#SPACE WARFARE XV ROCKETPUNK MANIFESTO GENERATOR#

A modern AEGIS cruiser has some of the greatest diversity in armament in naval history. Ships have mounted secondary batteries since the introduction of torpedo boats, and these have only gotten bigger since the introduction of aircraft.

#SPACE WARFARE XV ROCKETPUNK MANIFESTO GENERATOR#

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. 1) The coilguns will have to rely on inductance.

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