TASEblak wrote:
Visokek wrote:
That'd be the Solar-class destroyer.
It's eighty 1Mt nuclear missiles in a pod, attached to a crew module housing 12 people, a bunch of high-yield engines (3.2G acceleration, which'd theoretically make it capable of interstellar travel by constantly accelerating until it hits relativistic speeds, but it doesn't carry enough fuel to burn for longer than just long enough to end up stranded in the area of Pluto's orbit if it tried), and a sensor module that provides targeting for the missiles.
No armor, no secondary weapons, minimal crew. Could be gutted by an IFV-grade autocannon were it to get a shot. It survives by being speedy, extremely maneuverable, and hard to hit by dint of being tiny in comparison to behemoths like the Asimov or Baikonur. It's a tin can, in the tradition of destroyers throughout history.
Sounds more like a bomber than a destroyer. And like fighter food. I imagine you've probably accounted for that, though.
3.2G acceleration. In other words, it accelerates at 31 m/s^2. It can hit Mach 10 in two minutes flat. Give it ten minutes to pick up speed and it'll be moving at 18 kilometers per second while still accelerating~
In essence, the only hope a fighter has to fight this is to come at an intercepting bearing and try to hit it in the insanely short window of opportunity where it's in range before they split again. It'd get rapidly left in the dust if it tried to pursue the thing.
Anyway, its attack pattern amounts to "come in at incredible speed to avoid interception, let missiles loose when in range, hightail it out again because lingering within the firing envelope of the enemy means certain death".
Of course, they're still going to die in droves because fundamentally it's kind of a shit concept (it's the first proper ship of the CADF and as such was kind of an experiment to find out what'd work when the CADF first tried to get into the spaceship scene in the 2120s) and its attack pattern takes it through the firing envelope of basically everything except the enemy's point defense, but that's fully expected. They're only really expected to maybe hopefully kill something before they inevitably die, tbh.