From: kenw@kmsi.net   
      
   Presumably sci.space.tech is not exclusively about propulsion.   
      
   Has there been much study about what kind of weaponry a manned spacecraft   
   might carry with near-current technology?  There are a number of things   
   that would work in vacuum that wouldn't work in air.   
      
   Possibilities that come to mind include xray lasers, particle (e.g.,   
   electron/positron) beam weapons, and electromagnet slug launchers (tiny   
   antimatter slugs?).  Clearly conventional atomic weapons would be far too   
   massive to be accelerated very much, and therefore pretty useless.  A   
   disk-shaped vessel might have counter-rotating circular particle   
   accelerators.  Hmmm...   
      
   Has much been done on this?  I don't recall it being discussed here.   
      
   /kenw   
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