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Does anyone know what the specifications of a proton torpedo are?

Such as length, width, height, mass, payload, etc?

Varies by type Ranges from a few inches long, a few kg, and a sub KT yield to several meters long, massing probably around a few tons, and having a multi GT yield

You need to be more specific for better info

Ender wrote:Varies by type Ranges from a few inches long, a few kg, and a sub KT yield to several meters long, massing probably around a few tons, and having a multi GT yield

You need to be more specific for better info

something comprable to what we saw in ANH...or perhaps a shoulder fired unit?

Steven Snyder wrote:

Ender wrote:Varies by type Ranges from a few inches long, a few kg, and a sub KT yield to several meters long, massing probably around a few tons, and having a multi GT yield

You need to be more specific for better info

something comprable to what we saw in ANH...or perhaps a shoulder fired unit?

ANH ones were a few inches long, had a range of 90,000 KM, and a yield of ~1 KT

Shoulder fired ones have shorter range, are not as wide, but have aroudn the same yield.

More common dogfighting torps are ~ 1 MT - 10 MT as near as I can tell, and can range up to the high hundreds of MT for cap killers.

The ANH warheads where a few inches long, the complete missile was comparable in size to 155mm artillery shell.

Sea Skimmer wrote:The ANH warheads where a few inches long, the complete missile was comparable in size to 155mm artillery shell.

Woah. Something that small blew up the Death Star?

So you see the irony? To be fair, that one kiloton warhead blew up inside a very delicate reactor. It just put a hole in it, the reactor did most of the damage.

YT300000 wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:The ANH warheads where a few inches long, the complete missile was comparable in size to 155mm artillery shell.

Woah. Something that small blew up the Death Star?

Its called a chain reaction

Crazedwraith wrote:

YT300000 wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:The ANH warheads where a few inches long, the complete missile was comparable in size to 155mm artillery shell.

Woah. Something that small blew up the Death Star?

Its called a chain reaction

I still have trouble believing that a missile that small could penetrate the armour on a reactor 16 km across. Why was the reactor unarmoured?

YT300000 wrote:

Crazedwraith wrote:

YT300000 wrote: Woah. Something that small blew up the Death Star?

Its called a chain reaction

I still have trouble believing that a missile that small could penetrate the armour on a reactor 16 km across. Why was the reactor unarmoured?

There's a limit on how much you can armor something as dense as a black hole.

Why armor something that's in the exact center of a space station the size of a Death Star? It's not like the Imperials planners thought "Hey, some hotshot Rebel pilot who just happens to have l33t Force skills might come along and somehow manage to shoot a pair of proton torpedos into a thermal vent and blow up the reactor!"

By the time the DS2 came along, of course, the engineers had found out the hard way that a Force-skilled pilot could put a pair of proton torpedos down a 1 meter across thermal vent into the reactor, and thus armored it.

Why was the reactor unarmoured?

Try this experiment:

1. Start a fire in your fireplace.

2. Close the flue.

3. Wait five minutes.

Now you know why the reactor was "unarmoured".

SPOOFE wrote:

Why was the reactor unarmoured?

Try this experiment:

1. Start a fire in your fireplace.

2. Close the flue.

3. Wait five minutes.

Now you know why the reactor was "unarmoured".

How about "lock yourself in a room, eat alot of mexican, and start a lighter?

Connor MacLeod wrote:

SPOOFE wrote:

Why was the reactor unarmoured?

Try this experiment:

1. Start a fire in your fireplace.

2. Close the flue.

3. Wait five minutes.

Now you know why the reactor was "unarmoured".

How about "lock yourself in a room, eat alot of mexican, and start a lighter?

Cannibal!

YT300000 wrote:

Crazedwraith wrote:

YT300000 wrote: Woah. Something that small blew up the Death Star?

Its called a chain reaction

I still have trouble believing that a missile that small could penetrate the armour on a reactor 16 km across. Why was the reactor unarmoured?

Because they figured 80 kilometers of ship with heavy armor on top of that would be sufficient.

You don't armor reactors. Doing so would be retarded. There is no need, and it drasically interferes with heat transfer.

Point conceeded.