long ranged CM

Duckk wrote:Except the Havenites weren't just blindly firing all their CMs to fill space with CM wedges. They still fundamentally aimed their CMs, they just accepted a level of premature telemetry cutoff, resulting in degraded accuracy, in order to set up for the next CM launch.

darrell wrote:

Lord Skimper wrote:it doesn't matter if you use a little warhead which somehow is way better than a Viper. Why is the Viper so bad?

The viper is a single small lasing rod (2m) with a small grav lens and a small (5Meg) warhead.

A DD missile has six 3M lasing rods, a 15 meg warhead and a better grav lense. EACH lasing rod puts out a beam at least 5 times more powerful than the viper.

A BC missile has six 5M lasing rods, a 50 meg warhead and an even better grav lense. It is at last 5 times more powerful than a DD missile.

A SD missile has six 8M lasing rods, a 200 meg warhead and an excelent grav lense. It is at last 5 times more powerful than a BC missile.

For comparison, A SD missile would be equivalent to six 16" guns on a battleship, (400MM) a BC missile would be the equivalent of six 8" artillery shells (200MM) a DD missile would be the equivalent of six 4" artillery shells (105MM) and a viper that of a 2" shell (50MM)

saber964 wrote:Minor nit pick, a 16 inch shell is 406 mm, 8 in is 203 mm and 105 mm is 4.1 inch.

Relax wrote:

saber964 wrote:Minor nit pick, a 16 inch shell is 406 mm, 8 in is 203 mm and 105 mm is 4.1 inch.

Since being an ass retentive seems to be in vogue

Is that before or after the shell is fired...

darrell wrote:

Lord Skimper wrote:it doesn't matter if you use a little warhead which somehow is way better than a Viper. Why is the Viper so bad?

The viper is a single small lasing rod (2m) with a small grav lens and a small (5Meg) warhead.

A DD missile has six 3M lasing rods, a 15 meg warhead and a better grav lense. EACH lasing rod puts out a beam at least 5 times more powerful than the viper.

A BC missile has six 5M lasing rods, a 50 meg warhead and an even better grav lense. It is at last 5 times more powerful than a DD missile.

A SD missile has six 8M lasing rods, a 200 meg warhead and an excelent grav lense. It is at last 5 times more powerful than a BC missile.

For comparison, A SD missile would be equivalent to six 16" guns on a battleship, (400MM) a BC missile would be the equivalent of six 8" artillery shells (200MM) a DD missile would be the equivalent of six 4" artillery shells (105MM) and a viper that of a 2" shell (50MM)

darrell wrote:

Lord Skimper wrote:Based upon the slower half power CM with longer range 6-6.4GM One can fire a set of CM's at the missile salvos coming in earlier and intercept them and fire the standard CM's for picking up the surviving missiles.

There is no such thing as half power for counter missiles. In order to make the missile as small as possible it has only one drive setting, 100%

On Basilisk Station, Chapter 30 wrote:Honor certainly hoped he would. The Q-ship's missiles were still burning out before they came in, but the engagement time between salvos was too short for Cardones to wait them out. He had to launch sooner, with poorer solutions and lower counter-missile accelerations to give him more time—and range—on their impeller wedges. The laser clusters began to fire as a handful of Sirius's shots got past his counter-missiles, and she looked up at the main visual display as incandescent bursts of brilliance pitted the starfield ahead of her. Unless she missed her guess about the warheads those missiles carried, she had to stop them at least twenty thousand kilometers short of her ship, and they looked frighteningly close.

Vince wrote:

darrell wrote:

There is no such thing as half power for counter missiles. In order to make the missile as small as possible it has only one drive setting, 100%

CM's do have some capability to be fired at less than 100% of maximum acceleration. Exactly how much is not given in text:

On Basilisk Station, Chapter 30 wrote:Honor certainly hoped he would. The Q-ship's missiles were still burning out before they came in, but the engagement time between salvos was too short for Cardones to wait them out. He had to launch sooner, with poorer solutions and lower counter-missile accelerations to give him more time—and range—on their impeller wedges. The laser clusters began to fire as a handful of Sirius's shots got past his counter-missiles, and she looked up at the main visual display as incandescent bursts of brilliance pitted the starfield ahead of her. Unless she missed her guess about the warheads those missiles carried, she had to stop them at least twenty thousand kilometers short of her ship, and they looked frighteningly close.

Italics are the author's, boldface is my emphasis.