StickyFoam

From OPU Wiki

• Common Metals Cost medium
• Rare Metals Cost none
• Area of Effect small
• Range medium
• Rate of Fire high
• Concussion Damage none
• Penetration Damage low

Description

Plymouth's StickyFoam weapon is a low-velocity projectile weapon firing a non-metallic warhead. The warhead is a two-compartment bi-chemical system that discharges on impact. The shells are stored in the magazine empty, and are filled from separate tanks only when they are in the firing chamber. The mixing of the two highly reactive liquids produces a rapidly expanding glob of aerogel. Aerogels are extremely light, open-cell foam materials with cell sizes in the nanometer range. They contain materials that are solid, but seem little more substantial than smoke. While most aerogels have little mechanical strength, StickyFoam is laced with ultra-strong carbon Buckytubes, 600 times stronger than steel. The foam disintegrates after a short period, but while it remains intact, a vehicle covered with it will be completely immobilized.