Wanderer17

[quote]LOL I have no intention what so ever to disclose any kind of personal information to strangers in public media, sorry, it seems like you'll just have to belive me.[/quote] Uh no, you made the claim to being an Engineer, which is a regulated title limited by law to those who have a degree in Engineering and a License to practice it in some jurisdictions. Claiming to be an engineer when you are not is illegal in many jurisdictions, so I asked for a license number or a de

[quote]HelloJust for the record I want to say that I AM an Aerospace engineer. Wanderer17, You are being a jerk, a somewhat knowledgeable jerk but still a jerk, do not take every thing you read like a word from God and please drop the attitude, it's not helping.Having said that I would like to point Wanderer that your basic points are quite valid allthough I don't agree with your conclusions.Lets assume that you have your Nuke-Missle armed ships what is thier Delta-V? what is the missile Delta-

[quote]True its nowhere near doomsday people have envisioned. Death would only happen slower for the unlucky that would have to survive. Possible weather patern changes, colapse of a world economy at large, Massive political power vacums, and the enriched urainium/plutonium set loose by the explosions would filter through every part of the ecosystem.[/quote] Uh, no. First 40% of the ICBMs would just fail to launch anyway due to their unreliability. The Soviet Union would intercept a la

[quote]True its nowhere near doomsday people have envisioned. Death would only happen slower for the unlucky that would have to survive. Possible weather patern changes, colapse of a world economy at large, Massive political power vacums, and the enriched urainium/plutonium set loose by the explosions would filter through every part of the ecosystem.[/quote] Uh, no. First 40% of the ICBMs would just fail to launch anyway due to their unreliability. The Soviet Union would intercept a la

Chapter Two: Part Two Commander Johnathon Armady, from the Republic of France on Earth, was currently in command of Zulfiqar's Wing of three squadrons of F-2900 Star Fighters, though it would be more correct to label them as corvettes, each 'fighter' was 56.6 meters long, a wing span of 32 meters, height of 9.4 meters, speed of 500 Gs in space, 64,373.76kph in a planetary atmosphere, a range of one AU, all were armed with two pulse lasers and carried nine crew members.

[quote]@ wanderer,Only to add more to the discussion of space combat, I would like to ask questions regarding aspects of the nuke spamming you haven't covered in explanations. How much weapon grade enriched uranium/plutonium would you need to build all the warheads? As little as I know about enriched uranium, doesn't it take about 10x the ammount of raw uranium to make the refined ammount of enriched uranium? How many warheads would you have to have to allow you to spam them at enemies? 1,000 10

[quote]Same was said when nuclear weapons were first invented. All we got was a double edged sword that inflamed popultaions and caused paranoia all around the world[/quote] Unsubstantiated paranoia I might add. A full out nuclear war in the 1980s would at worst see the U.S. cease to exist as a viable political entity with its military destroyed and half to two thirds of its population killed, Britain would see its military wrecked, but as a common wealth it would still survive. <b

[quote]Let me start with just a simple statement.I am not by any means a credited physicist, engineer, or any kind of "rocket scientist".Now, as far as this discussion is concerned, you're all a bunch of morons for even trying to predict, SERIOUSLY, what will happen in the future, because no matter how much knowledge you retain about today's CURRENT standard of technology, and POSSIBLE future development, you are not taking into consideration that there may be NEW discoveries, UNFORESEEN circums

[quote]Wanderer17, I was reading your links and I found them very interesting and informative yet disturbing. Am I the only person that feels like these self proclaimed smart guy's solution to thier problems would be to fire nuclear missiles at EVERYTHING?[/quote] Yes, nuclear weapons are really just big incendiary bombs on a Planet and big neutron bombs in space. Excellent weapons for defeating your foe. [quote]The whole marine carrier getting blown out of "stealth" may be tr

[quote]You really are dense aren't you? You even quote my specific meaning and it flies right past you. I suggest you waddle back to Stardestroyer.net where your fellow flamers can prop up your obvious lack of debating skill.[/quote] Still being dishonest I see. [quote]Define "too much".[/quote] Packing enough lead or gold on a ship to protect adds mass that needs more fuel to move which in turn determines your range. Since the fighter must be recoverable, it needs fou

[quote] Who knows solar may be powering the engines like tie fighter ion engines.[/quote] Those are radiators, the Sun is a weak energy source and won't supply the energy the TIE needs.

[quote]if they have space fighter technology, you think they might figure out some way of hiding energy signatures? just throwin that into the mix[/quote] Won't work as the energy used to do that would be detectable. Hell using RCS thrusters is detectable for 92,000,000 miles or 1 AU which is the distance from Earth to the Sun with today's technology.

[quote]Which part of "I wasn't referring to the design of the Viper" do you not understand?And you ignore the concept of radiation shielding.And you assume that somebody's going to be detonating nukes just to take out fighters.[/quote] Where you said "The way fighters are depicted in say new Battlestar Galactica is perfectly viable - pilots in space suits with their own life-support." By using the word Viable, you are referring to the design you dishonest wanker. Also radiation shieldin

[quote]Don't be dense. I wasn't referring to the design of the Viper, I was referring to it's role. A properly shielded fighter with the pilot in a protected suit would mitigate the damage, and that's assuming pilots are just going to drift and let a nuke blast hit them.[/quote] Okay, let examine that theory. [link="http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3n.html"]Some online Calculators.[/link] [link="http://www.5596.org/cgi-bin/nuke.php"]What we are going to use.[/link]<b

[quote]The problem with fighter-drones is that the enemy could develop some kind of ECM to disrupt or even gain control of the fighters. The way fighters are depicted in say new Battlestar Galactica is perfectly viable - pilots in space suits with their own life-support.But it would likely not be much harder to take control over a manned fighter, and likely as not the original owner would have some kind of dead man's switch, such as transmitting a specific code every .02 seconds - different one

[quote]As for fighters, they are probably the most viable space-war tactic. But they are likely to be either computer-controlled or remote piloted, since life support and the space for a pilot and his-her interface would take up a lot of space and weight. Think of it like this: A ship with a hundred guns attached, or a hundred guns with ships attached. The fighters would be expendable, they'd be able to accelerate, decelerate and manouver far in excess of that any 'real' ship wouild be able to d

A few things. [link="http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3w.html#intro"]There is no stealth in space.[/link] [link="http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3x.html#fighters"]Space fighters make no sense.[/link]

Chapter Two: Part One Phase Space enroute to Fretena System, 5-24-4890 Rear Admiral Saddam Al-Douri entered the CIC of his Flagship, the Dunov Battlecruiser RBDBC-1290 Zulfiqar, to the salute of the two TEC Marines guarding it. His Chief-of-Staff, Captain Taymullah Al-Tikrit greeted him. “Admiral, we are ten minutes from exiting Phase Space. All ships are alert and crews in EVA suits in case of combat.” “Excellent

[quote]I think you got it all wrong. Take into consideration that this is a fiction novel, and that their technology is thousands of years beyond ours.[/quote] Well yeah, but it still follows basic science. Its part of Suspension of Belief. [quote]fighters are useful -they are meant to defend against Fighters/Bombers before they reach either bombing range of your home fleet or reach attacking range of your bomber group.[/quote] The devil is in the details, my friend. I

Writing: 4/5 Science: 0/5 Characters: 5/5 Total: 9/15 Some spelling mistakes and a few sentences that didn't flow well. Science: Fighters are useless in Space, not enough fuel for them and weak armament. Bombers make more sense provided the ship they are attacking has had its shield brought down and they aim for soft targets, they are still a brain bug though. Capital Ships will actually be faster than all the other ships as they have bigger

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