Honestly, I don’t really see the value in fancy missiles. The vast majority of them will be killed in transit anyways, so the more that you can toss at an enemy the better. The cheaper they are the better. I see missiles as a wave trying to overwhelm defenses.
The only real advantage is any stand off, i.e. bomb pumped lasers. Personally, I’d think about seeding a few of them into a wave of KK missiles. The EMP’s will confused Point Defense sensors, and you might get a few hits with them ;-)
Take with a very large bag of salt...http://www.pravdareport.com/science/tech/19-11-2014/129079-atomic_bullets-0/The decay heat makes sense, but the half life issue isn't even mentioned.100 to 700kg of TNT per bullet is quite a bit, but not total Armageddon.Presuming this kind of thing is possible with Traveller tech levelsthough, I think it would be a nice half-way on the "kinetic vs nuclearmissile" discussion in another thread.Load up a MetalStorm style mechanism with these, put the whole thingin a nuclear dampner box, and when it closes on the armored target,begin firing a steady stream of Cf bullets. As they hit the targetship, they'll carve a path inward for the shipkiller warhead still inthe missile.Say a 10x10 array of barrels, with 10 bullets per barrel. That'd givearound 0.5 kilotons of "carving" potential. Figure maybe 25% actuallyhit usefully, and that's still 0.1kt of carving.On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Mark Urbin <xxxxxx@urbin.net> wrote:I can still think of several PCs in games I've run who would want one. One
of my favorite lines from the Ringworld books comes to mind for the more
sane (for various ratings of sane) PCs that would carry a 25mm handgun with
a Cf round. This isn't an exact quote, but close "The problem with having a
anti-matter missile, is that the crew looked for the first excuse to get rid
of it."
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:35 PM, George Herbert <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:
The current consensus is that tiny Cf micronukes will be more like 20-25mm
projectiles but might well work. The ones that small would be horribly
dangerously radioactive to have around and would decay rapidly barring
convenient damper tech like Traveller supposes...
George William Herbert
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