I like. I can see this system being the basis for the small turret missiles that civvies carry. On May 2, 2014, at 7:10 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote: >> On 5/2/2014 1:05 AM, Tim wrote: > >> >> The weapons range from something the length of a Hellfire missile to a >> missile with a diameter of about five meters with multiple warheads so >> there's a wide range of mayhem available to smite with. >> >> > > Hellfire is 17.3cm dia by 163cm long. > Hmmm... > Ya know, if you were to mount an FGMP's "working parts" in a tube, and > run it at "low power" mode, it could fake being an HEPLAR. Then, when > it reaches target, it'd drain some capacitors to put much more power > to the coils that make the magnetic field that controls the plasma, > and thus initiate fusion. > > Issues with power consumption during the plasma burn, but you could > probably come up with a pulsed mode, where it'd run in plasma for a > while, until one set of caps were low, then do a tiny fusion pulse > that releases a bunch of energy that the thing captures and recharges > the caps. > > Or go simpler, and have it run in pulse mode the whole time, kinda of > "Orion-ish" , making fusion packets that decay and erupt inside a > thrust chamber. > ...until it reaches target, at which time it uses all remaining fuel > and power to make one big boom. > > I could see a 20cm dia x 100cm "package" that has a screw-on 20x40cm > fuel tank, and then a 20x10 'sensor package" on the front. The sensor > package would vent the LH2 in the fuel tank out side-mounted jets to > steer, in between thrust pulses. > > Bigger "medium sized" missiles (like a 1 could be groups of the > 'standard' 20cm dia x 150cm screwed into a larger assembly, until it > becomes cost effective to make a larger module design (ICBM size) > > I could see the "medium size" one being something like: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur > Picture five of the 20cm dia modules in the back, (square plus center) > and it uses the pulse rate on each one to steer. > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com > To unsubscribe from this list please goto > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=g8EYmpjfNu22Uwq2slNgbtlSYHMIUXYZ
