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[jesuslover]

how are explained cockpit windows ? are they made of glass ? me think one laser carefully aimed will melt everything and would pull pilots eye out.

Edited by jesuslover, 04 August 2013 - 01:23 PM.

[LauLiao]

Trasparent aluminum. Oh wait, I think that was Star Trek. In canon, many mechs DIDN'T have actual "viewports" and just relied on the holographic projection.

[Risko Vinsheen]

Well I don't know how they explain it in the Battletech universe but... by modern standards we could assume it's a form of transparent aluminum/alumina.


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LauLiao, on 04 August 2013 - 01:31 PM, said:

Trasparent aluminum. Oh wait, I think that was Star Trek. In canon, many mechs DIDN'T have actual "viewports" and just relied on the holographic projection.

It's real. See above.

Edited by Risko Vinsheen, 04 August 2013 - 01:32 PM.

[LauLiao]

Risko Vinsheen, on 04 August 2013 - 01:31 PM, said:

It's real. See above.

Huh. Well I'll be damned. I just remember the scene in Star Trek 4 when Scotty shows an engineer how to manufacture it.

[Davoke]

In the books, the transparent cockpits(like on the Shadow Hawk, Griffin, Atlas, other SLDF era mechs), are made of a transparent metal.

[jesuslover]

oh yeah, this one seems a good one - aluminum. remember from the chemistry course - some fake jewels also made of aluminum salts

[Escef]

Cockpit glass is not really glass, but a very complex composite of several different materials that make it transparent and just as durable as normal armor.