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Re: Combat strategies and tactics in space. Was: Jormungand Carrier Strike Craft
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:28:33 GMT
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If you are capable of long distance space travel, then you are capable of some
sort of FTL travel. FTL travel basically allows the battlefield to be as big or
as small as each side wants it to be. FTL weapons change the name of the game as
the battlefield could be a minimum of 30,000,000m in distance and still have
near instantaneous impacts. Without FTL weapons, the battles could take place
wherever the invading faction chooses. The battlefield, in space, will be
determined by the aggressor not the defender, as it is on Earth. With FTL, the
invader could blow passed any defenses in between them and their intended
target. So unless the invading faction chooses to do battle in open space rather
than around their intended target, open space battles won’t occur all too often.
Perhaps if some sort of web to slow down invaders existed then open space
battles would be more fervent. The best thing to do would be to construct both
ground-based and orbiting weapon systems to knock out invading space forces.
As weapons go, of course this is assuming that shielding does not exist, any
rapid-fire kinetic weapons that fire projectiles at near-lightspeed are far more
useful. Weapons utilizing heat could easily be negated or weakened by a super
high-temperature superconductor.
\//,DedmanWalkin
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