Hegemony

[Seraphi]

Sigh. There is no realistically feasible way of stopping a bomb, short of firing a giant trampoline with thrusters attached to it.

 

Of course, taht wouldn't work either due to air resistance.

[Grim_]

Actually with advanced targeting systems and a [cabbage] tonne of them you could use lasers to cut it up or detonate it.

[VEGHATERMEATLOVER]

Sigh. There is no realistically feasible way of stopping a bomb, short of firing a giant trampoline with thrusters attached to it.

 

Genius!

Beginning research on Giant trampolines with thrusters attached to it.

[The_Mather1]

Rapid PEPs? Pushing it away slowly.

[Seraphi]

Grim, cutting unprecisely will lead to it detonating above your city, and since we're talking nuclear bombs, the damage would still be pretty catastrophic.

 

Slowly pushing a bomb away which is moving at several dozen feet per minute downwards doesn't seem like the best idea. You'd probably just make it spin or something.

 

The best bomb protection is preventing it from being dropped in the first place.

[Grim_]

@rocco Yes but you would have systems to shoot it down already (or at least you should)

 

Hmm what would be a way to stop a nuke short of just shooting the plane down ahead of time?

[archimage_a]

I was thinking...what about some sort of White-Blood Cell type defence.

 

Fire a missile up which then explodes into a large net made of a heavy duty metal. Inertia carries it skyward(towards the missile...hopefully) and when it hits the missile it either explodes the missile or wraps round it then detonates...or deploys a second stage booster system.

[Nero]

@rocco Yes but you would have systems to shoot it down already (or at least you should)

 

Hmm what would be a way to stop a nuke short of just shooting the plane down ahead of time?

pre-emptive strike.

[Icuownage]

Theres only so much you can stuff into a bomb, missiles are more destructuve, while bombs are more difficult to actually defend against.

[VEGHATERMEATLOVER]

I was thinking...what about some sort of White-Blood Cell type defence.

 

Fire a missile up which then explodes into a large net made of a heavy duty metal. Inertia carries it skyward(towards the missile...hopefully) and when it hits the missile it either explodes the missile or wraps round it then detonates...or deploys a second stage booster system.

I agree with that, but if you used a sort of insulated material so that when the bomb detonates not as much happens.

[Grim_]

Yep but missiles are non reusable while a good stratos fighter/bomber is.

[The_Mather1]

Or shoot it with pulsed infrared lasers which causes expansion of matter to create a plasma explotion which propels it back up, in other words rapid PEPs.

[Icuownage]

I'd rather launch a 500 Million dollar missile than use a 1.5 Billion dollar stratos jet that costs 1.5 Billion to actually use... Each time.

[archimage_a]

Or shoot it with pulsed infrared lasers which causes expansion of matter to create a plasma explotion which propels it back up, in other words rapid PEPs.

 

Now you just have to solve the power(Inverse Square Law for the win) and targetting problem.

 

After you conquer a country, is there still going to be resistance in it? Because that ruined me last game.

No

[Grim_]

A couple fusion reactors and a mass of super computers?

[archimage_a]

Yeah, that will probably let you intercept a couple of missiles. Let me run the figures.

[The_Mather1]

Archi, does infrared laser bursts say massive power consumption to you? Cuz it sure doesn't to me. And aiming is just pointing at the bomb, trajectory/speed calculations aren't neccessary with lasers.

[Grim_]

Your transmitting heat (energy) wirelessly over long distances. To me that spells out the need for massive amounts of power.

[archimage_a]

Archi, does infrared laser bursts say massive power consumption to you? Cuz it sure doesn't to me. And aiming is just pointing at the bomb, trajectory/speed calculations aren't neccessary with lasers.

This is why we don't let you near math...

Trajectory and speed are still necessary, since working out where the missile is sort of helps...And since it is pulsed...

 

Anywho. 'Energy to blow up a missile at 10 kilometers' says massive energy consumption...

[Grim_]

Heh the Chinese regiments of the french army have finished training .

[Nexaduro]

Archi, can you set up a poll for the new Dungeoneering mod?

[The_Mather1]

Notw it up, push it away, PEPs are under developement as anti-riot weapons, they are made to knock you back and stun you, though they can also be made to kill.

 

And a laser fires at the speed of light, only current location is needed as the future one will depend on the hit. Just hook them up to a radar and the job's (almost) done.

[VEGHATERMEATLOVER]

Heh the Chinese regiments of the french army have finished training .

The what???????

[Icuownage]

Does training your troops actually help, cause I'm thinking I could just set an army of a million in a year and conquer places.. And not train a small army for 5 years.

[archimage_a]

Notw it up, push it away, PEPs are under developement as anti-riot weapons, they are made to knock you back and stun you, though they can also be made to kill.

 

Great...instead of a missile blowing up an airbase you just blew up a hospital. Righous ownage...

 

And a laser fires at the speed of light, only current location is needed as the future one will depend on the hit. Just hook them up to a radar and the job's (almost) done.

Sigh... Which one of us is moderator?

Hooking a laser up to a radar is a foolish idea.

As was shown with the Divid Gun...

 

As early production examples started rolling off the production line, the problems proved to be just as serious. One of the early models is reported to have locked onto a latrine fan, mistaking its return for a moving target of low-priority. Reporting on the incident in another article on the vehicle's woes, Easterbrook reported that "During a test one DIVAD locked on to a latrine fan. Michael Duffy, a reporter for the industry publication Defense Week, who broke this aspect of the story, received a conference call in which Ford officials asked him to describe the target as a 'building fan' or 'exhaust fan' instead."