HAB Reality Defying Munition passes it's first tests
Posted: 2007-03-22 06:04pm
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Everyone's going to die in that picture. Except the people in pressure-tight compartments inside the ISD.Seggybop wrote:The massive tidal wave that will be created when it hits the ocean might be a bit problematic for those gunners.
Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
I think he means the scaling in the picture is all wrong for a 1.6km long object, it's more like 20 metersLord Pounder wrote:Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
I re-iterate my statement with some emphasis for clarity: "that ISD is not a mile long."Lord Pounder wrote:Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
Clearly it's a PSD... a Princess-Class Star Destroyer... 'cuz that's one big pussy!Adrian Laguna wrote:I re-iterate my statement with some emphasis for clarity: "that ISD is not a mile long."Lord Pounder wrote:Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
If Duke Nukem can do it why can't the navy?Isolder74 wrote:reality defying indeed! It shot down and shrank the target with one hit!
How do you know? That thing is probably miles away.Adrian Laguna wrote:I re-iterate my statement with some emphasis for clarity: "that ISD is not a mile long."Lord Pounder wrote:Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
WTF ?!? Oodarthbob88 wrote:I am not entirely qualified to discuss scaling in this matter; however, I calculate that at a range of 5 miles, a 1 mile long ISD would subtend ~.2 radians, or about 11.5 degrees of arc. Going by those assumptions, it seems reasonable to me that the object in question is a full-size, 1 mile long Imperial Star Destroyer.
Calculations
ISD is ~1 mile long, 5 inch cannon has range of ~5 miles. Assuming the shell struck the ISD amidships, it would create an isosceles triangle, with the cannon at one apex and the ISD making up the opposite side, and having an altitude of 5 miles opposite a side of 1 mile. Therefore, the cannon and half of the ISD would form a 5-.5-5.02 right triangle, and half the ISD would subtend ~.1 radians, meaning that the entire ISD would subtend ~.2 radians.
As I said, I'm unqualified to make any serious statement on this sort of thing. If any of the inputs are wrong, feel free to substitute in whatever you think is more accurate.Crix Dorius wrote:WTF ?!? Oodarthbob88 wrote:I am not entirely qualified to discuss scaling in this matter; however, I calculate that at a range of 5 miles, a 1 mile long ISD would subtend ~.2 radians, or about 11.5 degrees of arc. Going by those assumptions, it seems reasonable to me that the object in question is a full-size, 1 mile long Imperial Star Destroyer.
Calculations
ISD is ~1 mile long, 5 inch cannon has range of ~5 miles. Assuming the shell struck the ISD amidships, it would create an isosceles triangle, with the cannon at one apex and the ISD making up the opposite side, and having an altitude of 5 miles opposite a side of 1 mile. Therefore, the cannon and half of the ISD would form a 5-.5-5.02 right triangle, and half the ISD would subtend ~.1 radians, meaning that the entire ISD would subtend ~.2 radians.