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- From: stxtnt@rs733.GSFC.NASA.Gov (Nigel Tzeng)
- Subject: Re: BTECH: high-speed hovertanks
- In-Reply-To: lunatic@netcom.com's message of 18 Dec 92 09: 08:29 GMT
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- <BzFnr5.Kz3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec18.090829.17309@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:48:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.090829.17309@netcom.com> lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) writes:
-
- >(Patrick W. Grady) writes:
- >
- > [robotic suicide aircraft deleted]
- > _
- >"(_ontrol? Agent E'6 here. We're definitely looking at a munchkin
- >invasion situation. Awaiting instructions. What's that? Please
- >confirm. You're sure that's necessary? Ok, we'll nuke 'em from
- >orbit...."
-
- Yeah right munchikin...like the precedent has not been set by FASA itself?
- Tell me clan tech isn't munchkin...
-
- >]-[ere's a simple solution: Just bring in some NAC/40's and target
- >those individual mechs from geosynch. The targeting is only about as
- >difficult as flying that robot controlled fighter around in the lower
- >atmosphere, lining up for a 3+ mapsheet run, and then homing in on a
- >single unit out of everythiing on the battlefield. Piece of cake.
- >Heck, and human pilots complain about having to land on the deck of
- >a carrier as it's being tossed about in the waves? Child's play.
-
- Maybe about as difficult as a Tomahawk (TASM) flying a 100 nm and
- hitting a ship through ECM and AA fire. Maybe about as difficult for
- a SLAM to go 50 nm and hit a window...maybe about as difficult for the
- US air force to reduce Saddams armor force to rubble...granted it
- takes M1s (and our corrolary mechs) to run in there and take the
- ground (and kill all the stuff you couldn't kill from the sky) but
- you're going to have to expect space/air assets to destroy anything
- real important that isn't hunkered down and well camoflaged.
-
- Hell...lose control of space bucko and there isn't any reason they
- can't dump a whole lot of crowbars on you...you can pretty much kiss
- mobility and morale goodbye...
-
- > / -= Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex (: /
-
- Nigel
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- Nigel Tzeng
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