Hi-Tech Anti-Tank Weapons

3 posts ยท Jun 29 1998 to Jun 30 1998

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.

From: Jerry Han <jhan@w...>

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:50:09 -0400

Subject: Re: Hi-Tech Anti-Tank Weapons

> Jeff Lyon wrote:
Crusade or
> the Mutineer's Moon series perhaps?

The latter. "Armageddon Inheritance"; the Hyper Mines of the Fourth Empire.

Mutineer's Moon series is very nice, if you can just suspend disbelief in
having intertialess ships the size of large moons swinging about.
(8-)  (And, no, this is NOT flame-bait.  (8-) )

J.

From: Jeff Lyon <jefflyon@m...>

Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 07:33:19 -0500

Subject: Re: Hi-Tech Anti-Tank Weapons

> At 05:50 PM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote:

Yes, it's probably the most...ambitious...series I can think of.

:)