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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 31, 2017 19:58:06 GMT
Yeah, the old lightweight lasers were in the 250 megawatt range, basically because that's all the power generation I could spare. The newer ones are limited only by how much power I can pump through an aluminium dielectric mirror. She actually has oodles of power to spare that I don't entirely know what to do with except possibly posit much lower efficiency on my MHDs. Regarding the glow, I have no idea. That's just what CDE decided it should look like and I rather think it's pretty so I'm running with it, I think it's because CDE treats fusion engines as combustion engines. Either way it's not a huge deal for me. In canon the exhaust from a fusion drive is emitted mostly as gamma rays while the blade armature and radiators glow brightly in the visible spectrum. Thanks for all of your help so far guys.
All I need now is a blast launchable missile with a decent fragmentation warhead suitable for hitting ground Target and I think I am done designing space ships.
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Post by Kerr on Aug 31, 2017 22:52:51 GMT
matterbeamI've found an way to utilize those pesky neutrons in DT reactions. Using Lithium-6 When Lithium-6 is hit with an neuton it releases 4.8MeV in form of tritium and an alpha particle. These particles will travel at 0.03c. Example an 2.5g pellet with 1g DT and 1.5g lithium-6. The DT is ignited by an high power laser pulse. 10% burn efficiency. 34GJ are released, 27,2GJ of which are neutrons. 1.2e22 14.1MeV Neutrons. If one in ten neutrons is able to induce fission we will get 1.2g fissioned lithium. Creating an 10,8kN Impulse. The DT reaction itself only created 522N because only 20% of the product produce thrust. At a rate were we burning 1kg/s DT every second the resulting thrust should be 113.2 MN.
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Post by Kerr on Aug 31, 2017 23:19:58 GMT
Yeah, the old lightweight lasers were in the 250 megawatt range, basically because that's all the power generation I could spare. The newer ones are limited only by how much power I can pump through an aluminium dielectric mirror. She actually has oodles of power to spare that I don't entirely know what to do with except possibly posit much lower efficiency on my MHDs. Regarding the glow, I have no idea. That's just what CDE decided it should look like and I rather think it's pretty so I'm running with it, I think it's because CDE treats fusion engines as combustion engines. Either way it's not a huge deal for me. In canon the exhaust from a fusion drive is emitted mostly as gamma rays while the blade armature and radiators glow brightly in the visible spectrum. Thanks for all of your help so far guys. All I need now is a blast launchable missile with a decent fragmentation warhead suitable for hitting ground Target and I think I am done designing space ships. Can you be a bit more specific with your request? "decent"? Ground targets with or without atmosphere? |
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Post by ironclad6 on Aug 31, 2017 23:33:20 GMT
Yeah, the old lightweight lasers were in the 250 megawatt range, basically because that's all the power generation I could spare. The newer ones are limited only by how much power I can pump through an aluminium dielectric mirror. She actually has oodles of power to spare that I don't entirely know what to do with except possibly posit much lower efficiency on my MHDs. Regarding the glow, I have no idea. That's just what CDE decided it should look like and I rather think it's pretty so I'm running with it, I think it's because CDE treats fusion engines as combustion engines. Either way it's not a huge deal for me. In canon the exhaust from a fusion drive is emitted mostly as gamma rays while the blade armature and radiators glow brightly in the visible spectrum. Thanks for all of your help so far guys. All I need now is a blast launchable missile with a decent fragmentation warhead suitable for hitting ground Target and I think I am done designing space ships. Can you be a bit more specific with your request? "decent"? Ground targets with or without atmosphere? Actually I think I can probably write around it, but in any case if you want to take a shot at it, this is what I need. A weapon to fill the gap between ultra-precision kinetic kill weapons and multi-megaton nukes. Needs to be able to hit targets under an earth-thickness atmosphere but not cause an intolerable level of environmental damage. This is for the Adamists so a certain, low level of mess is acceptable where it wouldn't be for the Systems Commonwealth. FOOF, liquid lithium and the like are for sure out of consideration. Needs to be cheap enough to throw around at will. Needs a delay timer and a reinforced nose allowing it to penetrate at least ten meters of packed earth and thirty centimeters of 20000 PSI fiber reinforced concrete before detonating. Needs an explosive yield equivalent to at least 900kg of TNT and not exceeding 2000kg. Octanitrocubane would be the ideal explosive. Fragmentation effect will come from pre-fragmenting the inner case, underneath the reinforced nose and doesn't need to be modeled for our purposes here. Need anymore detail? I think you just really like the puzzle. Thanks for your help man. I just discovered blast launchers and I'm having a whale of a time. |
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Post by Kerr on Aug 31, 2017 23:47:31 GMT
Can you be a bit more specific with your request? "decent"? Ground targets with or without atmosphere? Actually I think I can probably write around it, but in any case if you want to take a shot at it, this is what I need. A weapon to fill the gap between ultra-precision kinetic kill weapons and multi-megaton nukes. Needs to be able to hit targets under an earth-thickness atmosphere but not cause an intolerable level of environmental damage. This is for the Adamists so a certain, low level of mess is acceptable where it wouldn't be for the Systems Commonwealth. FOOF, liquid lithium and the like are for sure out of consideration. Needs to be cheap enough to throw around at will. Needs a delay timer and a reinforced nose allowing it to penetrate at least ten meters of packed earth and thirty centimeters of 20000 PSI fiber reinforced concrete before detonating. Needs an explosive yield equivalent to at least 900kg of TNT and not exceeding 2000kg. Octanitrocubane would be the ideal explosive. Fragmentation effect will come from pre-fragmenting the inner case, underneath the reinforced nose and doesn't need to be modeled for our purposes here. Need anymore detail? I think you just really like the puzzle. Thanks for your help man. I just discovered blast launchers and I'm having a whale of a time. Ah, ok. I thought you wanted a missile which can attack ground troops, if you have them. I did once calculations for a rod of god. Should take an hour or two. It's 1:46 in the morning so let's start. Some more challenges though? Also finally I can use some internet on my PC now. I hate typing on mobiles. |
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Post by Enderminion on Aug 31, 2017 23:55:35 GMT
no Flourine per-oxide? then you can use Clorine Tri-Flouride, only 9001% more dangerous! the Nazi's called the stuff N-Stoff and would have used it for flamethrowers and chemical attacks
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Post by Kerr on Sept 1, 2017 0:26:58 GMT
no Flourine per-oxide? then you can use Clorine Tri-Flouride, only 9001% more dangerous! the Nazi's called the stuff N-Stoff and would have used it for flamethrowers and chemical attacks Or I just drop a ton of that stuff and watch how it slowly burn through the ground. |
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Post by Kerr on Sept 1, 2017 0:51:52 GMT
Can you be a bit more specific with your request? "decent"? Ground targets with or without atmosphere? Actually I think I can probably write around it, but in any case if you want to take a shot at it, this is what I need. A weapon to fill the gap between ultra-precision kinetic kill weapons and multi-megaton nukes. Needs to be able to hit targets under an earth-thickness atmosphere but not cause an intolerable level of environmental damage. This is for the Adamists so a certain, low level of mess is acceptable where it wouldn't be for the Systems Commonwealth. FOOF, liquid lithium and the like are for sure out of consideration. Needs to be cheap enough to throw around at will. Needs a delay timer and a reinforced nose allowing it to penetrate at least ten meters of packed earth and thirty centimeters of 20000 PSI fiber reinforced concrete before detonating. Needs an explosive yield equivalent to at least 900kg of TNT and not exceeding 2000kg. Octanitrocubane would be the ideal explosive. Fragmentation effect will come from pre-fragmenting the inner case, underneath the reinforced nose and doesn't need to be modeled for our purposes here. Need anymore detail? I think you just really like the puzzle. Thanks for your help man. I just discovered blast launchers and I'm having a whale of a time. Can you increase the mass limit? An bunker buster needs mommentum to penetrate deep. |
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Post by ironclad6 on Sept 1, 2017 0:56:03 GMT
Actually I think I can probably write around it, but in any case if you want to take a shot at it, this is what I need. A weapon to fill the gap between ultra-precision kinetic kill weapons and multi-megaton nukes. Needs to be able to hit targets under an earth-thickness atmosphere but not cause an intolerable level of environmental damage. This is for the Adamists so a certain, low level of mess is acceptable where it wouldn't be for the Systems Commonwealth. FOOF, liquid lithium and the like are for sure out of consideration. Needs to be cheap enough to throw around at will. Needs a delay timer and a reinforced nose allowing it to penetrate at least ten meters of packed earth and thirty centimeters of 20000 PSI fiber reinforced concrete before detonating. Needs an explosive yield equivalent to at least 900kg of TNT and not exceeding 2000kg. Octanitrocubane would be the ideal explosive. Fragmentation effect will come from pre-fragmenting the inner case, underneath the reinforced nose and doesn't need to be modeled for our purposes here. Need anymore detail? I think you just really like the puzzle. Thanks for your help man. I just discovered blast launchers and I'm having a whale of a time. Can you increase the mass limit? An bunker buster needs mommentum to penetrate deep. You're quite right. I need a weapon for attacking troops fighting from deeply dug in positions, possibly operating ASAT weapons or otherwise being bothersome to myself or troops on the ground. Precision kill capabilities are handled by ~2kg kinetic kill munitions. As for mass limit, I don't think I set one but ideally I'd like it to be as small as possible. If anyone else feels like putting in a suggestion I'd likely go for the smallest weapon that met the specification. |
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Post by Kerr on Sept 1, 2017 1:00:28 GMT
Can you increase the mass limit? An bunker buster needs mommentum to penetrate deep. You're quite right. I need a weapon for attacking troops fighting from deeply dug in positions, possibly operating ASAT weapons or otherwise being bothersome to myself or troops on the ground. Precision kill capabilities are handled by ~2kg kinetic kill munitions. As for mass limit, I don't think I set one but ideally I'd like it to be as small as possible. If anyone else feels like putting in a suggestion I'd likely go for the smallest weapon that met the specification. Sorry, I've misread the 2000kg Octa. |
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Post by ironclad6 on Sept 1, 2017 1:03:56 GMT
@ OMGitsWTF No problem. I'd be open to a really heavy duty kinetic penetrator but I think the Adamite's would probably go for something high explosive just for shits and giggles. Thus far the Systems Commonwealth has no comparable munition. I'm in two minds as to whether I should create one or whether it's the kind of inherently dirty, messy business they instinctively back away from.
I'm almost finished with my orbital assault drop pods. This has all been unexpectedly fun. I'm working on a highly compact rail/coil gun so my drop ship can act something like a Hind gunship. Get in, drop off troops and then support them with direct fires while they're on the ground.
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Post by Kerr on Sept 1, 2017 1:55:57 GMT
@ OMGitsWTF No problem. I'd be open to a really heavy duty kinetic penetrator but I think the Adamite's would probably go for something high explosive just for shits and giggles. Thus far the Systems Commonwealth has no comparable munition. I'm in two minds as to whether I should create one or whether it's the kind of inherently dirty, messy business they instinctively back away from. I'm almost finished with my orbital assault drop pods. This has all been unexpectedly fun. I'm working on a highly compact rail/coil gun so my drop ship can act something like a Hind gunship. Get in, drop off troops and then support them with direct fires while they're on the ground. With the explosive variant I ended up with something very similiar to GBU-57. Something similiar to an god of rod won't work in atmosphere. The acceleration is just too low. Sorry, but I don't want to work out Aerodynamics to get optimized shapes for maximum terminal velocity. If you want I can present you some stats for rods from god that you launch with spaceship or long range missiles. Something different I could help out? I have an 8km/s 8kg missile lying around. I can give it an solid fuel if LiH-Fl is a problem. |
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Post by ironclad6 on Sept 1, 2017 2:00:55 GMT
 Sir Galahad launches Orbital landers during acceptance trials. March 2470. |
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Post by ironclad6 on Sept 1, 2017 2:02:07 GMT
@ OMGitsWTF No problem. I'd be open to a really heavy duty kinetic penetrator but I think the Adamite's would probably go for something high explosive just for shits and giggles. Thus far the Systems Commonwealth has no comparable munition. I'm in two minds as to whether I should create one or whether it's the kind of inherently dirty, messy business they instinctively back away from. I'm almost finished with my orbital assault drop pods. This has all been unexpectedly fun. I'm working on a highly compact rail/coil gun so my drop ship can act something like a Hind gunship. Get in, drop off troops and then support them with direct fires while they're on the ground. With the explosive variant I ended up with something very similiar to GBU-57. Something similiar to an god of rod won't work in atmosphere. The acceleration is just too low. Sorry, but I don't want to work out Aerodynamics to get optimized shapes for maximum terminal velocity. If you want I can present you some stats for rods from god that you launch with spaceship or long range missiles. Something different I could help out? I have an 8km/s 8kg missile lying around. I can give it an solid fuel if LiH-Fl is a problem. Do you have a chat client. We might want to stop cluttering up the boards with minutiae? |
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Post by Kerr on Sept 1, 2017 2:09:00 GMT
With the explosive variant I ended up with something very similiar to GBU-57. Something similiar to an god of rod won't work in atmosphere. The acceleration is just too low. Sorry, but I don't want to work out Aerodynamics to get optimized shapes for maximum terminal velocity. If you want I can present you some stats for rods from god that you launch with spaceship or long range missiles. Something different I could help out? I have an 8km/s 8kg missile lying around. I can give it an solid fuel if LiH-Fl is a problem. Do you have a chat client. We might want to stop cluttering up the boards with minutiae? I usually use gmail to discuss such things. We could also chat via "Messages" festure of this forum |
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