[gurps] [Vehicle] TL8 "Pigeon"

[Troy Guffey]

DataPacRat wrote:
>
> Sample scenario: A sub-flock of, oh, 1,000 Pigeons at the weapon's Max
> range, approaching at their maximum airspeed, Dodging every turn...
> how many will survive to reach the weapon emplacement and blow it to
> smithereens, and how many Pigeons will be destroyed for the investment
> put into this particular anti-Pigeon weapon?


My first wild-assed guess:
A TL8 6-barrel 20mm gatling very-long-barreled firing
High-Explosive-Proximity-Fuse automatically aimed by a millimeter-wave
computer-controlled fast-aim mount.  (Using the suggestion that RoF is 
20xbarrels)

RoF 120
KE Dmg: 21d
Range: 1509/6171yds.  (4527/18513ft)(0.857/3.5miles)
Acc: +18
EWt: 180lbs.
SS: 20
Power: 7.2kW
Cost: $14250
WPS: 0.6
VPS: 0.004
CPS: $1.2

HEPF: 1.5d[2d]  0.9lbs. $6
I'm not sure how that transforms into a 'kill radius'.

A Pigeon will take 58.77seconds to cover the guns range, during which time
the gun can punch out 7052 rounds.   For a 1000 member flock, this gun could
award each Pigeon as many as 7 rounds.  (Assuming zero time to aim, and
ending up at the mouth of the barrel.)

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