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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
For whatever meta-reason, in the early Buck Rogers comics, the Mongols were armed with 'disintegrator rays', while the American guerilla resistance used 'rocket pistols' instead. The latter fired shells with integral rockets that boosted them up to speed in flight.
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That was the way it worked in the original Phillip Knowlan novel too but the rockets weren't guided.
You see the same sort of split in Doc's Spacehounds of IPC but the humanoids of the Galilean moons used rockets for stealth reasons.
Not only was their no radar but their were no IR sensors either. Their enemies the Jovians used lots of beams though. No FTL in Spacehounds either of course.