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[Ceesa]

Ever wondered how your beloved Battletech ships compare to other science fiction ships? Here's a nice comparison chart which shows you just how puny they are.

And holy cow EVE, those things are monstrous.

http://fc06.devianta...hel-d6lfgdf.jpg

Edited by WNxFireDrake, 29 September 2013 - 07:44 PM.

[DEN_Ninja]

Not sure how one nuke managed to destroy the Independence Day Mothership.

That stuff is crazy.

Also, by sheer tonnage and possible weaponry Star Wars could wreck the rest of them in Ship vs Ship. The Eclipse has one eighth the power of a Death Star.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Tichorius Davion, on 30 September 2013 - 07:22 AM, said:

Not sure how one nuke managed to destroy the Independence Day Mothership.

By clogging it's main cannon causing a backfire

Yeah the Star Wars ships are crazy-huge (and I say this as more a Star Wars fan than a Trekie) but I read an article somewhere where someone charted out the speed/range/power of the ships, and the star destroyers were about 2/3 the speed of the Trek ships with less range on their guns so....

[Karyudo ds]

Well it is all written by different people with little science behind some of it so direct comparisons to that stuff never really goes anywhere beyond size. Fun little chart, though strange that Macross 7 ships are listed Robotech... not that finding them are easy in all that.

[poohead]

I spent far longer than is healthy looking at that pic.

[Tannhauser Gate]

Regarding nukes, a nuke would most certainly destroy that ship especially from the inside. You wouldnt even need a very large one. Weve destroyed entire islands and ghost fleets of battle ships in the 50s from nukes 1/100th the yield we have now. Tactical / suitcase / artillery sized nukes wouldnt destroy it but a modern combined yield of 1 MIRV ICBM would absolutely end that ship in a white hot blink.

Edited by LakeDaemon, 02 October 2013 - 12:57 PM.

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Tichorius Davion, on 30 September 2013 - 07:22 AM, said:

Not sure how one nuke managed to destroy the Independence Day Mothership.

That stuff is crazy.

Also, by sheer tonnage and possible weaponry Star Wars could wreck the rest of them in Ship vs Ship. The Eclipse has one eighth the power of a Death Star.

It wasn't a nuke. the missile simply destroyed the main weapon causing a chain reaction. I mean really your going to question this but not the shooting down a 2 meter hole while traveling at full speed in a X-Wing fighter to destroy the deathstar?

[Source Control]

That's awesome. Man, that puts a lot in perspective. I love how many different kinds of ships are on here. Thank's for posting this!

[Steven Dixon]

LakeDaemon, on 02 October 2013 - 12:50 PM, said:

Regarding nukes, a nuke would most certainly destroy that ship especially from the inside. You wouldnt even need a very large one. Weve destroyed entire islands and ghost fleets of battle ships in the 50s from nukes 1/100th the yield we have now. Tactical / suitcase / artillery sized nukes wouldnt destroy it but a modern combined yield of 1 MIRV ICBM would absolutely end that ship in a white hot blink.

Very true. As an just as an interesting fact about nukes in space, while a nuke inside a ship would be devastating, a nuke outside of a ship wouldn't actually be terribly effective (at least not compared to using a nuke in the atmosphere). Most of a nukes power comes from the compression wave which is nullified in space. They still send out tremendous amounts of heat and radiation but both of those are present in high degrees in space anyways and presumably a ship would be equipped to deal with it. It would still be bad but not a superweapon.

[Tannhauser Gate]

Rusty Knuckle, on 03 October 2013 - 11:13 AM, said:

It wasn't a nuke. the missile simply destroyed the main weapon causing a chain reaction. I mean really your going to question this but not the shooting down a 2 meter hole while traveling at full speed in a X-Wing fighter to destroy the deathstar?

Uh.. The Mother ship hovering out in space was indeed destroyed by a nuke from the inside. City ships were destroyed by hitting their main weapons with missiles (or Randy Quade in an F-18).

[Nathan Foxbane]

Rusty Knuckle, on 03 October 2013 - 11:13 AM, said:

It wasn't a nuke. the missile simply destroyed the main weapon causing a chain reaction. I mean really your going to question this but not the shooting down a 2 meter hole while traveling at full speed in a X-Wing fighter to destroy the deathstar?

Do not get me started. BT jumpships and warships are pretty reasonable in a variety of ways compared to many of the designs out there, let alone from a resource consumption point of view. How do you even go about gathering the resources for some of those? Strip mine large moons? And the maintenance requirements, imagine trying to replace or overhaul an engine on one of those monsters.

And the nuke or the missiles did not kill any of the ID4 mother ships, bad design and explodium did. The city killers are 24 km in diameter, and the primary ship is 800x550x470 km. I do not know of any nuclear weapons currently available with a triple digit blast radius.

Edited by Nathan Foxbane, 05 October 2013 - 04:28 PM.