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- From: NETOPRBL@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu (Brian Lane)
- Subject: Space based combat--the next frontier
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:31:04 GMT
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- >
- >ok....here's a question for all you space buffs out there...
- >This is actually for a story i'm writing but I figured that the
- >folks here could give me a good estimate...
- >If we consider combat in space in say...the next 50 years...there are three
- >limitations: the effectiveness of the weapon, the effectiveness of sensors
- >to detect the target , and the effectiveness of fire control to aim the
- >weapon so it can hit the detected target.
- >Let's say that two sides have somehing the size of a naval destroyer out in
- >deep space somewhere. how close would they have to be before radar could
- >pick the other ship up, how about passive sensors (what kind of sensors
- >would they be?)? How close would they have to be to get an adequate fire
- >control solution? (I assume the energy weapon they'r using (laser or some
- >other energy weapon) would have a longer range than the fire control.)
- >
- >I'd appreciate it if replies were sent in e-mail (and i'd post a edited
- >compendium of the results), as I don't get on here often enough to avoid
- >the reader's clearing of messages.
- >
- >thanx!
- >Brian
- >Netoprbl@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu
- >Raleigh, NC
- >
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