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Vagabond
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 Posted: 28-Jul-2009 08:26 Post subject: Make shift orbital bombardment weapons |
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I was reading up on Warships when an idea i had a long time ago returned to me and then turned into a new idea. It was a section on Warship/Jumpship technology that i was reading that was phrased as a professor criticizing universe practices; specifically, he was commenting on the hillarity of the designations corvette, frigate, cruiser, and battleship in a universe were the nations are overlooking or blatantly ignoring these roles for a destroy-them-all mission role. I agree with this assessment and remembered when a designed a Federated Sun regional response fleet designed to support a RCT. The idea was a self contained fleet with Command Ship [a fleet carrier], Battleships and Heavy Cruiser for picket and direct-fire support, Cruisers/Destroyers/Frigates as picket and anti-fighter support, assault drop ships, carrier drop ships, plus Jumpships and drop ships to move the RTC and supply the cargo necessary to support a invasion or relief effort. Even included 2 special purpose dropships: LZ Firesupport and Orbital Command craft. It was this 2nd dropship that I was remembering: it had dedicated tonnage to comm equipment, a HPG, and extra rooms for 1st class passengers. I figured that this could serve as a key stone for planetary efforts, coordinate troop movements, and serve as a contact to central command. However, i went one step further and added a bank of Capital Missile launchers; if a unit gets into trouble the idea was they could call in fire support and within minutes have a barrage of Capital Missiles raining down on the enemy. Good idea, no?
So this leads me to my point, would you need Capital Missiles or could you modify an already present system on most military dropships to serve as orbital fire support? It may not as versatile as CapMissiles but if you have some laser designators handy it could be devastating. If BT has satellite guided munitions, it can serve to hurt immobile or anticipated targets as well. My idea is this: Take a Battlemech orbital insertion pod, engineer an internal support frame, and then load it with 50 to 75 tons conventional bombs. Whala, make shift orbital support munition.
Imagine one of these pods flaring through the upper atmosphere, deceleration chute slowing the pod as it continues towards its target, until reaching a designated altitude were the pod detonates its charges and frees the bomb rack from its shell. Then at a lower altitude the bomb rack still slowed by the deceleration chute releases its multiple bombs in a tight grouping that fills an area or target with several dozen tear drops of death.
Use laser designated bombs and you got a rain-o-death. Even if you don't, if you program the rack to release its load at a low enough altitude you can avoid a spread and drift greater then those of high-altitude bombers.
What do you all think?
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