Posted on 12/27/2020 6:59:09 AM PST by Onthebrink
One alternate approach would be to have the part of the rail which experiences wear be able to be quickly swapped out.
Alternately, the power that would be used by a railgun, could also be used by a laser, and high power lasers are coming along.
Lasers have come a long way and they will be deployed on large surface combatants and fleet auxiliaries very soon. But they will be primarily defensive weapons slaved to the Aegis air defense net. The idea is that the laser is best used against fast & 'softer' air & surface targets (drones, helicopters, small boats and surface-to-surface missiles). You don't want to expend your limited supply of Standard & Sparrow missiles against targets that are on the edges of their engagement envelope or too cheap to make for a decent exchange.
Horrific. The comment about a “medium sea” semisubmersible and “no other vessel” is ludicrous. The engines of the Zumwalt cannot function on normal fuel. See: shakedown breakdown just before Panama Canal. Total breakdown.
No other vessel? See the “Littoral” designs for submarines with SLAM missiles and ship to ship. Shallow waters, and yes— medium seas.
A test bed vessel that proves a lot a crappy designs, and named after a test bed crappy admiral. Typical DOD waste and politics— right down to “green new deal” fuel.
Lot of time on his hands for an analysis of a fictional vessel... with... family members?! In reality a “test bed” of neo-global-interstellar socialism, fictionalized impossibities of utopia of a space “battleship”.
Hilarious, in fact. Don’t know if a naval architect friend has seen this— will send with a caveat for the time it takes. Wonder if there is such an analysis visible for existing weapons platforms of the Navy. Roddenberry was a weird pervo dude who saw the (Enterprise— what else) as a space version of a 5K crew aircraft carrier.
Highly exposed, vulnerable without support in a carrier group, and tech cover. Recently one was “brought out of service” by the assymetric warfare of the chi-coms who infected the crew allowed on shore leave at a “port of call” in... Da Nang Communist Vietnam. And the point of the spear of a CSG publicly exposed with it’s infection and parked at Guam. Captain rightly fired for his television we’re not at war (air force like) idiocy releasing the status to San Fran newspaper!
I take it you’ve never seen the Darth Jar Jar theory video? Or any of the countless other Fan Theory videos?
People have a lot of free time, and had it even before the Kungflu.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...🤦♂️
Star Wars have not kept up with, having zero time for all the peregrination's of marketing— the abuses of Hollywood never answered for abysmal writing.
Sorry. But in the modern technological era, virtually all surface combatants are obsolete.
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