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Message no. 1
From: Chris Yang <cyang@*****.UBC.CA>
Subject: Armor [was Re: Teflon]
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 22:59:01 -0700
On Mon, 23 May 1994, Stainless Steel Rat wrote:

>
> Ah, the age-old war. It's easier to make a weapon that can penetrate
> existing defenses than it is to come up with a defense against it.
> Shadowrun is kinda backwards as armor technology has advanced further than
> weapons technology.
>
Heh, maybe the next step in armor development is what they did with tanks
when they couldn't armor the things well enough...reactive armor :-)


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Chris Yang cyang@*****.ubc.ca
University of British Columbia cyang@******.ubc.ca
Dept of Botany
Message no. 2
From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Armor [was Re: Teflon]
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 13:02:49 -0400
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Yang <cyang@*****.UBC.CA> writes:

Chris> Heh, maybe the next step in armor development is what they did with
Chris> tanks when they couldn't armor the things well enough...reactive
Chris> armor :-)

Reactive armor is a specfic development to combat shaped charge explosives.
So now we're working on HVKKWs (Hyper-Velocity Kinetic Kill Weapons).

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Message no. 3
From: "C. Paul Douglas" <granite@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: Armor [was Re: Teflon]
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 10:27:40 -0400
On Mon, 23 May 1994, Chris Yang wrote:

> Heh, maybe the next step in armor development is what they did with tanks
> when they couldn't armor the things well enough...reactive armor :-)

That is kind of the way I look at the Gel Pack armor from FoF - except of
course it doesn't explode...
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