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- From: kabreuer@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Breuer)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
- Subject: Re: BTECH: high-speed hovertanks
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:02:10 GMT
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
- Message-ID: <1h5idiEINN8q9@uni-erlangen.de>
- References: <1992Dec16.050447.8538@u.washington.edu>> <UfA1JJG00WB2AKTLoA@andrew.cmu.edu> <BzFnr5.Kz3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec18.090829.17309@netcom.com> <STXTNT.92Dec21104833@rs733.GSFC.NASA.Gov>
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- >>"(_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...."
- >>]-[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
- >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
- Come on, why trust hi-tech which might just fail on you? _You_ on the
- planet are sitting on the bottom of a gravity well. _I_, sitting in orbit
- can simply chuck (cheap, low-tech) rocks at you. Looots of rocks...
-
- Ciao,
- Klaus
- ---
- Klaus Breuer, Rudelsweiher Str. 6b, 8520 Erlangen, Germany
- ** "Geez, I need a _reason_ for everything?" --Calvin
- ** "Should I or shouldn't I? -- Too late, I did!" --Hobbes
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