Also don't forget that UNSC MACs scale with the ship's size, most UNSC ships are smaller than their Covenant equivalents, and the UNSC was outnumbered for most of the war.
Sure, pound for pound the MAC is a solid weapons system but that doesn't mean shit given the significant greater overall tonnage of the Covenant.
If MACs were as worthless as you say, then they wouldn't have killed as many Covenant ships as they did.
They can't do that at ranges that would matter, and railgun slugs would only be mildly aerodynamic at that point - they are moving so fast with so much kinetic energy that a small aerodynamic imperfection close to the target is unlikely to affect trajectory bigly - an object in motion will stay in motion.
A 50kg he frag explosion would wreck radar and comms so you'd be going back to 1930s range finding and target engagement too
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Eeehhhh no. The Helios laser on a Burke is about as good as it gets and even if is heavily affected by atmospherics
I doubt the Trump class will be 35k tons, probably 20k max
Lmao he's seething as the UK is incapable of making an equivalent
David Weber wants your location
Lasers are good against little targets going slow and targets that have very little mass going kinda fast
If it's going to be in the 20-25,000 ton range, just give it 200 VLS cells and call it a Cruiser. It's not that hard, and we've lacked a suitable cruiser replacement since the 90s. (We only got the last of the Ticonderoga Class now, Burkes don't cut as a suitable replacement for them).
It will be a heavy missile cruiser and will probably end up with more than 128 Mk.41 VLS cells, but Trump just loves old fashioned ship names
Honestly it's more of a spite thing. The navy and congress has been retarded on replacing cruisers for decades now. So Trump-sama just decided to call it a battleship and cut the Gordian knot of ship procurement, while also pissing off every autist stuck in WW2 where technology has not advanced from in 80 years apparently
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Don't forget that MAC projectiles travel at up to 4% the speed of light. At speeds like that, if fired in atmosphere, the projectile's possibly going to cause an explosion with a yield on par with a nuke when it hits something. No wonder Jorge was so worried when the UNSC Grafton was authorized to fire its MAC off in atmosphere.
I love Legends of the Galactic Heroes, but man, half of the battles could be solved by thinking "what if we went over/under them?" or, even simpler, "what if we simply went past them at orbital velocity?" They're just naval fleet engagements with a different theme, nothing more. I like naval fleet engagements. I like space. Space warfare is (that we have every reason to suspect) nothing like that. It's extremely dynamic and constantly in motion, while basically every LotGH engagement is... a bunch of stationary ships against another bunch of stationary ships in formation. Line warfare just doesn't work in space. As there is yet to be any actual space combat outside of surface-to-orbit missile "demonstrations", it's entirely guessing, but you can have an educated guess. Everyone's favorite Australian's favorite game, Terra Invicta, comes somewhat close, but it too relies too much on naval formation and up-close engagement, even if it (obtusely) simulates ΔV. Children of a Dead Earth is a better contender for realistic space battles, although it, too, suffers from too-close engagements (1,000km and lower) when the engagement range could be extended far, far beyond, as well as a lack of sensor warfare, which will very likely be a very large part of combat in space (despite the eternal adage of "bUt YoU cAn'T hIdE iN sPaCe"). The reality very well may be that space engagements occur across entire astronomical units, with only small, nigh-undetectable drones trading shots up close. But, right now, nobody knows for sure, except for the obvious conclusion: it won't be naval ship-of-the-line battles. Things in space move incredibly fast. If you're not moving, everyone else is, and Isaac Newton is the deadliest motherfucker in space. Further, there are unlikely to be any Project Orion nuclear bomb propelled battleships, unfortunately, though that is mostly because of the Earth situation. But how I wish they were real.
Dude's a severe alcoholic, he's probably hunched over the toilet barfing up last night's "munchie box"
i did some space fights in modded ksp
David Weber literally on suicide watch rn. He literally invented a ftl/non ftl drive system that FORCED everyone into ..... Ship of the line engagements. Oh and he's finally inventing space submarines now and I'm sure he'll eventually get to space dive bombers and Armor piercing projectiles.... Eventually...... After he writes the 8-15 books he's on contract to Baen for
He's probably in a rage induced stupor at the moment.
