You'd need contragravity and frictionless shielding of some kind. Or a sufficently large EMP to knock out the electronic equipment during the descent.
----- Original Message ---- From: Onno Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:30:15 PM Subject: Re: [gurps] Stealthy shuttles > >Next Week: Probably a stealthy TL11 shuttle. > > Is there any practicable way of making a reentry vehicle stealthy in the > real world? I'd have thought that the ionisation phase would be pretty > obvious no matter what you make the vehicle itself out of... I doubt it. My bird uses reactionless thrusters for slow-but-quiet landings. Reaction drives could avoid a hot reentry, but only at the expense of a big drive plume. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
