On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:38 AM, Andrew Long <xxxxxx@me.com> wrote:

. . . with steering vanes and a camera, and a brain smart enough to decide something is a tank or not, so it doesn’t need to be target designated - you can drop them and tell them to “kill all tanks in this area”.

The wiki article also noted this, but went on to comment that it was doubtful if one could build a system smart enough which was also able to survive the extreme temperatures of meteoric reentry, at least for installation in a "vehicle" that small.

But for a larger (telephone-pole) scale weapon or at a Traveller tech level of 10+?

I would say, "Probably."

Richard Aiken

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