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Post by dpidz0r on Dec 13, 2016 21:31:41 GMT
Actually, speaking of this tactic... I'm trying to wrap my head around how you plan an approach that starts nuking the enemy far enough out they can't reach you with long range lase or kinetics that doesn't leave you eventually thrusting away from them. I mean, yeah - sure - as long as you have deltaV to spare you can pick your engagements, and it takes a special kind of crazy to charge at you... Use really small pulse units? Downside of that is you don't really get effective blinding or harming of enemy sensors... Presumably you would have a secondary weaponized bomb unit for such situations. Either an NEFP or a true Casaba Howitzer. But why bother throwing bombs at them if you've got bomb pumped x-ray lasers? As far as I can tell from reading, we had that tech working in the 70s. Just release a handful of x-ray attenuating rods with each propulsion charge. Slap some small reaction wheels on them so they can fine tune their aim in the few seconds before the bomb goes off and you're good to go. I bet you could even pack a pretty dense cluster of them around the bomb to make good use of whatever parts of the detonation aren't hitting your pusher plate.
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Orion
Oct 16, 2019 21:59:00 GMT
Post by Pttg on Oct 16, 2019 21:59:00 GMT
If there's something CoaDE has taught me, it's that if your ship is close enough to the fight for it to matter which direction you're facing, you've already lost. unless you're multiple light-seconds away and getting slow-roasted with infrared lasers, there's not a whole lot that changing your facing can really do.
Instead, just launch your drones and stay out of the system.
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Orion
Oct 17, 2019 11:23:50 GMT
Post by dragon on Oct 17, 2019 11:23:50 GMT
As far as I can tell from reading, we had that tech working in the 70s. Actually, it never really worked. There was one incredibly dubious test that was not tried again. There are some doubts whether that is even possible.
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Orion
Oct 17, 2019 17:25:18 GMT
Post by AtomHeartDragon on Oct 17, 2019 17:25:18 GMT
PttgActually, if CoaDE is to be trusted, you can allow yourself pretty cavalier attitude towards CQB and maneuverability is the king.
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Orion
Oct 30, 2019 20:37:43 GMT
Post by Rocket Witch on Oct 30, 2019 20:37:43 GMT
Actually, it never really worked. There was one incredibly dubious test that was not tried again. There are some doubts whether that is even possible. You mean the mockup with conventional explosives? Can you elaborate on what's dubious about it?
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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Oct 30, 2019 20:50:37 GMT
There was also operation Plumbbob.
I don't know what is particularly dubious about it either - whether or not that cover exited the atmosphere or burned up makes no difference regarding lower bound of its initial velocity.
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Orion
Oct 31, 2019 0:07:40 GMT
Post by dragon on Oct 31, 2019 0:07:40 GMT
Actually, it never really worked. There was one incredibly dubious test that was not tried again. There are some doubts whether that is even possible. You mean the mockup with conventional explosives? Can you elaborate on what's dubious about it? I meant Grenadier-Cottage test. This sentence was specifically about bomb-pumped X-ray lasers.
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