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11-15-2017, 01:57 AM | #322 | |
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11-15-2017, 02:03 AM | #323 | |
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It's just that modern technology allows some blending of roles so today's fighters can often play as light-to-medium bombers as well. Something that would've required a dedicated aircraft back then can now mostly be done by mode4n fighters due to size and technology. Speaking of size, a lot of people don't realize just how large modern fighters are compared to WW2 fighters. I would imagine any "space fighters" would be a good deal larger than modern atmospheric fighters instead of the really tiny fighters we often get in visual science fiction. |
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11-15-2017, 02:28 AM | #324 | |
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If you're saying that by the time space fighters have a chance to be a thing the 'fighter' label will be used to mean something different...well, that's possible, but I don't think that's what anybody else has been discussing.
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11-15-2017, 03:54 AM | #325 | |
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11-15-2017, 04:56 AM | #326 | |
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As to warplanes that aren't fighters, you need to add the B-1, B-2, EA-6, EA-18, AV-8, several combat variants of the C-130, and attack helicopters. Some of those are capable of defending themselves to varying degrees, and the B-1 has been proposed for conversion to an anti-air missile bus, but none of them are actually fighters.
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11-15-2017, 06:18 AM | #327 | |
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They are four to a "carrier" which is much much larger than them, because the carrier not only has a FTL drive but facilities to keep things running and the crew functional and hopefully sane for months to years.
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11-15-2017, 06:56 AM | #328 |
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Re: [Space] Fighter-to-ship ratio: what is it and why?
I'm pretty certain a space fighter AI is going to be looking at more than just a potential target's silhouette. It's going to analyze the way it's moving, the markings on the hull, its current vector and speed, and so forth, while running this against a database to see if it matches the data on, say, a registered merchant vessel. That's assuming you're using such craft for police work, which is well outside the use cases that have been discussed in this thread. Note also that in space, unless heavy superscience is involved, you likely have hours if not longer to make a shoot/don't shoot determination, so even if the AI can't be trusted to do so, it can send all the relevant data to command to let them do it (you could even have fairly simply AI running on cheap hardware send the data to an advanced AI - one that can be relied on for such decisions - running on a cutting-edge supercomputer back at base).
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