I Seem to be experiencing operating difficulties please st...
I meant to say more about my sub but the Ducvax is having troubles(Me too)
Patton: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man
Translation: A fixed deep meson site is a dead meson site.
If you want to have your meson gun survive the first few minutes, you need
it to be mobile. Any good intelligence team would recon the location of a
defence site before any invasion started. It would be the first target put
into the invaders computers long before they even jumped in system.
Solution: Mobile meson guns. As a sub with 2km of water over head,
densiometers are going to have a tough time. Its the same over all density
as the water around it. It's on the sea bottom connected to a geothermal
plant in the sea bed. No neutrino emmisions. If they want to move it,
use the meson boiler powered by another sub and move them in leap frog
fashion. The crew could have a choice of several geothermal stations
to get power from thus an attacking fleet won't have a clue where they are.
You have Passive sensor modules disguised as civilian g-carriers all over
the planet these transmit data via meson communicators (No body knows about
these...) I will post one in the near future.
OK suppose a starship enters the water... I have not seen ONE ship designed
with a sonar set. NOT ONE. (Hint)
A sub, especially at low tech makes the best SDB (See my designs of the
Soviet missile sub Typhoon class @TL8, and the US missile sub Lafayette)
just fix 'em up with surface to orbi missiles instead of ICBMS and that's
what you have to fight with.(Lafayette=TL7)
The Herbert Dean class sub is operational in the seas of Regina and saw action
in the 5F War, the Zhodani assault used psionics to aid in the location of the
sites and sank one ship. Since then the ships are being equipped with psi
shielding in the hulls as part of the PDI (Psionic Defence Initiative)
The subs spend most of their time on patrol resulting in somewhat lower
morale than the rest of the SDB contingients. Thus they are equipped with
sufficient low berths to allow for crew members to spend less time being
bored without so much as a window to look out of, than they would normally
have to on what is normally a 1 year mission.
(US sub crews spend 6 months (?) and in comparison to other SDB crews
who can afford to land for fuel and supplies every month life on the Herbert
Dean is pretty SLOW. No interceptions to be made, little or no movement
(Every time they change location they are subject to tracking) Just sit on
the bottom and wait for the invasion. Even Deep meson site crews go home
at night (course they'll be on the moon first when it hits the fan...)
I had trouble figuring the speed out, but she's a purpose designed sub (even
if it doesn't have ballest tanks) so the depth given is for subs not ships
Acoustic Sig=Strong? With a very quiet fusion reactor, grav drives and
anechroic coating? What do you say George? I'm not so sure
I would say that an MHD drive would lower acoustic sig and your notes don't
say anything about that. Also I know that speed of a craft destroys sonar
readings but I have no idea how much or at what speed. (please Help)
All of you who may be concerned about me desigining mountains of stuff..
relax I got too much work to do (but it's a holiday so I got a little time)
Scott Kellogg