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Re: Military spaceships classes and types
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Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:16:29 GMT
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> If there is already another standard for naming military spaceships, i
> would like to know it. Thanks.
As far as concerns LEGO Spaceships - there is no standard. Mainly because the
size restictions for even the smallest warship classification is larger than is
really build-able in LEGO.
A naval frigate is ~300 feet long. If we take 1 stud= 1 foot, then Dan Jassim's
Dragonstar is only 163 feet long. And crew size is also much less - with a
frigate having at least a hundred, while the Dragonstar has less then twenty.
A full sized Battleship (800 ft) would be 800 studs long, which is twenty feet
long! Definitely out of the scope of all but the largest collection.
So far, the best way of classifying LEGO spaceships is along two lines - first
by purpose (an escort vs. destroyer) and then by the builder's personal universe
(if they want it to be a dreadnought, then it is a dreadnought). Otherwise,
there is the classification of a 'SHIP' - meaning larger than 100 studs, then
divided into 'class' based on the length of 100. 100-199 is Class 1, 200-299
Class 2, so on and so forth.
On the subject of military classification, the Eastern Block has an interesting
dilema - our Kosmos Directorate is modeled on the Army rather than the Navy -
and therefore doesn't recognize 'ships' per se. Our forces are divided between
assault shuttles (like the Zhukov) and larger warcraft (like the Kalashnikov) -
and altho I will sometimes refer to them as ships, the term isnt actually
correct. It's just there isn't really a better term.
-lenny
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| "Lenny Hoffman" <lahoffma@*NOSPAM*ma...r.fsu.edu> wrote in news:Hvr0rH.184s@lugnet.com: (...) Far from me the idea of imposing a size restriction with the name. People who play LEGO without having tons of bricks (like me) could still call a ship a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.space)
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| I've wathed many military ships MOCs on brickshelf, and i wondered if there was a standard set of category to classify designs, like the marine navy. There are the obvious Carrier, Fighter, Bomber and Troop transport, but rarely have i seen a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.space)
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