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Offline Ace

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on: July 22, 2005, 05:05:18 am


The Hammerhead. Speculate.
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Offline Silent Warrior

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Reply #1 on: July 22, 2005, 09:29:22 am
That's the... ugliest missile I've ever seen!
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Offline Goober5000

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Reply #2 on: July 22, 2005, 10:45:41 am
It must be a tactical weapon.

It flies over to enemy fighters and goes :hammer: until they get so frazzled they don't know friend from foe. :p
 

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Reply #3 on: July 22, 2005, 11:13:20 am
Looks like 'splosion time! :p
 

Offline Taristin

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Reply #4 on: July 22, 2005, 01:52:25 pm
I sincerely hope that that is a prank.
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Offline achtung

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Reply #5 on: July 22, 2005, 02:01:23 pm
It needs a :hammer: insignia on it.:D
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Offline Blaise Russel

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Reply #6 on: July 22, 2005, 02:24:22 pm
World's first propellor-driven bomb?
 

Offline StratComm

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Reply #7 on: July 22, 2005, 02:45:04 pm
In space! :p

Seriously though, it's extremely unorthodox but it's growing on me.

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Offline Taristin

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Reply #8 on: July 22, 2005, 02:51:02 pm
I don't even see how a vessel could fire one of those...
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Offline Ace

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Reply #9 on: July 22, 2005, 04:33:17 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Raa
I don't even see how a vessel could fire one of those...


The warhead cylinder and "wings" expand out. The extra space is needed in the warhead for the binary weapon to properly react.
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Offline Akalabeth Angel

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Reply #10 on: July 23, 2005, 03:38:28 am
My guess is that it's like the Cluster Bomb, but rather than launch like 12 mini-hornets, it'll launch like 2 Interceptors . . . or whatever the missile's called in FS2 (I forget).
 

Offline BlackDove

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Reply #11 on: July 23, 2005, 05:33:17 am
Fish.
 

Offline Moonsword

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Reply #12 on: July 23, 2005, 06:56:41 pm
Binary weapon...?  React...?  That brings to mind one thing: boom.  Big ****ing boom.

As for the appearance, it looks like you kitbashed a crouquet mallet and a Harpoon missile.
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Reply #13 on: July 23, 2005, 10:59:43 pm
Each of the two cylinders contain some kind of reactants, which must be slammed together at high speed in order to detonate.  A micro-second prior to target impact, those 2 reactants are fired towards each other, causing a massive explosion when they touch each other.  Recall "Little Boy", which required 2 pieces of enriched Uranium to be slammed together at high speed to detonate.  Granted, the uranium was fired lengthwise, down the internal of the bomb cylinder, but you get the idea.
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Offline Akalabeth Angel

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Reply #14 on: July 23, 2005, 11:48:51 pm
If two elements had to be slammed into one another, you could just half them at opposing points in a cyclinder. Like:

(Nose-Stuff1-Space-Stuff2-Fuel-Engine<

You don't need to have some complicated, spring out mechanism.
 

Offline Pnakotus

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Reply #15 on: July 24, 2005, 12:12:49 am
I bet it needs to be in that configuration to ... erm... direct the energy of the explosion.  Yeah, thats it... :nod:
 

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Reply #16 on: July 24, 2005, 02:24:00 am
I think it's a Terran weapon.
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Offline Ace

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Reply #17 on: July 27, 2005, 01:34:43 am
Ahh... but what flavor of Terran?
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Offline Akalabeth Angel

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Reply #18 on: July 27, 2005, 02:21:59 am
I hope it's lemon merangue, I love lemon merangue (too bad I probably can't spell it worth a damn eh?)
 

Offline IPAndrews

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Reply #19 on: July 27, 2005, 07:37:21 am
For the record: I am neither seething, nor a mass. Oh and the missile looks like that silly ship from Battle Beyond the Stars.
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