(Nuclear) Explosively Formed Penetrator Designs Thread

I vaguely recall trying some thinner plates earlier on and getting poorer results, but it was hardly extensive testing. I'll try using thinner penetrators and seeing how it goes.

It seems to have good accuracy - I've used this design (fired through what is essentially the stock 13.0 MW 286mm coilgun) repeatedly with good results. The missiles target the enemy power source the majority of the time, which yields good results.

The usual effective range of the missile out of the coilgun tends to be around 50 kilometers. I just successfully tested ranges over 100 km using bursts of missiles with manual coast orders, though the effect on the target was reduced - it took 63 missiles to disable a stock laser frigate, though approximately two thirds of those decided to ignore the coast order and deactivate themselves before reaching the target.

Isnt the F/H2 fuel system 19:1 ?
Mind, I have been seeing some odd dV results from mismanaged fuel ratios.


Also I have noticed that rockets with many small engines tend to run out of dV very quickly.

to get a proper firing solution you need your gun to have a listed velocity as fast as the NEFP projectile itself.

About that - has anyone managed to measure a NEFP's velocity?

Honestly in this specific case I can't really be certain but I'm pretty sure at least some did, on the basis that I've tested launching single missiles that produced nuclear detonation flashes (confirming that the missile detonated instead of simply hitting the enemy ship) and in those cases the damage looks very similar. However when more than one nuke is launched the screen flashes white repeatedly which makes it impossible to figure out how many are performing as designed and how many are not. I had noted during the test that when looking down the ship from the rocket end it looked like the inner layers of armor were glowing, but I didn't screenshot it at the time. I can replicate the experiment later today with a single manually-detonated missile and make a more detailed analysis then.


Isn't that what it is right now?
And yes, these missiles do run out of dV rapidly. They'd probably have so little as to be useless if they weren't launched out of a coilgun. I'm sure there are many better rocket designs for this missile - as stated in the first post I had taken someone else's micromissile design and just scaled it up by using larger fuel tanks and increasing the number of rockets.

I hear some delicate components like reactors being used in nuke EFPs. That got me thinking, complex components(like launchers reactors etc) in the game are either "destroyed" or they are not, if something can be launched in an EFP, the game probably still thinks it's intact. Maybe you could launch another nuke in an EFP. Would someone like to try this and see if it works?

Basically you have two nukes, the one behind has small yield, but large activation range, while the one in front has high yield but smaller activation range.
So might happen is the small nuke sees the enemy ship first, it fires and launches the large nuke ahead.

Actually the biggest problem right now would be getting the stages to detonate in the right order. Right now they'll both wait until the missile is as close to the target as possible, which is the same point for both warheads (because they're in the same missile).

We would need a way to either delay the second warhead, or make the first go off prematurely (such as defining a stand-off distance, a "minimum range" at which the warhead will detonate immediately).