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That makes it useless as a decoy. You would be better off firing more real torpedoes. Decoy MALD-J (red). Speed like an airplane. Size as at medium-range missiles. http://www.defencetalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/F-16-MALD-J-jammer.jpg Why is such a concept in space is not possible? If you mea...

In order for a decoy to resemble a torpedo, it has to have a bright exhaust plume that looks like a torpedo's, and it has to accelerate at 40-60G. Decoy mimics the ship. And accelerates like a ship - 24-30 g. Yes, the decoy is likely to be as expensive as a real torpedo. How many external nodes sus...

hi hi A subsonic engine gunboats easier... What does the speed of sound has a duration of jamming? I don't know, you tell me. I'm sorry. Correctly: sub-light engine. Decoy has a stock of fuel like a torpedo. Then it is a torpedo. Any observer can calculate it's mass and fuel capacity just by lookin...

hi hi I would suggest that it is a mistake to consider a gunboat an independent fighting unit. It is probably a mistake to think about any Umiak ship as an independent fighting unit, rather than a part of the fleet as a whole. There are no cost savings by moving a component off of one ship in the f...

This will not require additional machinery, just the normal nav system + FTL engines.

This will not require additional machinery, just will require additional machinery.
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A jump... Type-KT Strike Cruiser Deadweight Mass: 400 kt 17 000 tn = 4.25% . Weight remaining heavy ships is about? According to my calculations on the basis of the frequency by one Umiak heavy ship, there is one light destroyer, plus one gunboat or a heavy gunboat. This is less than 6% by mass of ...

hi hi FTL travel and sub-light travel are largely separate systems in the Outsider universe. Other than establishing the ship's real-space trajectory, the thrusters are not the same system that allows them to go faster than light. The mothership does need to have a bigger FTL drive than a ship of t...

Thank you! Prospective users of Russia will be easier.

FTL drive the mother ship does not need to accelerate 30+ g gunboats. The advantage of light destroyers with FTL drive - the ability to conduct autonomous mission? Then each of them has to have its own system of interstellar navigation. On the state of the art electronic warfare makes the detection ...

Emphasis during the observatory to search for alleged planet.

hi hi I can't even tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing. Everything has an opportunity cost. Gunboats, armor, screens, plasma canon, radiators, reactors, engines; everything. However, when it comes to armor, larger ships have better surface area to volume ratios, and have a desirable efficiency....

hi hi You don't get anything for free in space. If you want to bring along smaller ships that don't have engines, you have to build a bigger engine on the ship that is carrying them. Big ship torpedo carries only a few thousand tons. If the ship has a mass of 300 000 - 500 000 tonnes, its maximum l...

You use light destroyers so that you can chase the enemy without slowing your medium and heavy ships. Gunboats require the medium and heavy ships to stop while the gunboats are docking. Gunboats are like short-range drones. You can get a very large force very quickly when you use them, but if you n...

Why do they need? Two heavy gunboats have the same firepower with greater acceleration. They do not need a super-light engine, so they are cheaper. Because ships with their own jump drives can do things gunboats can't do, such as scout the next system or chase an enemy into the next system with oth...

hi hi Umiak HXLR Torpedo. >snip< Yes, that is roughly the acceleration profile of an Umiak torpedo. I still fail to see how that is relevant to sensors and communication lag at the speed of light. At the end of a full burn, the HXLR torpedo has about 38.4 seconds of communication lag between the fi...

Ok, that's nice, I guess? Not sure how it is relevant to the discussion in any way. Umiak HXLR Torpedo. Max Acc. (g) - 50. Fuel Endurance at maximum thrust - 80 min. The distance traveled by the end of acceleration - 5760 Mm. It is the distance of firing without a pause in the engine. By accelerati...

They are, but they can't operate on their own. To deploy the gunboats you'd need a light cruiser or other ship with tow points. So a light destroyer group would be useful for recon or other missions where deployment in force is not required. Light destroyers good reconnaissance missions. What do th...

Complex thought, I'll try to translate them correctly. The real dividing line between a light destroyer and a heavy gunboat is that the latter has a docking linkage, and the former doesn't. So a light destroyer needs to be able to carry enough fuel and supplies to operate on its own without a mother...

icekatze wrote: As far as sensors and vessels with that much energy output go, one light minute is very close range.

The guidance system long-range missiles (AIM-120C) of aerial combat is arranged so.
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/aim-120.htm

As light destroyers with a small reserve of fuel operate in conjunction with a main ship?

Creating a new project of the ship - a difficult task. Umiak have so many resources that they spend to create an individual project for each ship?