[S-99]

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FS2 era craft have near shivan-level sensors.
Craft prior to the Great War, required a Radar Dish to assist their sensors.
Following the Capture of Shivan sensors during the Great War, Sensors were upgraded fleetwide.
The upgraded sensors, eliminated the need for Radar dishes in future designs like the Hecate.
However, The Radar dish was built heavily in to existing craft that used it, meaning that to remove it would compromise ship opporations.
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Actually i have no idea on what the Radar Dish does.

Sounds feasible considering star trek did the same thing switching from external to internal deflector dishes.

[Snail]

So if Star Trek decided that the universe is actually made out of giant blobs of cheese and curry mixed in with rock salt, would it be feasible?

[MarkN]

Sounds feasable considering the conformal arrays being planned for the Zumwalt-class (DD(X)), or the internal radars on modern fighters.
On the other hand, I have no idea what use a single stationary dish is for a spaceship, with multiple angles of approach. Remember, a dish is directional.

[Snail]

I'm more inclined to think the radar dishes are more sophisticated, like maybe they have gamma scanners or something.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

I'd say that the GTVA had better sensors than the Shivans- we were able to find cruisers and colonies of gas miners before they found our capships in the Nebula...

Or they just didn't attack us Shivan logic?

[S-99]

So if Star Trek decided that the universe is actually made out of giant blobs of cheese and curry mixed in with rock salt, would it be feasible?

Yes because you will just go ahead and ignore similarities. Miss my point day. The idea of internal sensory and comm systems is that it's feasible. It's sort of like today in real life how many cell phones have internal antennae's as opposed to the older kind which had external ones.

If a system once external made it's way into a the same system that's now internal and just as good to rely upon as the old one. Then i'd say radar dishes are no more advanced than internal sensory and comm systems of fs2 era ships since they have no radar dishes. Benefit of internal systems instead of external? Internal sensory and comm systems are harder to find and take out than just blasting off the radar dishes.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

RADAR dishes don't make any sense to begin with.  You would think they would be using LIDAR. 

[Retsof]

They could be using SU(subspace)DAR for all we know.  They do seem to have FTL sensors.  Could just be called radar because just a standard term.

[Snail]

Yes because you will just go ahead and ignore similarities. Miss my point day. The idea of internal sensory and comm systems is that it's feasible. It's sort of like today in real life how many cell phones have internal antennae's as opposed to the older kind which had external ones.

If a system once external made it's way into a the same system that's now internal and just as good to rely upon as the old one. Then i'd say radar dishes are no more advanced than internal sensory and comm systems of fs2 era ships since they have no radar dishes. Benefit of internal systems instead of external? Internal sensory and comm systems are harder to find and take out than just blasting off the radar dishes.

My point was, whatever Star Trek does has nothing to do with FS2.

[BengalTiger]

I'd say that the GTVA had better sensors than the Shivans- we were able to find cruisers and colonies of gas miners before they found our capships in the Nebula...

Or they just didn't attack us Shivan logic?

Maybe... but it is a fact that the GTVA began the hunt before the Shivans found our capships.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Before they attacked our capships, yes. Before they found our capships, who knows? For some crazy Shivan reason, they might have waited before they attacked

[Snail]

Well the Shivans didn't have AWACS (save for the Sath) and were fully capable of locating our ships.

[BengalTiger]

Once they lost 2 cruisers and an SD they might have simply combed the Nebula*


*- Minor language warning, minors beware.

[terran_emperor]

Sounds feasible considering star trek did the same thing switching from external to internal deflector dishes.

So if Star Trek decided that the universe is actually made out of giant blobs of cheese and curry mixed in with rock salt, would it be feasible?

Yes because you will just go ahead and ignore similarities. Miss my point day. The idea of internal sensory and comm systems is that it's feasible. It's sort of like today in real life how many cell phones have internal antennae's as opposed to the older kind which had external ones.

If a system once external made it's way into a the same system that's now internal and just as good to rely upon as the old one. Then i'd say radar dishes are no more advanced than internal sensory and comm systems of fs2 era ships since they have no radar dishes. Benefit of internal systems instead of external? Internal sensory and comm systems are harder to find and take out than just blasting off the radar dishes.

To paraphrase a well known saying:

""They did it on Star Trek!" is never an acceptable excuse for anything. Ever. Not even Breathing."

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Once they lost 2 cruisers and an SD they might have simply combed the Nebula*


*- Minor language warning, minors beware.

 

[karajorma]

They could be using SU(subspace)DAR for all we know.  They do seem to have FTL sensors.  Could just be called radar because just a standard term.

That's basically my opinion. I very much doubt that they are actually using standard Radar as we know it but by the time new technology came along the term would have been so ingrained that everyone continued to call it radar. It's the same as how tank units are still sometimes called cavalry (And even air units sometimes!).

One thing we definitely know is that ships have something other than radio wave radar. Whether this is in addition to radio wave radar or instead of it is another matter.

Ships of the GTA Charybdis class have been packed with the latest tachyon-enabled AWACS equipment from GTVI labs.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, there are real AWACS, you know.

[BengalTiger]

Ships of the GTA Charybdis class have been packed with the latest tachyon-enabled AWACS equipment from GTVI labs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

[karajorma]

Well, there are real AWACS, you know.

Huh?

[Mars]

Airborn Early Warning and Control

[Colonol Dekker]

System too. . . .the S isn't for pluralism.