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Post by RiftandRend on Oct 1, 2017 3:58:17 GMT
I lied, here is submission 5. One Jezzail Micro-missile can kill a gunship, and produces a score of 1849.7. This missile is designed to abuse a flaw (or what I assume is a flaw) in your equation that massively increases score the fewer missiles you use compared to insignificant improvements in score from mass/cost optimization. Mass: 27.3 kg Cost: 123 c Launch Configuration: 1 in 1 wave. |
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Post by SevenOfCarina on Oct 1, 2017 20:10:47 GMT
RiftandRend, I'll update the leaderboards as soon as I get back to my computer, which hopefully should be by tomorrow. Logging five entries via phone is a complete PITA. Also, the equation was designed with that intention. It uses salvo size as the denominator due to the fact that using fewer missiles vastly increases the chances of the entire salvo missing or being shot down by point defence. Plus, I would think that your Jezzail micro-missile actually invalidates your own point, considering that it blows the rest of your missile designs out of the water in terms of cost and mass-expenditure to kill a Gunship.
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Post by RiftandRend on Oct 2, 2017 19:05:14 GMT
I have a version of the Fimir that can kill a gunship with 18 kg and 100 credits between 2 missiles. Cheaper and lighter, but only has ~1/2 the score of the brute force and un-optimized Jezzail.
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Post by newageofpower on Oct 9, 2017 20:40:40 GMT
Not quite an entry, but this is my clone of tukuro's delightful looking Hunter missile.  50% more dV, 20% cheaper, 100% cooler looking ;p Unfortunately, I'm uncertain it's actually better, because of the need to keep the Lithium Hydride molten during storage and transport requires I abandon the easily-molten aluminum skin and use something less reflective to lasers. My other picks turned out to be either too expensive, too massive, or insufficiently cool looking (especially when contrasted with the darkness of space) so I resorted to Sillicon outer skin with Aerogel inner layers.  The missiles are intended to be deployed from an nuclear-electric drone bus (WIP) with up to 50km/s dV. The missiles will be stored in an backgammon-esque pattern, where the LiH will be kept molten by diverting a small amount of 1200K coolant coming from a secondary coolant/radiator set, indirectly hooked up to the reactor radiators. Graphite aerogel filling will keep the cryogenic Flourine fuel insulated from the molten fuel. Less than 500 KW of power and 50kg of subcooling should be sufficient to prevent the cryofuel from boiling off; the main difficulty will be arranging the piping of the thermal management system without interfering with rapid ammunition loading/unloading and simultaneously remaining compact. (Realism is hard, mk)  Ugly-ass MPD bus for carrying 1000 of these babies is complete as well; though I question the realisticness of liquid sodium in a 3000K reactor. My liquid Aluminum reactor weighs and costs more than twice as much, although it occupies less than 40% of the volume.  |
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Post by RiftandRend on Oct 19, 2017 20:58:33 GMT
I just made a missile for the Micro-Missile challenge, and thought to post it here too. The Yaka Micro-Missile should get a score of 3891 for the difficult challenge. Mass: 20.8 kg Cost: 33.7 c Launch Configuration: 1 in 1 wave. |
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