2018年3月26日 · Space is a 3D environment where no stealth is possible because since space is cold, the tiniest amount of heat would radiate like a beacon. Most combat would be based on bringing your weapons to bear on the enemy as fast as possible, maneuvering as fast as possible or simply having redundant systems and long range firepower capability.

2015年3月20日 · This is why these questions matter: Space - even planetary orbital space - is big. (This is neatly discussed here.) Whatever your "realistic fighters" are going to be doing, it will not be a lot like aerial dogfights. This, I think, is the main reason that classical SF space forces were thought of as being analogous to naval, rather than air ...

2020年8月31日 · A great source for some legit space combat strategies is the game Children of a Dead Earth, definitely worth it if you like to play with real tech based space combat and orbital maneuvers. Also, unless you're looking to recreate WWII dog fights in …

2020年8月30日 · The size of the sensor aperture is a thing, and any space warship at a fixed post (like a space station or whatever) with sensor aperture not measured in thousands of km can be considered blind. Of course this is just one more thing your pirates need to …

2020年4月18日 · Having your radiators tactically protected from enemy fire by the armor shape of your space warship is nice, but having a regular one or double-sided radiators is still a vulnerability. Other concepts such as liquid droplet and electrostatic radiators seem to be too complex and require much more power.

2017年6月20日 · Would future space admirals favor huge ships, or smaller ones? Huge ships obviously. It's not a strategic choice but an ego thing. A huge ship is a massive show of power. Now in space, huge ship would be preferable (like an aircraft carrier). The ship would actually be a giant factory, building and repairing drones.

2022年7月11日 · Any reasonable space based warship will have. lots of automation; fly by wire; instrument based visualization and location systems; There is no need to base the helm close to a non-existent rudder with a observation platform/bridge near enough for a captain to shout orders to. Therefor the bridge may be placed anywhere.

2017年4月25日 · Able to withstand the strains of space travel (containing internal atmospheric pressures, radiation shielding, microscopic impacts on a ship hitting 400000mph etc) It doesn't need to be able to land as the ship was launched from and will remain in space throughout its life. Armoured from attacks of anything up to a large non-nuclear missile.

2019年9月28日 · Space is treacherous, and in most cases a single hit is probably enough to "kill" your ship (especially with any weapon designed to do so). So, if you're engaging in space combat it doesn't make sense to put all of your people on a single ship. The more you are spread out the harder it will be to kill a significant number of your forces.

2019年8月21日 · The Scale of Space makes battleships - or any warship - infeasible and unnecessary. Space is really big - no matter how big you think it is, it is way bigger. To traverse the vast distances involved you need to accelerate to unfathomable speeds, and stay at these speeds for unfathomable amounts of time.