Weird Harold wrote:Lord Skimper wrote:So, How big is the Graser Torpedo?
Bigger than a breadbox, smaller than a Battleship.
That's not really helpful, Harold ... especially because we have at least some hints im MoH, regarding the MAlin Graser-Torps (GT):
(HC, 1.ed., page 369) - (bold marks are mine)MoH, Chapter 28 wrote:The first wave of each attack consisted of a weapon which was as much a fundamental breakthrough, in its own way, as the Manticoran introduction of the multidrive missile: a graser torpedo which used its own variant of the spider drive. It was a large and cumbersome weapon, with the same trilateral symmetry as the Shark-class ships which had launched it, and for the same reasons.
The torpedo's size made fitting it into magazines and actually firing it awkward, to say the least, and the Sharks had never been intended to deploy it operationally. For that matter, the Sharks themselves had never been supposed to be deployed "operationally." The Leonard Detweiler class, which had been intended to carry out this operation, had been designed with magazines and launch tubes which would make it possible to stow and fire torpedoes internally, but none of the Detweilers were even close to completion, and it had required the development of an ingenious external rack system to allow the Sharks to use it for Oyster Bay.
The sharks, on the other hand, are descripted (even if I don't find the textev at the moment) as in the BC-range (that is around a Million tons) - and they are too small to storage Graser Torps in any useful numbers internally ... So I think a GT needs around half of the volume of a dispatch boat (with a corresponding mass). Make it around 5,000 tons in mass penalty for one GT, at least as produced by the MAlign.
