GarryKE
Omnispace Trading Company
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Posted - 2013.01.29 23:47:00 -
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Taken from: EVE-DUST 514 Link FAQ
Quote:What about missiles? Why canGÇÖt I fire ze missiles?
ThereGÇÖs a number of reasons for missiles being an inappropriate delivery mechanism of tactical orbit-to-ground munitions. For one missiles are easily countered by Planetary Defence Systems. On the other hand, the maximum velocity of a ballistic missile descending from orbit without tearing itself apart is relatively so low that it would take minutes for it to reach the ground. This could be solved by manufacturing missiles with a built-in micro-warp drive, but that would cause the manufacturing price of the missile to sky-rocket, and besides, utilizing a warp drive so close to a planet surface is at best an interesting experiment and at worst catastrophic.
Obviously, the scientific idea against using a microwarp drive, to my thinking anyway, is that if the math was a little off, the missile would explode beneath the planet's crust, which could make it all go a little topsy turvy.
Would it work if missiles blasted at a speed significantly faster and had a built-in inertia dampener and computer systems for the detection of distance, so as to activate the inertia dampener when it gets however close?
Or how about a shield chip installed to the missiles so as to keep them compact and protecting them from being torn apart by the speed at which it's traveling into the atmosphere? Again, would need to be blasted at a higher speed so as to avoid planetary defense systems.
Or parachutes. NASA have been doing it for a long time now.
Or how about if they were fitted with tracking disruptors to counter planetary defense systems.
Or, and it's a bit crazy but, before the primary group of missiles being blasted down on to the planet, one was shot into the atmosphere to cause an interference for any defense system tracking. Kind of like what would happen if a nuclear missile were to explode in Earth's atmosphere, it would cause a massive electromagnetic interference for our radio and communications. This, too, is another idea for countering.
Quote:but that would cause the manufacturing price of the missile to sky-rocket
Perhaps not if they were a specialised missile.
Just some thoughts really... |