[TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens

[Garry Ward]

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From: "Joseph Paul" <josephnjody at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens


> Is that good, bad or what? I don't have access to the books right now.

Well, most other TL 7 human armors have an AV of 1.

TL9 Combat Environment Suit has a AV of 2.

TL 10 Battle Dress has an AV of 4.

The wheeled ATV has AV of 2

So, the TL 7 elephant comes out about even with a human in TL 10 Battle 
Dress.

Garry
>
> Joseph Paul
>
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> >Subject: Re: [TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens
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> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >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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