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Relax wrote:


DDM already shrunk once from full up capital missile with its larger micro fusion bottle and 10 laser heads. It is an obvious and necessary line of ongoing R&D. Things always improve past the initial production product. Always. Yet you blithly claim DDM is at perfection ??? Why the $%#$$#*(*$#*#)(#@)! would you think MDM/DDM would not shrink further? They have only just started designing and working with micro fusion and MDM technology. Improved throughput of the nuclear device via the grav pinch focusing alone will allow smaller laser rods and therefore smaller missiles even if they cannot shrink a micro fusion bottle further.

And BTW, how arrogant is it to type the part of your post I bolded? Besides, your last sentence is categorically not true as delineated in my first paragraph.

Alizon, please keep posting, relevant insightful posts.

Tenshinai wrote:I´m sure they will shrink. Eventually. In the fullness of time, at the appropriate juncture, in due course.

Sometime they certainly will, but right now, there does not seem to be anyone capable of doing that marvellous little feat.

Because the mk-16 IS the already shrunken MDM.

Duckk wrote:J6P, Relax, knock it off with the rudeness, or you'll earn yourselves a vacation from the board.

Relax wrote:Oh, so calling someone arrogant, for slamming a poster who extrapolated using a major theme throughout the books(missile improvement) is being rude?

Standing up for someone is never rude.

Last I checked, SVW was the rude fellow.

Relax wrote:

Duckk wrote:J6P, Relax, knock it off with the rudeness, or you'll earn yourselves a vacation from the board.

Oh, so calling someone arrogant, for slamming a poster who extrapolated using a major theme throughout the books(missile improvement) is being rude?

Standing up for someone is never rude.

Last I checked, SVW was the rude fellow.

pokermind wrote:What's with the new Industrial Strength Duckk? Did he change coffee brands from Caffeine free Weak Sister to Ultra Caffeine Content Tanzanian Wambo Bango? Or has the loss of Bu-Nine's Designated Adult released a Monster? The forum wants to know.

Duckk wrote:

Relax wrote:Oh, so calling someone arrogant, for slamming a poster who extrapolated using a major theme throughout the books(missile improvement) is being rude?

Standing up for someone is never rude.

Last I checked, SVW was the rude fellow.

SWM didn't proclaim any assumptions as truth, merely to keep an open mind that no one knows. SWM didn't berate people, not call them names with his (her?) post. Yours did. As shown by your own statement, you are the one slamming on people. Hence my warning.

Relax wrote:

Tenshinai wrote:I´m sure they will shrink. Eventually. In the fullness of time, at the appropriate juncture, in due course.

Sometime they certainly will, but right now, there does not seem to be anyone capable of doing that marvellous little feat.

Because the mk-16 IS the already shrunken MDM.

BuShips are capable of doing that marvelous little feat. It is an ongoing R&D line. Reality says so. One does not stop at the first iteration and 1st partial upgrade. The books say so as well. They already upgraded the missile throughput while keeping its dimensions and tonnage effectively the same.

Micro fusion bottle technology is an ongoing R&D line as well. It is still in its infancy as a technology. It is based entirely on improved grav pinch. A slight improvement in grav pinch will either improve its efficiency allowing greater power throughput, incorporating higher acceleration, better ECM warheads, and longer drive run time if they can incorporate the improved impeller node technology from the EDM SDM MK-17( or was it 14?), or they are going to shrink the bottle and fuel carried requirements.

Increased Grav pinch effects creating more forward radiation toward the laser head guarantees a higher destructive throughput. At this point, one can go any two directions. A smaller laser head and therefore a shorter less massive missile, or a higher throughput and more destructive missile. Or more numerous laser rods.

So, 6-7 distinct avenues of improvement, nuclear device power/grav pinch, laser head length, laser head diameter, fusion bottle efficiency, fusion bottle diameter, impeller drive time, and impeller acceleration. 5 of which have all been steadily improving. 2 of which are brand new fairly major steps.(Less than 3-4 years old)

All of which will lead to either a much nastier missile in the exact same tonnage, or a smaller less massive missile. Bureaucratic inertia, will probably go for nastier in same package until someone can come up with a white paper study of a much cheaper DDM missile and ship combination for routine patrol duties. A true DDM DD missile class.

Relax wrote:BuShips are capable of doing that marvelous little feat. It is an ongoing R&D line. Reality says so. One does not stop at the first iteration and 1st partial upgrade. The books say so as well. They already upgraded the missile throughput while keeping its dimensions and tonnage effectively the same.

Micro fusion bottle technology is an ongoing R&D line as well. It is still in its infancy as a technology. It is based entirely on improved grav pinch. A slight improvement in grav pinch will either improve its efficiency allowing greater power throughput, incorporating higher acceleration, better ECM warheads, and longer drive run time if they can incorporate the improved impeller node technology from the EDM SDM MK-17( or was it 14?), or they are going to shrink the bottle and fuel carried requirements.