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hi hi And if there was air and water in space at terrestrial densities, that could be relevant. Specific examples, please. If the Umiak launch torpedoes at 2,000 megameters, the Loroi still pass by the Umiak position in 671 seconds, while the Umiak torpedoes are still 229 seconds away from their ta...

hi hi Space is not the air. Spacecraft are not aircraft. Space is not a sea. Spacecraft are not seacraft. Physics - one for all. A fleet of Loroi raiders can charge an Umiak fleet at a conservative speed of 3 megameters per second. Since they have better acceleration, they can choose the distance t...

...do you mean "turkey shoot?" If that's the case, then what happened in the comic was the exact opposite of a turkey shoot. The Umiak have a numerical advantage, but the Loroi have a maneuver advantage and a range advantage. Hence, the idiom does not fit. As will be shown below, torpedoes umiak la...

Hi, Mr. Bojangles! I hope I would still be able to say something new. :oops: Noticed a difference in thinking. For me, challenge, the function is more important than the result. Decoy flying near the ship, not the target. The fact that the ship is flying to the enemy, and decoy with it - for me it d...

You ask a lot of repetitive questions in the thread. I will answer only to the original. If the Umiak wait to fire torpedoes until they enter medium range, then the Loroi will be able to safely fire on their ships the entire time. medium-range torpedoes fly twice as far as the best long-range guns s...

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hi hi Then the decoy can easily be ignored. Ignore the enemy decoy, mimics a ship, then do not shoot at enemy ships. The Loroi strike groups have superior acceleration and are in the position to choose when and where to engage the Umiak at their leisure. A medium torpedo might be able to accelerate...

... and becomes more likely to fail the closer the decoy gets to it's target. I have many times said that the appointment of decoy do not fly to the target. The Loroi apparently believe that if they wait for the torpedoes to enter medium-range before they start shooting at them, then the torpedoes ...

Kikitik would have been a heavy captain and quincunx squadron commander... subsequently promoted to division commander and eventually relegated to bivouac duty... Kikitik's division... that triple-size division with 10 superheavies is no suicide force. Where can I read the materials of the structur...

It is quite obvious that Kikitik-27 is not a conventional Umiak commander, what with his habit of withdrawing rather than charging recklessly to his doom, etc. Somewhere there are comics on the world, where there are examples of "normal umiak" and a few fights? When reading these statements appears...

I imagine the language barrier is what's leading to all this confusion, jack, but I'll try again: A truly thank you for your patience! I know. All the major combatants have complex, highly developed economies and industries. Humanity in Outsider is complex and highly developed. That's pretty much a...

Oh, so you admit that you're not really reading our posts! :lol: You copied the questions that have already been convicted in this topic. I can copy the answers written earlier. But I am sure that it is better not to make too much flooding. Gunboats, with the support of the mothership navigation sy...

Actually, they can. It has been stated in these forums and the Insider that the Umiak are absolute masters of mass production. Not only can they mass produce weaponry and ships, they can also mass produce themselves. And, they can do so in staggering numbers. Mass production requires a complex, hig...

hi hi There is no convection of thermal energy in space, and radiators do not look like exhaust. The ADM-20B was so bad at it's job that the Strategic Air Command wrote the USAF Chief of Staff and said that it was "Only slightly better than nothing," and it was discontinued shortly after as a faile...

Except that seemingly the Umiak don't care too much about losses, so might see the use of a dedicated decoy a loss of direct offensive power in the heat of battle, because of the resources used for it. If Umiak would act in such a way they would not have reached its current can. Still, more mass fo...

Anything capable of recreating the level of heat and radiation created by a ship's reactor would likely be just as expensive as the reactor it is pretending to be... The size and complexity of these devices continues to grow. Tight groupings of ships is something that does not happen in the Outside...

hi hi In space, there is no way to mask a decoy's mass and fuel. If it uses some kind of cheaper conventional fuel, the exhaust will clearly be different. If they make the decoy lighter, but give it the same engine, it will accelerate much faster and then burn out early. If they reduce the power ou...

Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. The reason a torpedo could never be created that mimics the signatures created by a space ship is because of the HUGE differences between the energy emitted by a missile and a ship. To quote THIS site: All right. The site is very good. I read it and like it. But ...

Arioch wrote: I realize that the language barrier is a problem, but don't blame other people because you are not making yourself clear. We are having difficulty understanding what you're saying.

If I have offended - excuse me. Smiley in the proposal because it was a joke.

It IS possible to create a decoy. What Arioch is saying is that if, as you said, a decoy is just as expensive as a real torpedo, there would be no reason not to just fire a real torpedo instead. The only way a decoy is useful is if it less expensive than an actual weapon. The example you have liste...