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Posted - 2007.10.16 07:13:00 -
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Originally by: Snake Doctor
Originally by: Lyria Skydancer
Originally by: YunFu Yan
Originally by: Tarminic
Originally by: YunFu Yan
Originally by: Winterblink Don't even get me started on the inefficiencies of having like 500 explosive devices to disconnect the front of the ship from the back.
You have other ideas to counter the inertia of a few thousand tons of steel in a matter of seconds?
It makes sense if you think about it... well infact it doesn't... you'd need ALOT MORE explosives.
One much larger explosive device, with a single point of failure instead of 500 points of failure?
Or how about a set of clamps and some...I dunno...engines. They're all the rage on spaceships today.
Engines can only output so much force. It'll take time to accelerate something as large as the bridge section of that ship. So no good as an emergency device.
One single, much larger explosive device, while applying the same force in the same timeframe, would work towards a much smaller area of the bridge. You'd have to built that area to basicly withstand a counterforce equal to the inertia of both parts of the ship.
Uhm well this isnt a huge problem. You simply put the guns on suspension with some sort of damp and/or feather system.
Depends on the system- Firing an XL railshot would do nearly nothing in terms of recoil, since the kinetic energy of the launch is transferred to an expense of electrical energy in the rails.
Arty's would pose quite a problem. A shot of XL arty would send your ship spinning wildly out of control, unless you had a retro to counter the blast. Even some sort of gimbaled mount is going to exert a force on the ship. You could mix a gimbaled mount and a buffer spring of some sort to soften the blow, but the shot may still send you flying.
Wrong, you'd always have recoil, no matter what the propulsion mechanism. Kinetic energy isn't transferred into electrical, electrical energy is used to provide a force, or electrical energy is converted into kinetic via a not so efficient process. But the rails are also pushed, with the exact force on the projectile, in the opposite direction of the round.
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