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From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: How to handle missiles?
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 18:54:12 +0930
Gurth wrote:
> It might just work -- a missile with an impact fuse would fly through the
> tinfoil and miss the character (though you'd likely get burned because of
> the missile's exhaust at the very least :).
> A proximity-fused missile OTOH will blow up no matter what when it gets
> close enough to the target...

Aren't all radar-guided missiles proximity fused?

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