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On Fri, 10/10/14, Freelance Traveller <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Naval Scout/Couriers Re: [TML] Why do those big ships carry so many fighters?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, October 10, 2014, 12:13 PM

 On Fri, 10 Oct 2014
 15:35:13 +0000, Bruce Johnson
 <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
 wrote:

 >On Oct 10, 2014,
 at 3:37 AM, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:

 >> Y'know,
 a jump 4 ship with jump 2 of fuel dont work too well.
 >>
 >> Its times
 like these I hate HGS :)

 >Drop tanks, lots and lots
 of drop tanks :-)

 Y'know, I always thought drop tanks were a
 bit underused in Traveller,
 given what
 seemed to be the economics. I can think of several issues
 that might account for this - most of which
 likely /wouldn't/ be issues
 for military
 usage, in the sense that "Dammit, we need the damn
 drop
 tanks; do what you have to".

 For civilian use, though, I
 think I pretty well summarize the issues in
 http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/tss/tss3.html
 - do I
 miss any glaring ones?

 --
 Jeff
 Zeitlin, Editor
 Freelance Traveller
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The canonical implementation of J6 Xboats was dependant upon the use of droptanks but info on that was, AFAIK, only present in the earliest TNS dispatches.
There was a mention of an 'accident' involving droptanks where a ship, civilian I believe, was destroyed when attempting a jump using droptanks.
I believe the program was then suspended & no further mention, that I'm aware of, was made of it.

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