On 10/7/2014 11:59 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz wrote:

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Craig Berry <cdberry@gmail.com> wrote:

All those smooth curves and fairings are dead mass for a
vacuum fighter.

Do they have to be dead mass though?

I mean, the curved surface is going to contribute to armor
protectiveness, for example, which is an advantage in space as well.
I guess the amount of 'waste' depends on how much unusable volume is
between the hardware and the skin.

What he said.  Armor IS dead mass, and vice versa.

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