... listed below. ... is on my ... the Sun? ... optics ... laser. Your ... beam to 10x ... Actually, I think that was a supposition of Rick's. Another...
Might a side effect of that jamming with lasers discussion be that one could mask your drive signiture with a dedicated focused emitter pointing in the right...
The original message was posted by Bradford Holden. Data on how a shaped nuclear charge actually performs may be available but i somehow doubt it :) I would...
... Attractiveness is always relative. There are always going to be people in the lower quartile, and they will always be considered ugly. I think that there...
... Sounds like the "Casaba Howitzer" DEW project mentioned in Dyson's "Project Orion." A weapons followon to the "shaped" nature of the Orion pulse units. PO...
... I originally got this from two sources. First was the book "The Curve of Binding Energy" by John McPhee about Ted Taylor. Second was a discussion with a...
Winchel states the following on his space war page: "There won't be any EMP, unless there is a Earth strength magnetic field and a tenuous atmosphere present."...
aka "Neutron bomb". By gleaning various sources, I came to the conclusion that a conventional nuclear device upon detonation will produce roughly 90% of its...
... From http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1997_h/h970716u.htm A nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude releases some of its energy in the form of...
... 2100 ft/s is terribly slow for a modern tank gun. IIRC it's more like 1600 m/s. ... I don't have them bookmarked, but looking for details on the orion ...
FWIW, public domain numbers range from 1600-1700 m/s. Public domain projectile mass (for a slightly older 120mm bullet, not the current first-line) is ...
... [snip] ... Yes it was, though I never put it as elegantly as above! ... TNT. Indeed! It's not a coincidence, by the way, that AV:T katies deliver about 3...
... It's actually quite likely. Assuming the aperture is 3 meters, the emitter is 1 meter, and the effective focal length is 30 meters, you can fire down the ...
... as ... cost. ... Fair point! :) Hmm. Since you mentioned 20th c. naval guns, how do AV laser weapons stack up? The 8"/50 US "superheavy" shell of WW II...
... hole in ... spread your ... emitter ... Aha. So optimally you want to do what? Have your spot size just about match his main aperture, 3 meters or...
... 2700 lbs x 2500 ft/s (for a new gun, 2,425 for an average bore) with 40.5 lbs of HE for a 16"/50 gun. The HC shell is 1900 lbs x 2690 ft/s with 154 lbs of...
... ft/s ... The AP shell carries 7.1 damage points in muzzle energy. Treating the HE as equivalent to TNT, the bursting charge adds 1.5 damage points, for a...
Reference was made earlier about the possible increase in range of lasers compared to that put forward in AV:T; could the same principle apply to particle ...
... There seems to be the usual confusion here between "strategy" in the game-theoretic sense, and strategy as a branch of military art. While the restricted...
Yeah, my website has issues with folks outside of America and UK. The
price I pay, so to speak, for having a free web host.
I've uploaded a copy to the...
EMP from a nuclear detonation is caused by an intense gamma radiation outburst striking a material, which deflects the gamma ray. The deflection causes the ...
... fact ... True. What's lost *is* tactical gameplay, commanding gyrating spaceships in action. The ships may still gyrate in battle, but with few prospects...
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