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DarthShady wrote:And...Stas makes one hell of a comeback.

And so does Karic.

SiegeTank wrote:Certainly- what kind of aircraft were you thinking of though? Ralson Aerospace already manufactures the Rafale-M, though I guess there might be a market for a Super Etendard/A-5 Vigilante type of aircraft.

PeZook wrote:Fingolfin, dude, how much does the DSP-1 weigh and where do you want it to go?

P.S.

If Karic is up, the Ana will be, too

Ryan Thunder wrote:By the way folks, Miratia is developing an extremely large rocket artillery/air defense platform that's pretty much a land-going battleship, designed to defend larger areas of Miratian territory from air and ground attack. This is necessary because of the fact that I have fewer than 15,000 soldiers trying to manage an area the size of Quebec.

Now, I realize that may strain credulity with some of you but well... I need it.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

Ryan Thunder wrote:By the way folks, Miratia is developing an extremely large rocket artillery/air defense platform that's pretty much a land-going battleship, designed to defend larger areas of Miratian territory from air and ground attack. This is necessary because of the fact that I have fewer than 15,000 soldiers trying to manage an area the size of Quebec.

Now, I realize that may strain credulity with some of you but well... I need it.

ER... might I recommend you ... use an extensive bunker system instead?

Ryan Thunder wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

Ryan Thunder wrote:By the way folks, Miratia is developing an extremely large rocket artillery/air defense platform that's pretty much a land-going battleship, designed to defend larger areas of Miratian territory from air and ground attack. This is necessary because of the fact that I have fewer than 15,000 soldiers trying to manage an area the size of Quebec.

Now, I realize that may strain credulity with some of you but well... I need it.

ER... might I recommend you ... use an extensive bunker system instead?

But that's so boringly typical.

It's more relocateable than mobile, anyways. It would sit in place for years at a time and probably never be much more vulnerable than a shallow bunker. Built-in radar, point-defense, intermediate range anti-aircraft, anti-tank, and anti-personnel missiles, mine-deploying missiles, etc. With extended radar support, it could engage targets the instant they cross the border.

Oh, are cluster bombs illegal by any international law here?

SiegeTank wrote:So Miratia is building Bolos now? Err, hokay... Do you perchance need any Hellbores developed?

PS: Wasn't Japanistan developing a similar sort of outrageous ubertank, before Skimmer dropped out?

PPS: As a whole though, I agree with Fingolfin. This idea sounds ridiculously impractical...

PeZook wrote:That "land battleship" idea is horrible. For a small country, the idea should be to scatter and conceal lots of highly mobile, autonomous advanced air defence platforms all over the place. Right now, it's one nuke explosion over it to fry its radar and your entire defence grid goes down

And no, Skimmer wasn't building an insane Bolo. His were 100+ tonne highly survivable urban assault tanks.

@ Wilkens (on the lunar landers):

Actually, Coyote isn't building lunar landers, he's building 112 tonne translunar shuttles. We'll probably move with something like that for space infrastructure:

Step 1: Automatic unmanned landers

Step 2: Small short-duration, low-capacity landers like the american LEM

Step 3: Large, long endurance landers (like the Altair or LK-700)

Step 4: Orbital space station

Step 5: Semi-permanent lunar habitats (perhaps several linked landers)

Step 6: Permanent outpost

Step 7: Industry!

The eagles would ferry passengers and cargo from the outpost/habitat to the space station, saving us costs on lifting the spaceship's superstructure to orbit every single time

PeZook wrote:That "land battleship" idea is horrible. For a small country, the idea should be to scatter and conceal lots of highly mobile, autonomous advanced air defence platforms all over the place. Right now, it's one nuke explosion over it to fry its radar and your entire defence grid goes down

And no, Skimmer wasn't building an insane Bolo. His were 100+ tonne highly survivable urban assault tanks.

@ Wilkens (on the lunar landers):

Actually, Coyote isn't building lunar landers, he's building 112 tonne translunar shuttles. We'll probably move with something like that for space infrastructure:

Step 1: Automatic unmanned landers

Step 2: Small short-duration, low-capacity landers like the american LEM

Step 3: Large, long endurance landers (like the Altair or LK-700)

Step 4: Orbital space station

Step 5: Semi-permanent lunar habitats (perhaps several linked landers)

Step 6: Permanent outpost

Step 7: Industry!

Step 8: ???

Step 9: Profit!

The eagles would ferry passengers and cargo from the outpost/habitat to the space station, saving us costs on lifting the spaceship's superstructure to orbit every single time

Karmic Knight wrote:Corrected that.

Also, I have a question about the flights, is there a reason you put the Communist and the Hypercapitalist in the same flight team?

Ryan Thunder wrote:Well I haven't really announced it, so I'm going to pretend I was researching submersible helicopter assault carriers instead. Does anybody want to set up a deal building them?

Ryan Thunder wrote:Well I haven't really announced it, so I'm going to pretend I was researching submersible helicopter assault carriers instead. Does anybody want to set up a deal building them?