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The Mag Force 7 Book 1 - Knights Of The Black Earth, The
Atec Февраль 16 2008 20:07:53
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. "Maybe inside Corasia, behind enemy lines. The Army doesn't like sending new armored vehicles onto enemy-held planets, in case the Corasians capture the tanks and learn from the new technology."
"What's the tank's condition?" Xris asked, unperturbed. A former Army major, Jamil could have been given the very latest in technological wonders and would still have complained about it for days.
"Not bad," Jamil conceded grnmpily. "If you don't count the fact that something's leaking all over the deck, probably because the tank's engine hasn't been tuned up since the fall of the monarchy twenty some-odd years ago. The engine is a solid-fuel job, they get clogged up real easy. Which is why no one's using solid-fuel engines anymore, not even the Corasians.
"The Devastator--and I use the term loosely---does have a forty-thousand-bhp engine driving the tracks and blower motors for hover operations. But the air-cushioning unit has been shot to pieces. The tracks are caked with some sort of gunk that's been left to harden and might come off if we took a thurmaplasma torch to it."
Jamil paused to draw breath. "Now for the good news. The tank's gun is in great shape--a seven-cm particle cannon."
"That is good." Xris nodded.
"Yeah. The bad news is we can't fire it. But it sure will look impressive. The power link from the gun to the engine is completely rotted away
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