Re: Missiles in Space Combat?

On May 22, 1:10 am, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derk...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
AlfredMontestrucwrote:
Sure, but not from the whole volume of all space. If your forces are
grouped around Jupiter and it's moons and mine are grouped around the
Asteroid Ceres for example, you are claiming I could not launch a
spacecraft from my base to say Mars, and not have your people twig
that I did not do a maneuver to orbit Mars?

Sounds quite reasonable to me. One big clue is that your spacecraft
didn't decelerate to orbital velocity on its approach to Mars. Makes it
pretty obvious it didn't go into orbit around Mars.

Sounds like someone has not been doing any study of how to do orbital
maneuvering. The most effective place in the orbit to do a burn is at
or near closest approach to a gravity well, whether that is the earth,
moon mars or the sun.

If I am clever about it, you will see my ships go toward mars, pass
behind it, and appear to make orbit, and you fail to note that several
of them are decoys and the actual spacecraft burned in almost the
opposite direction much harder and then went into total silence mode
and put up mirrors facing you, that show a view from deep space,
before they are visible again to your position.

In case you are wondering, since we are already at war or in serious
prewar hostilities, robot observation probes of the other side are
shot on site to deny you view points, manned spacecraft of your flag
that venture into places we do not think your nation should be in get
boarded and siezed.

You do the same to me if you are smart.




If you have observation stations distant from Jupiter, my craft are
using radar stealth hulls, have the engines set as low as possible to
minimize IR output and still have life support,

You realize the background these ships are being looked for against is
about three degrees above absolute zero? If you've got life support,
forget about IR stealth - your ships are going to be blazing hot.


No they will have radiators dumping heat at perhaps 370 to 390 Kelvin
(around or over the boiling point of water) from the power supply and
life support system, which is not "Blazing hot" and is not a very
obvious thing to look for, as from a couple of AU you will need a
really big IR telescope to see them worth a damn at all, as these
ships are SMALL set next to planets or moons.



Especially considering in your scenario you do a slingshot near the Sun.

Where all the junk in orbit is really blazing hot, and we have mirrors
we are using both as shades and to prevent you from seeing us.

.

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