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From: IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject: Future Weapons (was: Re: SR Future Products and Such)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:55:22 -0400
At 14.42 08-12-99 EDT, you wrote:
>Ha Ha Tobias ... somehow I think the person was referring to the concept of
>Railguns in general, not man-portable....at least, I *hope* they weren't
>referring to Man-Portable... ;-P

Actually, one of the CP Chromebooks has a believably sized man-pack
railgun. It's about two meters long, and need to be used with either a
fixed mount or from a special gyro harness.
Rare and expansive in SR, but I can see some of them being introduced for
field testing.
Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"'Impossible' is a term used by those of little imagination or intelligence
to describe that which they can not understand."

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