On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 11:28:28AM -0700, Zan Lynx wrote: >Don't forget that you only get some of that. The other part is going >into the firing platform. This is all proportional to the mass of the >platform and the projectile of course. And I suppose the cannon could be >recoil-less with proper gas venting.
Yes, for this first approximation I'm assuming m_launcher >> m_projectile. If you're talking about a killer satellite that's basically a gauss cannon, ammo storage and power supply, that won't be true. But it's worth bearing in mind how dV-cheap a Thor-type system can be... R _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
