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Ships have mounted secondary batteries since the introduction of torpedo boats, and these have only gotten bigger since the introduction of aircraft.
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In addition to the Lens, laser generator and thermal hardware you mentioned, the escort will need it's own power source, propulsion, avionics, and crew. I'm still not convinced that ships will only have one weapon system, even if a laser requires extra hardware, it's still cheaper to mount that extra hardware than to build a whole separate ship to serve as an escort. So you say that point defense is best handled by craft mounting smaller pellet guns and capable of more rapid rotation? Sword battleships and dagger escorts? I also reply to comments on older posts as promptly as I can. I enjoy answering these questions, and never hesitate to do the same in the future. Instead of an 'anti-submarine destroyer' today, we'll have an 'anti-missile destroyer'. A 'destroyer' can pop up from the evolution of a warship designed only to destroy incoming missiles. Therefore, you might have a warship entirely dedicated to mounting a huge laser, and another equipped only with defensive weapons. In other settings, you can easily open up the supply of uranium and have Casaba Howitzers slash warships to pieces of thousands of kilometers away.ģ) As explained in 'A Constellation of Warships', specialized spacecraft are the best way to design them. On the level of modern nuclear weapons, and there's some politics behind the scenes: uranium is strictly regulated, and all warships use low grade thorium for fuel. and you end up with a particle beam weapon.Ģ) In this setting, casaba howitzers are very expensive. This means you can only use small quantities. It would burst apart under the magnetic pressures of acceleration, unless you held it very still. When we compare it to the 1:1 mass/charge ratio of an electron, an ionized pellet is not really comparable. They suffer from the square-cube law, meaning that the surface area they present decreases in proportion to their volume as they get bigger. Ionizing the pellets will provide an extremely poor mass/charge ratio. The pellets will not be limited by their Curie point, but will have instead the much more robust limit of melting temperature. No part of this site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, reposting, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without express written permission of the author.1) The coilguns will have to rely on inductance. All images on this site are Copyright (c) 2009-2013 by John J. I appropriated the term "handheld" for small personal computers in my setting in tribute to these books.Īll text on this site is Copyright (c) 2009-2013 by John J.
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The Tales of Continuing Time, a fantastic, underrated science fiction series by Daniel Keys Moran comprising Emerald Eyes, The Long Run, The Last Dancer, and The A.I. Rare Earth, Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee.
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The Veil War, the great American goblin invasion novel, where the Lord of the Rings meets Tom Clancy, in serial form Global Greengrants: Dedicated to a just and sustainable world.
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How to Build a Laser Death Ray, the science of weaponized lasers by Luke Campbell Kiesche III, who suggested I set up this site. , the website of Christopher Weuve - naval analyst, history fanatic, wargame designer, Macintosh zealot, book evangelist, and science fiction geek. SFConSim-l, a Yahoo group devoted to realistic science fiction. Chung, which looks at how to build stellar empires using real stars.Īd Astra Games, publisher of Attack Vector: Tactical, the most realistic starship combat wargame ever devised. Abandon your cloaking devices, ye who enter here. Atomic Rockets looks at how space flight works, and how space warfare may work. Atomic Rockets, a truly incomparable hard science fiction site by Winchell Chung, who also drew much of the art on this site.
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