Re: How not to design ships

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:02:23 +0100, "Paul J. Adam"
<news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The big worry - mostly theoretical for us - was lots of HE shells with
HCN mixed in to kill anyone who didn't mask up and eat the filters of
those who did, then with more HE mixed with GB to kill or incapacitate
those who hadn't suited up and/or changed filters.

One of the things that struck me was the the level of overhead
required to make CBW work effectively; I was suprised to discover how
low-viscosity agents (the only ones really likely to be used by a
theoretically-advancing GSFG) could be diffused by wind, evaporated by
sunshine and washed down the watershed by rain. Given good NBC
protection and access to the vehicles, I still thought good old
fashioned shrapnel from conventional was a bigger risk.

Not that the old Cold War model of abstract operational military
deployment is relevant these days, though.

Gavin Bailey
--

"To get a college degree, you must run a gauntlet of communist
professors." - Stuart Grey
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