Pod Deployment Rate

TCFD0415 wrote:Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyone can point me to a source where it mentions what the rate of pod deployment is for the various ship classes?

Thanks

Jonathan_S wrote:

TCFD0415 wrote:Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyone can point me to a source where it mentions what the rate of pod deployment is for the various ship classes?

Thanks

cant think of a consolidated source.
But I was looking at the text for the battle of Solan yesterday (or the day before) and IIRC the text their said the RHN SD(P)s were each rolling 6 pods every 36 seconds.
Hopefully others will remember other spots in the text ev that give timing on rolling pods.

SharkHunter wrote:Even then, it's not maximum "rate of fire", it's maximum rate of control. One of the ongoing arguments in the Honorverse has to do with the one channel per missile, or now one channel per control missile vs. a multichannel transmitting link. Personally I've come down in favor of that one being "computing capacity" related, by the way, under the theory that defeating the enemy's computational ECM is what requires progressively higher rates of channel capacity by the shipboard computers.

That said, one of the later books states that any two of the latest generation RMN/Grayson SD(p)s has enough fire control to have managed the missile storm during the Battle of Spindle all by themselves, vs. the twelve Sag-C's that did so, not even counting using the Apollo missile's FTL links. Before too many salvo(s) you run out of "targeting/anti-ECM computing capacity", I think.

Theemile wrote:It is stated in text that the average MA SD Podlayer in HomeFleet at BoMa had over 400 control channels, and only 2-4 of them were Invicti with KH1, and ~12 were first Generation IAN Addlers. That pretty much guarantees that a Meduas/Harrington had >400 control channels each - and Invicti KH1 probably have ~800. Honor's KH2 ships were controlling >6500 attack and ecm missiles apiece in her main salvo, for more than 800 FTL control channels.

Theemile wrote:It is stated in text that the average MA SD Podlayer in HomeFleet at BoMa had over 400 control channels, and only 2-4 of them were Invicti with KH1, and ~12 were first Generation IAN Addlers. That pretty much guarantees that a Meduas/Harrington had >400 control channels each - and Invicti KH1 probably have ~800. Honor's KH2 ships were controlling >6500 attack and ecm missiles apiece in her main salvo, for more than 800 FTL control channels.

AAC Chapter 8 wrote:Assuming they were, indeed, Havenite units—and Padgorny couldn’t think of any reason for anyone else to be coming in without identifying themselves this way—Thackeray’s question was well taken. Prince Stephen and the other four units of the understrength Thirty-First Battle Squadron weren’t precisely cutting-edge. Although the oldest of Padgorny’s ships was less than eight T-years old, none of them were pod-layers. All five were surrounded by shoals of missile pods, waiting to tractor themselves to their hulls upon command, but they weren’t really optimized for pod-based combat. They simply lacked the sophistication of the fire control built into ships of the wall which had been intended from the outset for the new operational environment. Prince Stephen could “tow” as many as five or six hundred of the new pods, whose internal tractors glued them limpet-like to a ship’s hull, but loading up with that many would seriously compromise her combat ability by blocking sensor and firing arcs. Worse, the maximum number of missiles she could actually simultaneously control effectively at range was no more than a hundred. One of the Invictus-class SD(P)s could control two or three times that many birds, even without the new Keyhole platforms, and she had to assume Peep pod-layers would also have several times the missile telemetry channels her ships had.