RE: OFFICIAL - GZG: Vacuum and zero/low gravity combat…?

Great thread, all kinds of folks are peaking out from the woodwork





Michael Brown
Sheridan, WY

mwsaber6@msn.com



  
> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 19:49:52 +0000
> From: roger@firedrake.org
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> Subject: Re: OFFICIAL - GZG: Vacuum and zero/low gravity combat…?
> 
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:47:08PM +0000, Jon Tuffley wrote:
> >So specialised "vacuum grenades" - hand or launched - would be
optimised for maximum frag effect, possibly with a smaller explosive
charge packed around with more, but smaller, fragments - designed to
cause multiple suit punctures (harder to patch several small holes in
time…) rather than necessarily to inflict major shrapnel wounds on the
person…..
> 
> Or, ideally, hitting the target dead-on and firing an AP jet right
> through his suit. Give it a bit of smarts and some cold-gas jets for
> manoeuvre, and it becomes something each squaddie can carry a few of.
> Lob it out over the enemy (x6 throwing distance on the Moon) and
> they'll remember why they ought to have put a roof on their bunker.
> 
> R
>