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To: RinConRon who wrote (354062)3/18/2010 1:26:22 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793964
 
I may be out of date on this, but I think the author got it wrong about the electric Gatling guns fore and aft.

You could be right. I added the comment about the guns. I just think that the most important defensive armament on a ship like that these days is the computer controlled Gatling's They could have been a box for 5 inches.



To: RinConRon who wrote (354062)3/18/2010 2:08:09 PM
From: Geoff Altman  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793964
 
20MM, I guess that qualifies as a cannon..... Not something you'd want to be on the wrong side of.....<g>

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