> From: [email removed] (Fiver Toadflax)
> Subject: (2456) re: Random thoughts on techni, arco and other ologies
>
> There are Mini-Guns in Traveller they are the 7mm Gatling gun (ref: Striker
> book 3) and can be designed using Striker AutoCannon rules. You just have
> to some how interpolate to a smaller round (smallest size capable using
> Striker is 20mm).
A slight problem with Striker is that very small bore/low power weapons
designed with it will be less effective than small arms from the lists. For a
striking (excuse the pun) example, look at the lowest power vehicle beam laser
in the MegaT vechicle design rules (The weapons in there were apparently
designed with Strikers system for designing weapons. If I remember is correctly
it draws half a megawatt and has a penetration of 5. Any designer that uses
this laser must be crazy, for a laser-rifle will be both more effective and use
less power....
And then we haven't thought of how a 4mm bore hypervelocity massdriver firing
KEAP ammo can get a penetration of 20 (the VRFGG).
So my recommendation for a relatively small very high rate of fire weapon with
resonable penetration would be a number of gaussrifles strapped togeather:)
- - -bertil-
PS. the dtek domain at chalmers will be exchanging old suns for new ones (No,
the Darrians are not involved:) so the common server *might* be down for a day
sometime soon. Don't be alarmed if something bounces.