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by Gallia- » Mon May 29, 2017 2:26 pm
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by Gallia- » Mon May 29, 2017 7:21 pm
Austrasien wrote:This would do.
by The Technocratic Syndicalists » Mon May 29, 2017 8:43 pm
Gallia- wrote:For some reason I thought SABMIS was supposed to be a mobile Sprint missile battery but apparently it was Cobra Judy-sized panels and an unspecified interceptor rocket probably based on an SLBM.
RIP.
Zone RV defense like the Carrier Dichotomy of the US Navy in the '50s.
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by Gallia- » Mon May 29, 2017 8:46 pm
by Hurtful Thoughts » Mon May 29, 2017 8:51 pm
Halfblakistan wrote:Would it be sensible to convert a container ship into a Landing Helicopter Dock? Would that even be feasible? How much would it cost to upgrade and what kind of armament and landing capability should it have? I know that Cuba converted a fishing trawler into a "frigate" and Iraq converted a civilian airliner into an AEW platform, so I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. Of course, I could be wrong, which is why I'm asking.
I know that these are all highly speculative questions, but I'm curious as to what y'all think!
Mokostana wrote:See, Hurty cared not if the mission succeeded or not, as long as it was spectacular trainwreck. Sometimes that was the host Nation firing a SCUD into a hospital to destroy a foreign infection and accidentally sparking a rebellion... or accidentally starting the Mokan Drug War
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by The Technocratic Syndicalists » Mon May 29, 2017 8:58 pm
The Akasha Colony wrote: But the upper-level BMD capability got moved to the orbital Brilliant Pebbles constellation and the AShBM capability was sort of sidelined. Might make a comeback later.
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by Gallia- » Mon May 29, 2017 9:21 pm
by The Technocratic Syndicalists » Mon May 29, 2017 9:28 pm
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by The Akasha Colony » Mon May 29, 2017 9:40 pm
The Technocratic Syndicalists wrote:I'd be wary of brilliant pebbles and its more modern SBI incarnation as with the limited ~2.5 km/s delta-V capability od each interceptor they can be rather easily countered with faster burning boosters which can burn out before the interceptor can reach them. The only feasible counters to this would be to increase the number of intercepts by an order of magnitude to make up for the shorter intercept ranges, massively increasing manufacturing and launch costs, or to give the SBIs more delta-V which would entail increasing their mass by an order of magnitude or more (as delta-V is a logarithmic function of mass ratio), also massively increasing launch costs. Cost wise the cost of launching enough SBIs to effectively counter X ICBMs is much more than the cost to add another X ICBMs, hence against a peer competitor the numbers will always favor the attacker.
The only truly effective space-based defense would be SBL (or neutral particle beams) since attacking at lightspeed (or near lightspeed) means you could care less if the booster burns out in 150 versus 300 seconds. You would also only need around 20-24 in orbit for global coverage as opposed to say 40,000 SBIs so it might actually end up cheaper despite being massive more technologically complex. DEWS, whether land, air, sea, or space based, are the only really cost-effective methods (theoretically) of countering ICBMs. Terminal AShBM defense s would be well within means for a MIRACL type multi-megawatt laser although a naval version of THAAD might also be good enough to do the trick since unlike SM-3 it can engage endo-atmospheric targets like AShBMs or TBMS other flying highly depressed trajectories.
by The Technocratic Syndicalists » Mon May 29, 2017 10:07 pm
The Akasha Colony wrote:
The first incarnation of the system was deployed in the 1990s and there were no other feasible options anywhere near as ready for deployment. FBOW, Brilliant Pebbles is relatively simple and straightforward technology and some kind of public declaration of initial operating capability was required to justify continued expenditure on the system. The constellation was never fully intended to be a complete shield against any and all ballistic missile attack, but a "show of national will" and essentially a regional anti-ballistic missile capability more in line with the scaled back proposals Bush 41 was pushing after the climbdown from Reagan's full-on SDI. It also punted the thorny political question of the diplomatic effects of a "true" ABM system further down the road.
There are still plans to field a more robust, multi-element system incorporating laser platforms once feasible and tests are underway but none have been put into service yet, which is to say I haven't bothered taking any serious look into it. I found the discussion on SBL interesting and would welcome any further information on it, but at the moment I'm sort of in a slump and not doing anything big, hence the interest in minor things like nitpicking tank transmissions.
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by Laritaia » Tue May 30, 2017 7:04 am
Arthurista wrote:Does anyone have any idea what the 'realistic' max range of a Meteor is? Open source info just seem to indicate '100km+' but surely that's just MBDA being coy, isn't it?
by The Technocratic Syndicalists » Tue May 30, 2017 7:20 am
Arthurista wrote:Does anyone have any idea what the 'realistic' max range of a Meteor is? Open source info just seem to indicate '100km+' but surely that's just MBDA being coy, isn't it?
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by The Akasha Colony » Tue May 30, 2017 7:44 am
Palmyrion wrote:Real-life example pls
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