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	Relativistic kill vehicle - Slider
		At these relativistic velocities the mass could carry immense amounts of kinetic energy, potentially several times that of its rest mass energy equivalent (ie, the amount of energy that would be released if its rest mass were totally converted into free energy).
		RKVs have been proposed as a method of interstellar warfare, especially in settings where faster than light travel or sensors are impossible.
		An RKV could theoretically be launched using any of the spacecraft propulsion techniques that are capable of accelerating starships to relativistic velocities, such as antimatter rockets or nuclear pulse propulsion (see also relativistic rockets).
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Relativistic_kill_vehicle (535 words)

	SG WMD - Information Codex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At these relativistic velocities the mass carries immense amounts of kinetic energy, several times that of its rest mass energy equivalent (ex: the amount of energy that would be released if its rest mass were totally converted into free energy).
		Furthermore, since the destructive effects of the RKV are carried by its kinetic energy, destroying the vehicle near an unshielded target would do little to reduce the damage; the cloud of particles or vapor would still be travelling at nearly the same speed and would have little time to disperse.
		RKV, are seen as weapons of desperation and are bad for the moral of the users citizens.
	24.68.246.90 /confed/codex/index.php?title=SG_WMD (345 words)

	Projectile - Free net encyclopedia
		Although blowguns use small darts, most types of guns and firearms hurl bullets, pellets, or shot made of a metal, usually lead, that are designed to deform and fragment inside a target, causing significant damage.
		Items like arrows, hand darts, and spears are generally tipped with sharp metallic or lithic artifacts called projectile points that allow them to more easily penetrate a target, although some types of arrows used for hunting are designed to stun or kill through shock rather than to penetrate.
		Compare the energy of TNT, 4.6 MJ/kg, to the energy of a kinetic kill vehicle with a closing speed of 10 km/s, which is 50 MJ/kg.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Projectile (674 words)

	Halo 2 Vehicle FAQ (Multiplayer) - IGN FAQs
		Not all vehicles are available for training, as the majority of Covenant technology has so far eluded the understanding of the best minds Earth has to offer.
		Cases where the operator has been killed or incapacitated from an explosion on the front armor facing (where the cockpit is) while the Wraith is left in working order have been recorded.
		Instead, random vehicles should be inserted for all slots to insure a variable and dangerous setting for the Banshee to operate in.
	faqs.ign.com /articles/565/565098p1.html (5412 words)

	Defense Horizons No. 18
		This is too long a flight time for an assured kill in a boost phase engagement of a Scud missile in which the times for detection, tracking, weapons coordination, and fire control are added.
		Although missiles have a finite fly-out time, their time to kill is near instantaneous and the kill is catastrophic.
		Other lethality mechanisms include a guidance and control kill, a warhead kill (the warhead is usually less vulnerable than the propellant), or an aerodynamic kill, in which the missile is damaged to the point that aerodynamic forces tear it apart.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/DefHor/DH18/DH_18.htm (7155 words)

	Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use - M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		vehicle occupied by one or more persons who normally have control over the movements of the vehicle, as in a manned aircraft or spacecraft, or who perform some useful function while in the vehicle.
		In general, the substances of which rockets and space vehicles are composed; specifically, the metals, alloys, ceramics, and plastics used in structural, protective, and electronic functions.
		radiation required to kill, within a specified period, 50 percent of the individuals of a group of animals or organisms.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/m.html (8270 words)

	Atomic Rocket: Space War: Weapons
		Relativistic weapons are kinetic-kill weapons where the projectile moves faster than 14% the speed of light (42,000 kilometers per second or so) although the real fun doesn't start until about 90% the speed of light.
		One of the iron rules of relativistic bombardment was that if you could see something approaching at 92 percent of light speed, it was never where you saw it when you saw it, but was practically upon you...
		Relativistic rockets, if their owners turn out to be less than benevolent, are both totally unstoppable and totally destructive.
	www.projectrho.com /rocket/rocket3x.html (16834 words)

	Don't Drive Uninsured or Unlicensed -- (D2U2)
		States are operating their vehicles without the benefit of a valid operator’s license.
		were killed; of the 3,401 teenage drivers, 1,664 (48.9 percent) were killed.
		All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) 2 1 0 1 1 4 7 9 15 22 39 31 22 6 3 3 166
	www.d2u2.org /unlicensedtokill.htm (11345 words)

	MILNET Briefing: Weapons for 2025 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Obviously, this might also be mountable in a rather large and armored vehicle as well for ground to ground assault, or the ABL device might be trained on ground equipment for air-to-ground assault.
		This assumes that the crew and vehicle are on alert status and ready to launch in minutes.
		Kill off all of Bin Laden's lieutenants and the man himself, and you might kill, for awhile, the groups ability to wage their war.
	www.milnet.com /pentagon/2025-Weapons.html (8932 words)

	Encyclopedia Galactica - Rh to Rn - Human (Anglic) Revised 351st Edition
		High tech equipment is banned on the planetary surface, and all transportation is by animal drawn vehicles or bicycle, with each of the five hundred nations essentially isolated from each other.
		Upon arrival in the target star system the launch vehicle orients itself to its target(s) and releases its payload of projectiles.
		The launch vehicle may either continue through the target star system, decelerate and be reused or be used as an additional weapon in its own right.
	www.orionsarm.com /eg/r/Rh-Rn.html (1327 words)

	FuturePundit: When A Single Terrorist Will Be Able To Kill Enormous Numbers
		The power of the individual to kill people in the past is nothing compared to what the power of the individual will be to kill people in the future.
		They might decide to kill us for our own good so that we can all meet their ancient alien friends who all want to bring us to meet Ramthra who is waiting for our souls 10 million light years away.
		And because every peasant did hold in his hands the means to kill a king that in turn meant that the rulers of England had to be careful to respect those whom they ruled while French rulers and ruled studied new ways to be oppressed.
	www.futurepundit.com /archives/001627.html (10730 words)

	Threats to United States Space Capabilities
		These mobile radars were originally designed to track reentry vehicles but, due to their low-cost and mobility, are attractive as space-based object trackers as well.
		All that is needed to conduct a nuclear attack is: a launch vehicle; an unsophisticated nuclear device, possibly bought on the international fl market; and a timer or command receiver to assure appropriate detonation altitude.
		As history has shown--whether at Pearl Harbor, in the killing of 241 U.S. Marines in their barracks in Lebanon, or in the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen--if the U.S. offers an inviting target, it may well pay the price of attack.
	www.fas.org /spp/eprint/article05.html (12666 words)

	Directed Energy and Fleet Defense: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Remotely piloted vehicles have the capability of locating and targeting naval forces operating in the littoral, and as with cruise missiles, the flight profiles of RPVs lend themselves to the dispersal of chemical or biological (CW/BW) agents.
		Equally important is the collaborative kill mechanism that exists when it is employed in conjunction with a high-energy laser.
		The implication is that tactical aircraft, unmanned air vehicles, or missiles that are used as delivery systems would be subject to attack by the very systems that they are intended to destroy.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/cst/occppr10.htm (18839 words)

	Astronomy and astrophysics
		The re-entry vehicle weighs just 130 kg and is being developed to carry cargo back from the International Space Station (ISS), but its inventors believe that it could also let astronauts bail out of the space station, or deliver robots to the surface of Mars.
		It may, however, be incorporated into the next generation of vehicles to replace the shuttle, and is one of several possibilities being considered by NASA.
		Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York, have spent 5 years searching for the quark-gluon plasma that is thought to have filled our Universe in the first microseconds of its existence.
	focosi.immunesig.org /astronomy.html (20667 words)

	Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned 'Crusher' Vehicle
		Electric motors embedded in each of the vehicle's six wheels are powered with a hybrid system that uses a turbo diesel generator to recharge its batteries.
		Bares predicts that vehicles like Crusher will first be used in convoy or support roles, then tactical roles.
		"The Crusher vehicle is a natural outgrowth of more than 26 years of field robotics research conducted at the Robotics Institute," said Randal E. Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science.
	physorg.com /news65522328.html (1026 words)

	Radical Universalism
		In some religions it is considered morally legitimate to periodically kill members of another religion merely for being members of a different religion.
		What we find when we comparatively examine the moral teachings of the world’s many religions is that, not only is there great diversity of opinion on the question of what constitutes morality, but in fact we often find ethical theories that lie in direct contradiction to each other, and are thus mutually exclusive claims.
		The moment a Relativist puts forwards the proposition that "There are no absolutes", the Relativist has just committed the error of herself making just such an absolute statement, which is then itself negated by the proposition that "There are no absolutes".
	www.dharmacentral.com /universalism.htm (14835 words)

	Space Transportation News of August 2000
		Ariane 5G's SCA provides roll control of the whole vehicle after its solid boosters have been jetissoned and 3-axis control to its upper stage during its boost phase and the release of the payloads.
		The Enterprise 4 is described as a 3-stage expendable vehicle using kerosene and liquid oxygen as propellant and will be launched from the new Virginia Space Flight Center in Wallops Island, Virginia.
		The thruster was part of the Attitude Control System (SCA) mounted on the Vehicle Equipment Bay and provides roll control to the whole vehicle after separation of the solid boosters and 3-axis control during upper stage burn and payload deployment.
	www.orbireport.com /News2000-08.html (6278 words)

	PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY: Playing God with High Energy Pulsed Weaponry
		A self-guided homing vehicle was tried using infrared homing, but the system failed several times in testing, was not successful in the 60’s, and was dropped.
		But, every shot will not result in a satellite kill, and to the extent that the designers have “hardened” their satellite, the satellite will last just that much longer, until, designs of the ASATs can be changed to overcome the hardening.
		It requires a system that can engage and kill threats with high kill probability and a deep magazine; that is easy to reload and therefore can fire almost continuously.
	www.gnn.tv /B10543 (12965 words)

	Curiouser and Curiouser: August 2006 Archives
		The soldier was walking to a convenience store when a sport utility vehicle pulled up alongside him and the driver asked if he was in the military and if he had been in any action.
		The U.S. military said a child aged between 10 to 12 years was killed in the fighting, but that the circumstances of the death were unclear.
		They returned fire, killing seven militants - including the Al Qaeda "facilitator", wounded one woman and one child between 10 and 12 years old was killed.
	www.mpturner.net /2006/08 (10122 words)

	Documents, Theses and Technical Reports: M-N
		The microwave sources discussed are the SLAC klystron, the relativistic klyston, the magnetron and the vircator.
		Kinetic kill vehicle intercept experiments were conducted at the Nevada Test Site to evaluate a vehicle's intercept performance under a realistic, zero g environment.
		A critical problem to resolve for the shipboard high-energy laser weapon systems is to develop a shipboard-compatible megawatt-class laser weapon at a wavelength where the atmospheric absorption is smallest.
	www.nps.edu /Library/Research/Bibliographies/DEWs/DEWbibTechRptsMN.html (4492 words)

	Kzin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After the Kzin telepath learned that the humans were unarmed and didn't even understand the concept of weapons, they attempted to kill the human crew in a slow, painful manner using an inductive heating weapon hoping to capture their ship intact for intelligence purposes.
		In order to delay the next attack, a Terran Bussard ramjet starship was utilized as a relativistic kill vehicle.
		Using iron slugs accelerated to 99% of the speed of light, it devastated a portion of the planet, killing humans and Kzinti alike and delaying the launch of yet another Kzin fleet against Earth.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Kzin (1355 words)

	DTC Technology Report - 29 December 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Referred to as a Storm II, it was manufactured from a Minuteman III second stage and a modified reentry vehicle from a Pershing II Tactical Missile.
		ACES will be able to simulate flight for most types of aerospace vehicles, including fixed-/rotary-wing aircraft, sounding rockets, ballistic missile targets and interceptors, space-lift and reusable launch vehicles, and nominal and anomalous debris hazards.
		ACES imposes no limitations on the composition of vehicles or scenario, on the rariety of possible scenario outcomes that can be simulated simultaneously.
	www.dtc.army.mil /ttr/ttr0012.html (8031 words)

	Ultra-Tech Slugthrowers
		HV machine pistols are assigned to pilots, vehicle crews and officers; these guns are as easy to conceal as a TL7 heavy pistol (-1 to Holdout), which also makes them the preferred weapon of assassins and Special Ops soldiers.
		If the gun penetrates a metal wall (the side of an armored car, for instance), it will cause fragmentation when it comes out, due to its high speed: 1d-2 cutting in a 3-yard radius.
		At TL7, lasers exist, but the energy requirements for a beam that will wound or kill a man at a distance are so enormous that an antipersonnel weapon could only be mounted in a large vehicle -- and it would still be less effective than a light machine gun.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/Roleplayer/Roleplayer23/UTSlugthrowers.html (2082 words)

	Fish Make Excellent Swimmers
		A ship may produce no passive emissions, except from where the engines are (which may be facing away from me.) Thus, every ship is a stealth fighter when it's not accelerating.
		For instance, a relativistic kill vehicle (RKV) is a missile accelerated to a significant fraction of lightspeed and then allowed to coast to its destination, weeks (or months, or years) away.
		Hopefully they will also be cheap (as if they're not, that's the one thing that could kill this feature.) They probably will be, though, as cheap is one thing Nintendo does very well.
	fishsupreme.livejournal.com (5698 words)

	Father Jack's: Transfiguration and Divinization
		Amidst a relativistic world of varying opinions, if we really search the Church's rich tapestry of spiritual wisdom, we can find varied helps to inspire us to love, experience, and worship God.
		Catholics can't be spiritual and homicidal (kill children thru abortion); they can't contracept and commune with the Lord; they can't be outlandish materialists and meld with the Divine Mind.
		Our "job" as Catholics is to respectfully challenge such relativistic views, to educate ourselves and others, and, as Vatican II says, to evangelize -bring others to Christ, "Who is the Way and truth and Life" (Jn.
	www.emmitsburg.net /grotto/father_jack/2004/transfiguration.htm (3356 words)

	NucNews - August 20, 2000
		The "kill vehicle" was programmed to use target data gathered from ground-based radars to maneuver itself into the path of the dummy warhead 140 miles above the Earth.
		The warhead-busting "kill vehicle" failed to separate from its booster rocket and passed harmlessly by the target missile.
		While most of the children were probably killed, there is reason to think that many of the younger children were adopted illegally by soldiers or taken to orphanages and later adopted by families in other countries, including the United States.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2000nn/0008nn/000820nn.htm (21425 words)

	The Ministry of Minor Perfidy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Quiet because it is following the wake of four relativistic kill vehicles that, though they left three years Earth time after the fleet, they arrived here only two weeks ago, local time.
		They would go from within a loud shout of C to nothing in a fraction of a second, imparting all of their energy of motion in a cataclysm more ferocious by far than the asteroid which once, long ago, ended the dinosaurs on far away Earth.
		Long, needle-like and fl, the RKVs had exhausted all but a tiny fraction of their antimatter fuel accelerating out from Earth’s fractured moon to travel twenty-four trillion miles at 92% of the speed of light.
	perfidy.org /index.php/C29 (5800 words)

	Weapons Technology
		The largest projectile weapons are asteroids (which have occasionally been used against planetary targets) and relativistic rocks, projectiles launched using drives that send them into their targets near lightspeed after a long period of acceleration.
		Beam weapons Doing damage using radiative energy or particles is much harder to make practical in planetary environments than projectile weapons, and the energy demands require either bulky generators or photonanotech "light batteries" that can convert stored energy directly into laser light.
		NCCV: Neutronium Core Combat Vehicle - Ultratech/Transapientech combat swarm weapon employing a stabilized neutronium structure and secondary femtotech weapons.
	www.orionsarm.com /tech/weaponry.html (970 words)

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