Condottiere said:Kinetic kill predates GURPS; the moment the weapon designer realizes how open ended the velocity of a large missile can be in Fire Fusion and Steel.
Predates TNE as well. It was one of the early conversations on the TML. I know they showed up in SF before that as well.
In Fact it is in response to perfect point defense against KKMs that Bomb Pumped laser Missiles as a concept was born.