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was fun talking about it, would have loved to test out these ideas and see what happened, i still think that steel/water/more steel thing would improve armoring more than same weight in only steel, would cost in volume though, but big ships have plenty of that. edit assuming a 2 inch steel/12 inch ...

Whelp... When a debate feels like an attack, it's time to end the debate. For the record, such isn't my intent. I simply answer what's tossed out with the facts I dig up, and conclusions drawn from them. Over the course of my research, I've had a grand time in that I've learned a lot about subjects ...

1. You can only disperse so much. Those arrays are heavier and larger than you might think, and take up space and power. You have only so much space in a hull that isn't built to arbitrarily huge dimensions, and multi-hundred pound warheads cause fairly massive blasts, the shockwaves being quite abl...

So, a lot of ground to cover regarding both preconceptions and misconceptions in this whole armored warship/battleship debate... First off, the idea for dispersed communications, hull antennae, and radar kites. Building antennae into the deck and railing really doesn't solve anything, in terms of sh...

I'll work out a character sheet on Sunday, methinks.

Edit: Or fate might have had me busy. Still interested... Just a busy month. >.<

Edit Zwei: There... Hope you like her.

Where can I find a summary of the basic premise, if any? And might there be room for a Mizol operator?

JQBogus wrote:I've had that happen one time too many as well. So I've taken to copying any long or involved posts to clipboard before hitting 'submit'.

Broke the padded room... I'll try again tonight, and follow suit in that habit.

*Twitches* After more than an hour of answering every single point in detail, complete with analasys of the impact energies and comparative velocities involved, my entire post was EATEN when I hit submit. >.< Sorry folks... But repeating that effort is not worth it. All I can say is that we don't mi...

Might it be possible to defeat the level of armor being talked about by creating a tandem warhead? The first element is a shaped charge, which melts a hole in the armor plate, thus creating a weak spot. The second element is a pointy hardened steel shell filled with high explosive, which pushes thr...

Bojangles: Ballistic steel as Structural material? yeah, that should work... and on kevlar linings, those are known as spall liners, there to stop spalling(pieces of your armor breaking of inside the vehicle and killing you), not shrapnel. but on the armor stopping ASM's, riddle me this, how does a...

Also, this foam you mention... What is it comprised of? How is it applied without interfering with the ships workings? Is it pre placed? Sprayed at the first sign of incoming fire? How is there enough time for coverage between the warhead going off at a close enough range to be dangerous to start w...

sen: sadly the idea is not really a good one, big guns need a big platform, especially if we are going with modern high velocity cannons, the recoil on those is bloody murder, and development costs to build new guns(and turrets) will cost...well an arm and a leg anyway so why not build a big ship w...

Now see... A modern version of the Erebus is about what I'd picture as a useful application for whats being discussed here... Not Big Ship, Big Armor, Big Guns, but rather an effective, comparatively compact warship fitted with a single twin turret of heavy guns, and a supporting brace of missiles, ...

the rest: the iowa-class was a great machine, but yes, it's time has passed, i was talking about a NEW ship based on the concept of the BB, what kind of new technology could we apply to this 'obsolete concept'. do we have a need for a 'big guns' platform? in most war scenarios i can come up with it...

JQ, Nemo: Bingo.

JQ: it was the idea of those weapon platforms carrying nukes, on cost effective bombardment, boom/$(non nuclear) nothing beats a BB even today. and if the 'BB concept' was scrapped, why did the iowa class gat called back to duty for damn near fifty years(first launched 43, last combat mission 91).....

fredgiblet wrote:You're describing the Historians. You can look at how the Loroi dealt with them.

Fair enough. Suppose I'm splitting hairs in my own head.

How would the Loroi (broadly) react to a nation/empire/organization too powerful to be easily dealt with via intimidation, that wasn't looking to wipe them out or swallow them up? Both in their current crisis, and in a situation where they were not engaged in total war? For simplicity, assume that s...

Hamilton was respected in the spacer community as a top professional who operated his ship and crew at a very high level, and over his long career he made many first-jump system explorations (being the first to jump into an unexplored system is a dangerous business) and was involved in several succ...

Even so you can in dark on momentum and get so close there response time cut in half. Why Psi abilities null thanks to preprogram unmanned drone attack craft. I think these points have been covered before (repeatedly), but to reiterate... Even a "dark" ship will still emit plenty of heat just from ...