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Post by morrigi on May 8, 2017 18:34:21 GMT
For my lightest and cheapest ships (>1000 tons, >7 million credits), I use a 4-5mm aluminium whipple shield, 1-2 centimeters each of amorphous carbon and boron in that order, and a ~1cm spider silk spall liner, along with 5-10mm of steel or diamond reinforcement on the nose. At an angle, it's enough to protect against light projectile fire and flak or the occasional low-yield nuke, but obviously not so great against lasers, sustained fire, or actual heavy weapons. Then again, they're dirt cheap and fast.
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Post by Enderminion on May 8, 2017 18:43:58 GMT
sustained fire, or actual heavy weapons. I have problems with both of those
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Post by morrigi on May 8, 2017 18:51:26 GMT
sustained fire, or actual heavy weapons. I have problems with both of those That's what bigger ships are for.
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Post by Enderminion on May 8, 2017 19:20:33 GMT
I have problems with both of those That's what bigger ships are for. I have 12 kilotons of armour between my crew modules and enemy fire, four METERS thick because the turret disappears when killed
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Post by gedzilla on May 8, 2017 21:11:53 GMT
I have big nose guns on my dreadnoughts, they get popped by barrel damage and then remaining shots travel through the non-resistant armour under the turret, it took FOUR METERS of boron (radshield) to stop the stream of HV 1g projectiles for the duration of the bombardment Context plz ?
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Post by Enderminion on May 8, 2017 21:42:42 GMT
I have big nose guns on my dreadnoughts, they get popped by barrel damage and then remaining shots travel through the non-resistant armour under the turret, it took FOUR METERS of boron (radshield) to stop the stream of HV 1g projectiles for the duration of the bombardment Context plz ? 40kt turret with 100cm of A-carbon and max grapogel barrel armour, on the front of a ship with 180mm of compsite armour (diamond->A-carbon->Rubber->Boron->P-Aramid)
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Post by morrigi on May 8, 2017 21:46:04 GMT
That's what bigger ships are for. I have 12 kilotons of armour between my crew modules and enemy fire, four METERS thick because the turret disappears when killed How much does that monstrosity cost and what's the TWR?
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Post by Enderminion on May 8, 2017 23:46:12 GMT
I have 12 kilotons of armour between my crew modules and enemy fire, four METERS thick because the turret disappears when killed How much does that monstrosity cost and what's the TWR?
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Post by demetrious on May 9, 2017 1:00:39 GMT
I have big nose guns on my dreadnoughts, they get popped by barrel damage and then remaining shots travel through the non-resistant armour under the turret, it took FOUR METERS of boron (radshield) to stop the stream of HV 1g projectiles for the duration of the bombardment The new update is the hero that pointy ships deserve. Image links are broken, so click this so I can show off.I call this the "Lancer." Under that Vanadium-Chromium steel armored nosecone - and directly behind the 30cm thick Osmium plate - is a stonking huge cannon. Of course, building a ship that can actually lay a centerline gun on target properly (like stock drones do) still isn't possible (it gets close enough to open fire, but can't really hit anything. Not sure if this is my fault or not.) The solution, of course, is a guided projectile - and since qswitched now lets them launch, you don't have to be lined up perfectly to fire them, either! Thus this ship totes a truly massive 280mm cannon that kicks out flak micro missiles at close to 2km/s. You do still get the occasional direct hit to the barrel (directly through the firing port in the armor,) which can knock it out, but it's rare, and if I spent a little more mass on armoring the barrel it'd be rarer still. It's currently covered with a few millimeters of kevlar to frustrate lasers, but a few centimeters of boron might be superior. Even if the barrel is hit, the entire cannon module is just noted as [DAMAGED] rather then vanishing into the ether like guns with their turrets destroyed, so follow-up shots that get through the firing port won't plow right through your ship.
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Post by Rocket Witch on May 19, 2017 20:31:14 GMT
The NASA paper you linked is one I hadn't seen before, either - it really elaborates on the quality of aluminum mesh (I suppose nickel-phosphorus microlattice would be our closest equivalent) In stock, yes, but see here if you like: childrenofadeadearth.boards.net/thread/998Much, much cheaper than microlattice.
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Post by lorentz99 on Oct 7, 2017 16:47:53 GMT
What is the utility of reinforced carbon -carbon on stock missiles? Is it anti-nukeflash armor? Or is it kinetic too?
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Post by tukuro on Oct 7, 2017 18:19:39 GMT
What is the utility of reinforced carbon -carbon on stock missiles? Is it anti-nukeflash armor? Or is it kinetic too? It's sort of everything combined: Anti-flash, anti-laser, anti-kinetic. But it is expensive, and in terms of mass ratios it doesn't do any of those particularly well compared to the alternatives.
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Post by nikolayag on Oct 17, 2017 14:50:28 GMT
I have one question Why does nobody use boron filament?
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Post by Enderminion on Oct 17, 2017 15:56:14 GMT
I have one question Why does nobody use boron filament? most of this thread is pre-nerf which means boron filament was not a thing and normal boron had 3.1GPa of yield strength
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Post by nikolayag on Oct 17, 2017 16:39:30 GMT
I have one question Why does nobody use boron filament? most of this thread is pre-nerf which means boron filament was not a thing and normal boron had 3.1GPa of yield strength So now boron filament is basically old boron?
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