HAB Reality Defying Munition passes it's first tests

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2007-03-22 06:08pm

Now there's a versus argument I've never seen.

Muy cool.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-03-22 06:24pm

I can only assume we made an Ack-Ack with AM filled shells.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-03-22 07:27pm

Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2007-03-22 07:37pm

The massive tidal wave that will be created when it hits the ocean might be a bit problematic for those gunners.

LaserRifleofDoom · Post by **LaserRifleofDoom** » 2007-03-22 07:49pm

Seggybop wrote:The massive tidal wave that will be created when it hits the ocean might be a bit problematic for those gunners.

Everyone's going to die in that picture. Except the people in pressure-tight compartments inside the ISD.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-03-23 05:58am

Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.

Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.

AniThyng · Post by **AniThyng** » 2007-03-23 07:44am

Lord Pounder wrote:
Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.

I think he means the scaling in the picture is all wrong for a 1.6km long object, it's more like 20 meters

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-03-23 04:01pm

Lord Pounder wrote:
Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.

I re-iterate my statement with some emphasis for clarity: "that ISD is not a mile long."

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-03-23 05:29pm

Adrian Laguna wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:
Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.
I re-iterate my statement with some emphasis for clarity: "that ISD is not a mile long."

Clearly it's a PSD... a Princess-Class Star Destroyer... 'cuz that's one big pussy!

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2007-03-23 08:17pm

reality defying indeed! It shot down and shrank the target with one hit!

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-03-23 08:19pm

Isolder74 wrote:reality defying indeed! It shot down and shrank the target with one hit!

If Duke Nukem can do it why can't the navy?

OmegaGuy · Post by **OmegaGuy** » 2007-03-24 04:10am

Reminds me of a quote from some CBR tard: "An Imperial Star Destroyer has no more firepower than a WW2 Battleship, probably less".

Post by **fgalkin** » 2007-03-24 04:24pm

Adrian Laguna wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:
Adrian Laguna wrote:Pretty good except for one thing, that ISD is not a mile long. Very amusing, nevertheless.
Yeah it is, 1600 meters or 1 mile. Thank you come again.
I re-iterate my statement with some emphasis for clarity: "that ISD is not a mile long."

How do you know? That thing is probably miles away.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-03-24 07:31pm

The smoke and assorted debris is too sharp for it to be "miles away". Though the crappy quality of the ISD picture contradicts this. However, taking all the elements as a whole it seems that it's more likely the ISD is not big enough than it being really far.

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-03-25 01:20am

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.

Crix Dorius · Post by **Crix Dorius** » 2007-03-25 09:40am

darthbob88 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.

WTF ?!? Oo

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-03-25 08:30pm

Crix Dorius wrote:
darthbob88 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.
WTF ?!? Oo

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.

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2007-03-25 09:53pm

But HAB munitions have effective ranges so great that mecha 1000 miles away explode when it is simply loaded. I would not be suprized if the effect of this round was to detonate the hypermatter stores, or at least increase them to their actual real-world mass. Ouch.

kheegster · Post by **kheegster** » 2007-03-26 11:03pm

They are on a U-boat. "ALAAAAAAARM!!!"