Rachel Silverside
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CCP Eterne wrote:Even the projectile weapons in New Eden are highly advanced. The principles behind them are simplistic, but the weapons themselves are not. They're probably not as "advanced" as hybrids, but they're still pretty advanced.
I'd actually probably declare missiles to be the most advanced weapon system, because there's a missile which deals ONLY kinetic damage. How does that even work?
Hypervelocity impacts have the same effect as an explosion. It's got to do with physics and mathsGÇö and thus it's annoying to figure outGÇö but anything moving over 3km/s will generate a fireball when it impacts a surface.
As an aside (and because I have nothing better to do) here is a link to a website that can help you figure out the effects of an impact on water of differing depths and on soil of differing compositions. It's really only useful for working out the effects of an orbital bombardment* but it's very interesting to learn what a one ton iridium sphere can do to a city when it hits at 30km's. It should be easy enough to use but if you need any help just ask.
*However it would really only be useful for kinetic weapons and lasers due to how they transfer energy. If you're dealing with missiles then you'll have to use a nuke effect calculator.
Eija-Riitta Veitonen wrote:Lukas Flamesword wrote:Saul Elsyn wrote:CCP Eterne wrote:Even the projectile weapons in New Eden are highly advanced. The principles behind them are simplistic, but the weapons themselves are not. They're probably not as "advanced" as hybrids, but they're still pretty advanced.
I'd actually probably declare missiles to be the most advanced weapon system, because there's a missile which deals ONLY kinetic damage. How does that even work? Easy, no warhead but a lug of iron. It's a kinetic kill vehicle... burns out it's motor and just hits the target at ridiculously high velocities. Now the EMP missiles, those are complex XD actually not. because nukes makes an EMP blast. so EM missiles are just nukes that detonates beside a ship. damaging the shield more than it would if it exploded like they normally do (Thermal missiles are nukes. i heard that somewhere) I'm pretty sure EM missiles involve antimatter, either for direct use or to feed the EMP generator. And plasma fusion bombs do provide more heat than fission nukes.
While you can't really get an EMP in space due to the lack of an atmosphere** you can use X-rays and Microwaves in order to get a similar effect. From what i understand it has to do with generating a difference in charge within or between conductive surfaces. I may be recalling it incorrectly, but this difference in charge causes a current to flow and fries any electronic device that it flows through provided that the device is insufficiently hardened.
**EMP generation is weird but a small amount of atmosphere is necessary. |