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minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoPeople don’t read enough hard sci-fi, in a realistic space battle you use missiles and other projectiles because they don’t heat up your ship If you have any kind of laser crap, you need to dissipate the heat and that requires surface area And that surface area is an easy target for your enemy’s kinetics… take out the cooling system and everyone is cooked alive. Nice.
minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoThe positive is that lasers are undodgable by any means other than random jinking at distances where the light travel delay is significant which can force your enemy to waste all their fuel or die.
People don’t read enough hard sci-fi, in a realistic space battle you use missiles and other projectiles because they don’t heat up your ship
If you have any kind of laser crap, you need to dissipate the heat and that requires surface area
And that surface area is an easy target for your enemy’s kinetics… take out the cooling system and everyone is cooked alive. Nice.
The positive is that lasers are undodgable by any means other than random jinking at distances where the light travel delay is significant which can force your enemy to waste all their fuel or die.