Message no. 1

From:	Jonathan Hurley <jhurley1@************.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Thorshot defense (Was RE: Dunklezahn's Will, revisited)
Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:08:38 -0400

On Sunday, August 17, 1997 14:24, Mike Bobroff[SMTP:AirWisp@***.COM] wrote:

> The AM system could have installed in their wardheads multiple warheads,
this
> way it could take out multiple warheads. Another idea is to put an EM
> (electro-magnetic) generator into the missile, the object not to strike
the
> Thors, just screw up their gyro's enough to put them off course by some.
>
> Mike (Airwisp)
>

Nice idea, except that the Thor "warhead" is an unguided, or only slightly
guided system. I doubt it has any gyros, or anything else that would be
affected by an EM pulse. However, your hypothetical warhead will stop a
Thorshot. The only way to get a "dangerous" electromagnetic pulse is by
nuclear warhead, which if detonated close enough, will vaporize the
incoming Thorshot. (Look back through the logs (Last year AFAIK) for the
reasons an EMP device will have to be nuclear.)

That's why I chose an Air elemental, despite the guidance problems.
Movement power will guarantee a miss, if intercepted fast enough.

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Jonathan Hurley (mailto:jhurley1@************.edu)