Re: [TML] Cool new Traveller tech in production Jeffrey Schwartz 09 May 2014 13:00 UTC
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> > wrote: >> >> I rather think that firing a FGMP or PGMP kinda fubars wireless radio >> comms anyway. > Hmm... I'd agree that triggering an FGMP or PGMP would have a massive RF signature. I've now got this mental image of a thing like a "HARM" missile, but in a mine form. You'd stick it on the corner of a rooftop, with a view of the street, and when it picked up the indicated RF pulse, it would launch the attached RPG. The rest of the time, it'd just sit there, passive. > > Although it would still be fubared by the FGMP/PGMP, maybe an infrared link? > Particularly given that the distance involved would normally be conveniently > measured in single-digit inches. I could see something that interfaced to the armor's comm laser. > > Of course, a cord would be more secure, but also more difficult in use. I've > never been in combat, but I have been in combat training. Tying my *head* to > my weapon strikes me as a rather awkward bit of rigging . . . > Put the plug in the forearm of the suit :)