[TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens

[Garry Ward]

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From: "Joseph Paul" <josephnjody at sbcglobal.net>
To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <tml at travellercentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens


>
> ><snip>
> Carrying capacity is also influenced by shape. We are not very well suited
> to carry much at all. Four footed creatures are often better at it. I 
> can't
> find anything on rhinos as they haven't taken to domestication well enough
> to measure a carrying capacity. I have a reference for Indian elephants at
> 545kilos but I think that is very conservative. The surface area of an
> Indian elephant is 20 meters square found here:
> http://idiosynchrony.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/a-half-wet-elephant/  That 
> is
> 27 kilos of armor per meter square. Anybody got some ideas on how much 
> armor
> that is in CT/MT/G:T terms? Humans have about 1.8 meters of surface area 
> and
> 60 lbs (27.2 kilo) is about the max we can carry for armor without serious
> degradation of performance. That comes out to about 15 kilos per m^2. So 
> in
> this case the big animal gets an edge it looks like.

Well, according to FF&S, TL 7 light composite armor masses 7,000 Kg (7 
metric tonnes) per cubic meter or 0.007 Kg per cm^3.

So, 27 Kilos at 0.007 Kg/cm^3 would be 3,857 cm^3.

so, roughly a third of a square meter, about 4 square feet, one centimeter 
thick, giving a armor rating of 4.

Garry
>
> Joseph Paul
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