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Re: sword? hmm the BAT
Posted By: Otokam <ueno@its.caltech.edu>	Date: 1/7/00 3:32 a.m.
In Response To: Re: sword? hmm the BAT (Uncle Buck) > I do understand your point here, but I have to believe that the > tank was not manufactured by the humans after landing. My point > being that the initial purpose of the machine gun being mounted > on the turret in the first place (if brought on the ship) was > most likely for infantry as they are used in today's > conventional warfare. There is no doubt that if you run out of > SAMS then you use the next best thing available...but if I have > a SAM in one hand and a machine gun in the other...you can bet > that my first shot is going to be with the SAM. Yes. Very good point. So the BAT would have been designed to defeat the warmachines of enemies known to the UESC. The turret-mounted machine gun (and the manually aimed gun) would still be effective against slow-moving, low altitude craft. What would they be? Helicopters and gunships, as well as low-altitude bombers like the A-10 (somewhat relevant note: a French anti-runway bomb meant to be released from a low altitude is named the 'Durandal'). We haven't seen any human aircraft yet, but it's pretty likely that at least one of these kinds of aircraft will be in their arsenal. Since it requires less angular velocity to track high-flying objects, the hypothetical unwieldliness of the BAT's turret wouldn't affect the effectiveness of the FLAK cannon very much. Maybe I haven't read the newly released 'history' carefully enough, but it seems to me that there's still some 'gray area' between the time the Terrans and the Covenant made first contact, and the great war. Was there time for the humans to study Covenant technology? If so, did they have time to design and build countermeasures?

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New HALO screenshot	Corum Jhaelen Irsei	1/6/00 7:58 p.m.
sword?	Corum Jhaelen Irsei	1/6/00 8:01 p.m.
Re: sword?	Mark Levin	1/6/00 8:24 p.m.
Re: sword?	Otokam	1/6/00 8:28 p.m.
You're right....	Corum Jhaelen Irsei	1/6/00 8:33 p.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Uncle Buck	1/6/00 9:26 p.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Otokam	1/6/00 9:57 p.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Uncle Buck	1/6/00 10:10 p.m.
Pod on left side of turret...	Corum Jhaelen Irsei	1/6/00 10:19 p.m.
Re: Pod on left side of turret...	Uncle Buck	1/6/00 10:25 p.m.
B.O.C.	Timmy	1/6/00 10:41 p.m.
BOC = ...	Corum Jhaelen Irsei	1/6/00 11:00 p.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Otokam	1/6/00 10:46 p.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Uncle Buck	1/6/00 11:22 p.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Otokam	1/7/00 3:32 a.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Chris Huff	1/7/00 6:02 a.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Forensic	1/7/00 7:02 a.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Chris Huff	1/7/00 9:41 a.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Mark Levin	1/7/00 11:49 a.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	SiliconDream=PN=	1/7/00 2:40 p.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Dan Rudolph	1/7/00 2:52 p.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	SiliconDream=PN=	1/7/00 8:12 p.m.
Re: space combat	Mark Levin	1/8/00 12:49 a.m.
Re: space combat	SiliconDream=PN=	1/8/00 3:22 a.m.
Re: space combat	Dan Rudolph	1/8/00 3:36 a.m.
Re: space combat	Mage	1/8/00 5:07 p.m.
Re: space combat	Daft Shadow =PN=	1/8/00 6:44 p.m.
Re: space combat	Mark Levin	1/8/00 9:23 p.m.
Re: space combat	SiliconDream=PN=	1/8/00 11:04 p.m.
Re: space combat	Daft Shadow =PN=	1/9/00 12:00 a.m.
Re: space combat	SiliconDream=PN=	1/9/00 12:24 a.m.
Re: space combat	Mark Levin	1/9/00 12:49 a.m.
Re: space combat	SiliconDream=PN=	1/9/00 3:55 a.m.
Re: space combat	MacGuyver	1/10/00 11:17 a.m.
Re: sword? hmm the BAT	Lisan	1/7/00 1:31 p.m.
The OTHER edge of the Galaxy.	Dispatcher	1/7/00 8:27 p.m.
Ooops! Sph't Homeworld eh? (NT)	Dispatcher	1/7/00 8:29 p.m.
very different idea.. I like it NT	Mage	1/6/00 10:10 p.m.