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 levels though, I think it would be a nice half-way on the "kinetic vs nuclear missile" discussion in another thread. Load up a MetalStorm style mechanism with these, put the whole thing in a nuclear dampner box, and when it closes on the armored target, begin firing a steady stream of Cf bullets. As they hit the target ship, they'll carve a path inward for the shipkiller warhead still in the missile. Say a 10x10 array of barrels, with 10 bullets per barrel. That'd give around 0.5 kilotons of "carving" potential. Figure maybe 25% actually hit 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 >> Sent from my iPhone----- >> The Traveller Mailing List >> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml >> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com >> To unsubscribe from this list please goto >> http://archives.simplelists.com > > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.urbin.net/ > Projectile ejection of sparkling effusion designed to > quench thirst through nasal orifices bodes ill for finish > of cyberspace interface device. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com > To unsubscribe from this list please goto > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=vSy3NFQJMSbZKrzPfC3XucFBsUCMtKrI
