01-27-2021, 10:43 AM | #1 |
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Missile Loads
Is it possible to load missiles from ammunition ships to warships?
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01-27-2021, 11:11 AM | #2 | |
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Re: Missile Loads
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I will note that with a standard turret launcher having a load of 77 it's a problem that doesn't come up often.
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01-27-2021, 11:40 AM | #3 |
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Re: Missile Loads
The US Navy does it as "underway replenishment". You can find some official procedure docs online. Would be easier in space without waves rocking the ships.
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01-27-2021, 11:56 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Missile Loads
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I guess it's a matter of how large the missile is versus how large the ship.
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01-27-2021, 02:37 PM | #5 |
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Re: Missile Loads
Remember that classic Traveller wasn't really aware of kinetic kill munitions, so "ship killer" really means "nuclear warhead."
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01-27-2021, 03:11 PM | #6 |
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Re: Missile Loads
I'm not sure the missile carriers would load missiles to the larger ships during a battle, but they could easily do this afterwards.
I would hope that navy ships do their best to keep a full load of missiles.
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01-27-2021, 09:08 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Missile Loads
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Now when the Gurps Traveller (loosely Ve2-based) combat system was implemented it was discovered thast even the simplest GTL10 "civilian" missile (able to accelerate at 6Gs for 1 hour) _was_ a shipkiller. If you're able to give it the full 1 hour run it'll hit at a little over 130 miles per second (plus whatever it had from the launching ship) and it will explode like a meteor for just over 1 kiloton of TNT. That's devastating as a contact explosion. Flipping through Starships did give me the tidbits that extra missiles can be carried as cargo but not reloaded during battle. Times to reload are given. Were the whole thing mine to design the missile launchers would have access from inside and outside and the outside ports would be amenable to things that worked like stripper clips and didn't have to load the missiles one at a time.
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01-28-2021, 02:52 PM | #8 |
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Re: Missile Loads
Which is weird because Sandcasters...
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02-02-2021, 03:07 PM | #9 | |
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Re: Missile Loads
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Even a conventional explosive means the cross sectional area you need to put the missile through to stand a good chance of killing the target is probably dozens of times larger. For a nuke, it's probably thousands of times.
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