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> On Jun 29, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Ethan McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> At many velocities, a spun projectile also helps prevent the penetrator from skidding along sloped armor and skipping away instead of penetrating a depth that's within its theoretical capacity. Apparently, the gyroscopic effect somehow tends keep the nose of the penetrator against the armor.

There you go - shooting drill bits at people again. :)

But, again, at high enough velocity (16 inch gauss cannon?) the thing is going to become a plasma penetrator pretty quickly after impact.

In space combat at ranges predicated in traveller, I'd assume that the projectiles need some sort of terminal guidance.

But then again I think that horse is already dead - short ranged anti-missile BB guns as I recall.

IMTU lasers are very short ranged anti-missile weapons until TTL 14 or so, when gamma ray lasers become viable.

Thus any ship to ship laser is already TTL 14.