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Pretty much. In fact, going over their Scientist-class Super-Dreadnoughts, they are actually somewhat impressively well armed (if in the wrong manner) for their size. 32M, 24L, 26G, 16CM and 32PD per broadside on a 6.8MT ship. The closest Manticorean analog is the Bellerophon-class Dreadnoughts. (Wh...

At Spindle , Terekhov's command used the Apollo control missiles' FTL transmitters to shorten the control loop. Here, Yau-Pau is using his recon drones' FTL transmitters to get up-to-the-instant targeting data... but that doesn't enable him to control more missiles than he otherwise could. At least...

Ground forces tech? Lets start with their shoulder-fired Impeller Missiles. Those, the size of a MANPAD? Are likely going to outright kill Reapers. Yes, I just said their MANPAD analog is going to kill a Reaper. Some calculations of the kinetic energy of them... puts them in the range of Dreadnough...

Ground forces tech? Lets start with their shoulder-fired Impeller Missiles. Those, the size of a MANPAD? Are likely going to outright kill Reapers. Yes, I just said their MANPAD analog is going to kill a Reaper. Some calculations of the kinetic energy of them... puts them in the range of Dreadnought...

For that matter, think of the chutzpah involved in anyone's thinking they could actually overthrow something as big and powerful as the Solarian League! Anybody willing to take that on would look at destabilizing something as small as the Old Republic as an exercise in light lifting. For that matte...

Apparently they've arranged dozens of rebellions as part of this too. The plan fully laid out.

Yeah, thats in Shadow of Freedom, the opening act of such begins roughly now.

Wait a second? That source. Is it Honor's uncle?

He is highly placed enough to have it and given how he gets involved in the next few books.. timing sort of fits as well.

One of Manticore's plan for fighting the League, close the wormholes to Solly shipping, then engage in commerce raiding and seize every wormhole they can lay their hands on which is what, Phoenix, Erewhon and Torch? They may want to think twice about those last two at least. There is more Wormholes...

Because Nevada-class vessels are only just being introduced and thus post-date the Laserhead. Its incredibly likely the Scientist class is around 100+ years old. You see a massive increase in counter-missile focus in every navy after the Laserhead was introduced. Pre-Laserhead you had more PD cluste...

Yeah, in circa 1900 PD fleet doctrine, missiles seemed to be used to soften the enemy up prior to the decisive beam engagement. In the hopes of decreasing the amount of damage you take, because decisive beam engagements from memory seem to be fairly mutually destructive.

That would be 6 Invictius. Remember, Manty Battle Squadrons are 6 now.

Take advantage of the instability and have their freighters "destroyed by ex-State Security pirates."?

By this point? Depends on when you put the start point. Getting close to 15 years IIRC.

Or just sail the completed vessels to uninhabited systems with skeleton crews and transfer their crews over.

Yeah, even if they weren't originally producing the ships entirely self-sufficiently? Given they would have some, they can build the rest of the required infrastructure themselves. And probably already have since the war went hot again.

I have in fact read the bits you're thinking of some time ago, and walked away feeling distinctly unsatisfied. Besides which, I shouldn't have to trawl through the Baen forums to understand key parts of Weber's books, they should be able to support themselves. Oh, I don't disagree. I actually think...

Kingmaker wrote:There was a real British soldier from WW I/II nicknamed "Salamander", which is probably where Weber got it from.

I am insulted. He was a New Zealander dammit! But yeah, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg

Bolthole could probably do so with the Republic of Haven intact . Somebody has to pay for those ships and supply the material they're built from and at this point in the narrative Honor absolutely is in a position to dismantle Haven's entire industrial base with impunity even if she can't just forc...

That will also be incredibly time-consuming. They still have to find Bolthole after-all because from the implied scale of the operation, even if they destroy every other shipyard complex Haven possesses... Bolthole can likely build them an entire new navy inside of a decade, thousand odd ships of th...

Yeah, probably the best book in awhile.

The entire sequence to do with the Hexapuma... at first when I read Mission of Honor, I hadn't read Shadow of Saganami. Now that I have... its kinda painful to read the Hexapuma parts of Mission of Honor.

Uh. Fairly sure those Mark 17-Es aren't MDMs (Be it full-up or DDMs) but instead extended time single-drive missiles. Like the missiles the Saganami-B is equipped to fire. The Erewhon made MDMs hadn't arrived yet.

Um-proton torpedoes aren't kinetic impactors you now, they 'do' have warheads. Warheads that can threaten Wars warships, which have shields that can pretty much ignore anything the Honorverse can throw at them. Yeah, but they have to get CLOSE enough to detonate. Does it help them much if they get ...

A CM's ability to kill most fighters I don't question, and yes, if the fighter uses gravity manipulation/space warp technology (Trek Warp drive, Perryverse Metagrav, the Minbari gravimagnetic -or something to that effect-drive etc) gravitics should be of some use. But what of fighters that use reac...

Also tells you the Indefatigable-class has been (or rather was) in production for awhile. Given they are up to Flight VII.