[TML] A little tinkering with Lasers

[Garry Ward]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry W Barrington" <jursamaj at yahoo.com>
To: <tml at travellercentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TML] A little tinkering with Lasers


> On 8/23/07 4:36 PM, "Glenn M. Goffin" wrote:
>
>> With no meson weapons, really big ships are viable, even desirable,
>> for combat.  I think that that would be the biggest difference.
>
> Here's a point against large ships:
>
> Look at the cube/square issue we were discussing about thrust.  Same issue
> with weapons.  Pick a ship configuration and design a warship at 1000 
> dTon.
> Now scale it up and design at 8000 dTon (twice as long, wide, and deep).
> You have 8 times as much ship, but only 4 times as much surface to mount
> weapons on.
>
> On a separate note, Why are meson guns mounted on the outside, taking up
> space for other weapons.  If planets can "deep" mount them, so can a ship!
Most meson guns are spinal mounts, which are mostly internal, only the bore 
takes up surface space. That is, a TL 15 2 Gj meson gun has a 5 x 5 meter 
surface foot print.

Possibly not an issue deep inside a planet because there is so much rock to 
absorb miss fires, but on a ship, a miss fire is gonna hit something you 
really don't want hit.

Garry
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