Meson guns for defense Christopher Sean Hilton (13 Sep 2016 16:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Jeffrey Schwartz (13 Sep 2016 16:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense C. Berry (13 Sep 2016 16:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson (13 Sep 2016 18:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Evyn MacDude (15 Sep 2016 05:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Kelly St. Clair (15 Sep 2016 10:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson (15 Sep 2016 19:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense C. Berry (15 Sep 2016 19:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Kenneth Barns (15 Sep 2016 22:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense W. Hopper (15 Sep 2016 22:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense C. Berry (15 Sep 2016 22:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Kelly St. Clair (16 Sep 2016 02:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Richard Aiken (16 Sep 2016 08:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Jeffrey Schwartz (16 Sep 2016 00:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense shadow@xxxxxx (16 Sep 2016 03:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson (16 Sep 2016 15:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Andrew Long (16 Sep 2016 16:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Jeffrey Schwartz (16 Sep 2016 17:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson (16 Sep 2016 17:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense C. Berry (16 Sep 2016 17:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Peter L. Berghold (13 Sep 2016 20:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Richard Aiken (14 Sep 2016 01:08 UTC)

Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson 15 Sep 2016 19:28 UTC

> On Sep 15, 2016, at 3:33 AM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:
>
>> Would swear that at least a back of envelope one was done during the
>> height of the FF&S design maddness. I also would suspect at least one
>> was done up with MT as well...
>
> Hell, I remember (at least) two creations by the infamous "Ditzie" - a very small meson *turret*, designed to function in the anti-hijack role (gets its targets from the internal sensors and can shoot anyone anywhere in the ship, right through anything in the way), and a meson *rifle* (predicated on the sensible assumption that such a thing requires no big heavy beam pointer, as the operator does that by aiming the muzzle - and about there is where sensibility and the rest of the design part company).

Rod eliot also designed “Barbie’s own CPAW’ and didn’t he make an Elephant-mounted energy weapon of some sort? MAy have been a meson device.
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