To: Centurion2000
A smoothbore would serve just as well in vacuum. No air to offer resistance, no gravity to tug at the projectile, no need for spin-stabilization.
To: Cloud William
One could also use the recoilless rifle principle. There wouldn't be a loader standing in back.
39 posted on
04/12/2003 10:14:54 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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