Morning PDT Rob O'Connor,

 

>> Grimmund wrote:
>> How does this compare to your personal vision of missile bay weapons?
> Bay missiles are bigger than turret ones.

 

Bay missiles being bigger that standard turret launched missiles is, in my opinion,

supported by Special Supplement 3 (SS3) Missiles in Traveller issued in JTAS 21.

> Missiles are "cold launched" and kicked out past the hull by compressed
> gas before they engage their thrusters.
> At higher tech levels everything is reactionless and cold launching
> isn't required.

 

I do not know how much stress igniting a reactionless thruster would have on

the launch rail or as detailed in SS3 the launch container. However, I would

probably still impulse the missile away from the turret or bay before igniting

the reactionless thrust. Of course SS3 does away with reactionless thrusters

for missiles.

Tom R

 

From: "Rob O'Connor" <xxxxxx@ozemail.com.au>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 1:50:54 AM
Subject: Re: [TML] High Guard missile bay launch
Grimmund wrote:
> How does this compare to your personal vision of missile bay weapons?
Bay missiles are bigger than turret ones.
Missiles are "cold launched" and kicked out past the hull by compressed
gas before they engage their thrusters.
At higher tech levels everything is reactionless and cold launching
isn't required.
Bruce Johnson wrote:
> Of course, this begs the question of how a missile half the size of a
> gorram sidewinder can pack enough chemical energy in it to do up to
> 6000 seconds of 6g acceleration into a tube only slightly larger than
> some Estes model rockets...
The propellant chemicals are metallic hydrogen and antihydrogen?
Missiles use contragravity thrusters that are set to overload, like a
Star Trek phaser?
IIRC, 6G6 is 18 G-hours of thrust (6G for 6 30 minute turns, right?)
That gets you a terminal velocity of ~635km/sec for boosting all the way
to the target...

Rob O'Connor
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