| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: GMC Banshees |
| Date: | Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:57:17 +0200 |
>mil-spec weapons have trouble with the Banshee's armour. The problem
>is not so much that the Banshee can't be destroyed (it can given
>enough firepower) but that a) the firepower needed is expensive
>(check out the cost of decent mounted AAMs) and b) a single banshee
>can chew 3 or 4 of anything else into dogfood in no time at all.
That last bit is exactly the idea of modern missile systems: say your
missile costs a million bucks. Use it to blast a 100-million aircraft out of
the sky. The use the same launcher again to kill some more 100-million
dollar aircraft before your launcher is bombed. Wuite cost-effective, I
would say, considering that you could also do it by risking
100-million-dollar aircraft of your own.
But we were talking about ground-based weapon systems (well, ground/air
based -- the Banshee flies): I think I read somewhere (in a McDonnell
Douglas brochure, I think) that the expected kill ratio for AH-64 attack
helicopters is (was) in the order of 90:1 -- that is, you destroy around 90
enemy vehicles for every AH-64 you lose...
The Banshee should be virtually indestructible to PCs I think, unless they
_need_ to destroy one to do whatever you want them to do...
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