(SG2] Orbital Insertion, try an egg carton

> At 11:30 PM 10/6/98 -0500, Thomas Barclay wrote:

        The U.S. Military is looking at using a semi-disposable squad
platoon landing package which is similar to the idea of an egg carton. This
glider system is released out the back of a larger transport and deploys an
air
foil.  Similarly NASA has designed a re-entry vehicle that is like a
small shuttle for emergency departures from the new space station. It employs
this same steerable air foil. Rather than having all the members of a platoon
scattered all over creation, the egg carton lander lands them all in one
location and they disembark. You will need a specialist as the pilot for the
lander. Cost
it out as a unpowered vehicle of proper size and give it re-entry
capability. Then buy a pilot for it and you are set. For landing location
place a marker and make a skill roll for the pilot with deviation according to
how far off he missed. If it lands in a bad place, then apply casualties
accordingly. Phil P.

Gort, Klaatu barada nikto!

> Phillip E. Pournelle wrote:

> For landing location place a marker and make a skill roll for

Hopefully this will work better than the disaterous attamps by the Russians to
do the same thing in the seventies.

I think we had something like that fifty years ago that could actually put a
full platoon or vehicle down in one place. Called them gliders!!:)

> Randall Case wrote:

> I think we had something like that fifty years ago that could actually

Or helicopters, in some later wars. This type of troop insertion is
covered by the SGII rules ("Landing Zones", pp.50-51), though there's no
provision for non-powered aerospace craft in the vehicle design section
:-/

Regards.