From: Jeff Lyon <jefflyon@m...>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:21:34 -0500
Subject: Re: Hi-Tech Anti-Tank Weapons
> At 04:34 PM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote: "Yeow" indeed. But I can't think which book it would be from. Crusade or the Mutineer's Moon series perhaps? > Or why not shoulder capable KE weapons, using gravity as the To borrow another page from Weber, there are the shoulder launched hyperkinetic missiles which use a baby versions of the gravity-based sublight manuever drives in both Crusade and the Honor Harrington books. In Crusade, they are "just" hyperkinetic. In HH, they use a miniature drive wedge which both accelerates the missile and subjects the target (or part of it) to several hundred gravities of shearing forces as it passes by. Even a near miss is deadly.