Quick hyper in and out. I'll be missing for a while. But before I go... I'm rereading At All Costs at my friends request. I can't believe Giscard. Kzt thinks Kuzak was on crack? lol Well, Giscard must have been her supplier and he was doing his own supply. How did he or anyone else not suspect anything? It was the Salamander! Absolutely no ones skin was crawling?
Oh well, it's a rhetorical question.
Anyways...
It was called "Apollo," after the archer of the gods.
It hadn't been easy for the R&D types to perfect. Even for Manticoran technology, designing the components had required previously impossible levels of miniaturization, and BuWeaps had encountered more difficulties than anticipated in putting the system into production. This was its first test in actual combat, and the crews which had launched the MDMs watched with bated breath to see how well it performed.
Javier Giscard was wrong. There weren't twelve missiles in an Apollo pod; there were nine. Eight relatively standard attack missiles or EW platforms, and the Apollo missile—much larger than the others, and equipped with a down-sized, short-ranged two-way FTL communications link developed from the one deployed in the still larger Ghost Rider reconnaissance drones. It was a remote control node, following along behind the other eight missiles from the same pod, without any warhead or electronic warfare capability of its own.
Just a small question posed by some friends, and I promised to post it in the forum before leaving.
Has the Ghost Rider drones benefited yet from the increased miniaturization and gotten proportionately smaller? Can they?
