TNE question on Penatrator type weapons

I've been reading over the penatration rules for plama/fusion weapons (pg 297)
and am a wee bit confused.  It goes over how the penatration values are to
be used against vehicles.  It also says to use the constant damage values
against personnel.
  So what I'm seeing is that a TL 9 fusion rifle will cut through a suit
of TL F battle dress like a blowtorch through butter and deliver 9d6 to
the wearer.  If I'm wrong about this, please correct me.  An explanation
and a page number of the correct rules would be nice.
  I don't know if this made DW's errata list, but last night I noticed some
errors describing the plasma/fusion weapons.  It's the TL F fusion gun that
has the grav module to counteract the recoil (i.e. no Battle Dress required),
not the TL E fusion gun.  I'll post the other one when I get home and have
my book in front of me.

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Mark Urbin  Racal-Interlan   Boxborough, MA  These opinions are mine.
"Count Erskyll said nothing for a moment. He was opposed to the use of force.
Force, he believed, was the last resort of incompetence; he had said so
often enough since this operation had begun. Of course, he was absolutely
right, though not in the way he meant. Only the incompetent wait until the
last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use
anything, even prayer." -- _A Slave Is A Slave_ by H. Beam Piper
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