Archives

Title Posted
Safehold Map Jul 2009
Grav pulse comm in hyper Nov 2002
FTL fire control Jun 2005
FTL fire control communication lag May 2006
Counter-missile canisters Dec 2002
Effective intercept range for counter-missiles Dec 2004
Counter-missile fire control issues and counter-missile pods Dec 2002
Counter-missile pods and two-stage counter-missiles Aug 2004
Hardening shipkiller missile drives Jun 2005
Keyhole platform survivability Nov 2006
16 of 24
  15 | 16 | 17  

Filters

Narrow the posts above by selecting a series or specifying a keyword.

Options

Pearls of Weber

A collection of posts by David Weber containing background information for his stories, collected and generously made available Joe Buckley.

Posted by David at 12:00am

Warshaski sail missiles

  • Series: Honorverse
  • Date: October 22, 2002

You cannot fit a Warshawski sail into any missile. This question has come up several times now. It is impossible to build a Warshaski sail missile at all, which is why missiles cannot be used in a grav wave in hyper.

Any missile with any impeller drive is much larger than the final target bus of even a Ghost Rider MDM. Counter-missiles are smaller than shipkillers; they are not tiny.

I hope this isn't going to become another grav lance! :-)