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In article <01c044f0$1483ddc0$727889d0@daysix>, "H. E. Day"
<Pov### [at] aol com> wrote:
> There is only one drawback to this weapon, which is it's inability to
> function in a vacuum.
In that case, at short range you can just thrust backwards until your
enemy follows you into the trail of ions your thrusters leave behind.
You would quickly run out of fuel that way though...and this looks like
a ground-based vehicle.
Or fire rockets which leave a relatively dense trail of ions. Or just
use the lasers themselves...if they can ionize air to a high enough
degree to carry and direct an electrical current, they are probably
pretty powerful. (what portions of the spectrum are best absorbed by
air?)
Faraday cages might be a problem, you would probably want *some* kinetic
energy weapons. Bullets, high velocity rockets, something a bit more
effective than your beak.
--
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] mac com, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tag povray org, http://tag.povray.org/
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