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- From: wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Patrick Chester)
- Newsgroups: alt.war
- Subject: Re: Powered Body Armor
- Message-ID: <84010@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 00:20:35 GMT
- References: <Uf0bywu00iV4029adc@andrew.cmu.edu> <BxnFDr.GJC@news.chalmers.se>
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- In article <BxnFDr.GJC@news.chalmers.se> d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) writes:
- ]In article <Uf0bywu00iV4029adc@andrew.cmu.edu> js43+@andrew.cmu.edu (James William Stepanek) writes:
- ]>City fighting would also bee a good use,
- ]>considering that they would act as very small light tanks, and be
- ]>(hopefully) proof from sniper fire.
- ]
- ] The trouble is that snipers nowadays also use RPG-s and rifle grenades as
- ]seen on the Balkans and in the Caucasus. I don't think it is possible to make a
- ]powered body armour that is RPG-proof, and since RPG-s and similar are
- ]peanuts in comparision to the probably hideously expensive power armours...
-
- True, but then snipers w/o power armors are very fragile to 20mm HE....
- This assumes that the PA has good sensors and manages to spot the sniper
- in time. Also, if the PA has thrusters for long hops/short flights it might
- be able to get out of the way of a rocket fired from all but very short range.
-
- You also might consider that main battle tanks would be higher priority
- targets for missile sniper teams than powered armor units. MBTs are hideously
- expensive to PA units.
-
- My preference, of course, would be for larger units like Mobile Suits or
- BattleMechs. But those are a *long* way off (dammit).
-
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- Patrick Chester |----------------------------------------------------
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- Politically Incorrect | all your eggs." Robert A. Heinlein
- Future Lunar Colonist |"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us
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