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Re: Jormungand Carrier Strike Craft
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 8 Oct 2004 02:18:44 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Niels Bugge wrote:
Speaking of nukes, what does Viking
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need those for? They have to be able to loot afterwards!
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BTW I think the gun looks fine as it is: A bit cluncky like a tankbarrel, but
perhaps you should add some smaller fast shooting guns: You have to spray a
lot in dogfighting and don’t want to miss with the only shot of a big slow
gun.
-NB.
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Niels, did the discussion of Vikings attract you to this thread? Crazy Danes. :)
Anyhow, as I love a good nitpick combined with technical discussions, I’ll
provide the elemental reasons why the fighter ought to be equipped with
nuclear-tipped missiles. Anything less energy-dense in the context of space
combat is a waste, as space is far too large for anything less powerful to be
even moderately lethal at realistic (IE: huge) ranges. Well, space fighters
themselves would be useless for several reasons under the known laws physics,
but we’ll leave that discussion for another day. At any rate, any nuclear
weapons used in space would almost certainly be enhanced radiation bombs
(“neutron” bombs, as the misnomer goes), as the manner of energy release in
conventional nuclear weapons greatly limits their range. Furthermore,
conventional nuclear weapons have been shown to be of minimal use against
armored targets such as battleships and tanks, and as such wouldn’t fair well
against massively protected spacecraft. Enhanced radiation devices were
initially developed for use in the nuclear anti ballistic missile systems, as
conventional (nuclear) weapons without an atmosphere to propogate their energy
would have a difficult time destroying incoming warheads and missiles. Enhanced
radiation weapons emit their energy in a spectrum much more applicable to use in
space and against armored targets.. I think that was slightly rambling and
completely tangential, but it is somewhat applicable to the original issue. :p
As for the gun, dogfights wouldn’t realistically occur in space, so any
discussion of gun design as related to realism is already baseless conjecture..
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| I just returned to town: (...) Yes off course! I would've started the faction myself, hadn't Chris beat me to it - at least I'd thought about doing it! It's probably good that he did, since I probably wouldn't get around to do it in ages... (...) It (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| Hi Chris Keep the models flowing, they’re getting better and better! You have some nice details going on with this one, but there’s a couple of things that bothers me: First of all it seems awfully thin around the cockpit (the cockpit takes a big (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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