Air performance

Varyon · 03-10-2021, 03:02 PM

I'm pretty certain most modern fighter craft don't have a full 1G of acceleration, so they should absolutely be built with smaller systems. I think you'll still end up with too high of a top speed, however - IIRC top speed scales with the square root of acceleration, so something with 0.1G would have a top speed around Mach 2. That's Move 1/750, while the old P-51D Mustang had Move 3/218.

03-10-2021, 03:02 PM	#3
Varyon Join Date: Jun 2013	Re: Air performance I'm pretty certain most modern fighter craft don't have a full 1G of acceleration, so they should absolutely be built with smaller systems. I think you'll still end up with too high of a top speed, however - IIRC top speed scales with the square root of acceleration, so something with 0.1G would have a top speed around Mach 2. That's Move 1/750, while the old P-51D Mustang had Move 3/218. __________________ GURPS Overhaul