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Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:58:14 -0700 Andy from private IP, post #16325720 /all Favorite outgoing email of all time This is in my top three for sure. #Hobbies #Programming #Technology Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:30:35 -0700 phosita from private IP Reply #11326711 Heh. Manuevers up to 10G. See what ya did there. Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:32:06 -0700 Andy from private IP Reply #19855992 Thank you for your past comments, they were helpful. Incidentally, in addition to launching defensive missiles, it may be simpler to just create an aerial minefield of proximity-fused drones that the HGV has to fly through. Threading the needle through a dense aerial minefield at Mach 5+ would impossible, even with 10G turns. Solar-powered balloons carrying drones at particular altitudes could loiter indefinitely or be launched at the start of a conflict. I like this variant of the concept and will be adding this at some point. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 08:53:39 -0700 phosita from private IP Reply #19733602 👍 Ah so, like, buzzword compliant drones instead of WW2 barrage balloons? Now let's say a munition is inbound at M5+ and you interdict it at some distance from you, r. What result if r is: 1 meter; 10 meters; 100 meters; 1000 meters; or some large distance. Obvs does you no good to interdict the munition if too close, and so you have to interdict it at some "safe" distance. Ask yourself this: as r increases, what happens to the number of drones required to provide coverage? The number increases as the square of r. You can decrease the number of drones needed for a given r by making their charges more powerful, but the scaling issue remains because math. For simplicity's sake, let's suppose you've covered your target with a hemispherical fabric of loitering drones, at whatever radius from the target and at whatever density you choose. The Soviets fire a first HGV at you, and you somehow manage to knock it out. Congrats! Now your fabric has a giant hole in it not only because you've sacrificed nonzero drones but probably also because the HGV fukkin detonated and took out even more of your drones. This leaves you with a suboptimal fabric, which you must repair. That's some combination of (a) launching more drones to replace those just killed; and (b) redistributing remaining drones aloft to make a (more porous) fabric until you can hopefully effect (a) fully. If your adversary can sustain a high enough rate of fire that you can never get (a) and/or (b) done in time then you're hosed. Here's another thought experiment for you: let's say you know Moffett is a target. Pretty sweet airfield, after all. And let's also say you intend to fly a hemisphere of drones around it. Well, w00t, I guess. But you've also denied yourself use of the airfield unless you add, further, some crafty idea for getting drones out of a departure/arrival position if you need to land or take off an aircraft. (Caution wake turbulence!) Time for almond tinkering. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:21:59 -0700 Andy from private IP Reply #13936616 I'll just say what everyone is thinking: @phositaTest is the freaking Man. Very helpful and appreciated.Replies require login.
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