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

On 2 Feb 2016, at 19:49, Roger Bell_West <roger@firedrake.org> wrote:

> 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
> 

Nasty…..  :-)

Jon (GZG)