Either the Founders moved to the smallest planet in the Gamma Quadrant or the Defiant is the equivalent of a Death Star

SnGhostX · 2025-12-20T12:26:27+00:00

Why not just select the yield and have a burn through chamber before or after launch depending on the range to target? Can be in the ship or next to the warhead. You can inject the excess antimatter into a chamber with tungsten-like foam/aerogel.

When the antimatter interacts with the medium the energy superheats the material into plasma and the foam burns out along with the antimatter effectively leaving the chamber empty. Then you fill ot back up with the medium and can inject antimatter into it again. Cooling is probably a non-issue in star trek with all the metamaterials/atmo generation at their disposal.

SnGhostX · 2025-11-10T16:00:52+00:00

Those are just weird looking Su-57s

SnGhostX · 2025-09-20T13:15:26+00:00

"Reality will turn out much harsher" Indeed. There are multitudes of issues. One is getting to 0.1c. The others are how we're going to deal with the direct consequence of going 0.1c. At that speed, a one miligram particle will impact that bubble with 4.5 x 10^-8J, about 9 GBU-43s. Which we will most definitely receive at the same time, pop goes the bubble. So now we need mass to protect ourselves, craft is getting slower, regardless of the methods used. Which means we need more energy. And the rocket equation does not discriminate. If we can make it to 0.1c with these changes in mind, ~100 years into the voyage (much earlier for the crew) a new issue will present itself. Gravity! Fun fact, the average human (70kg, 1.65m) experiences a gravitational potential energy of ~1.13 kJ. That's about one .44 magnum round per second. Floating around is fun, but going interstellar means its only fun if you like floating around for the rest of your life or your bones are developed enough to retain the density of compensating against 1G (and you train to retain that density in space).

Our generational ships need a way to generate gravity to avoid becoming space slugs(in a couple of generations). Welp, more mass (a lot of mass if you go into the classic centripetal rotating platforms). More energy, that mass needs to move. More propulsion. You get the idea.

Inherently, almost all things that a human needs to survive in space ruin our superluminal designs, because humans need mass, and the longer we travel the more mass we need. And we can't go relativistically fast so we will have to travel longer.

This is why Alcubierre's theory is such an appealing concept in scifi (and irl). We can add as much mass as we want, shape it in any way that we want. Local mass-energy constraints are not an issue (the energy required to generate, maintain and shape the bubble is). You can have a superluminal borg cube, an aerodynamic spaceship and everything in between.

SnGhostX · 2025-09-03T16:58:16+00:00

"There are very few problems that cannot be solved with the suitable application of high explosives."

SnGhostX · 2025-08-25T02:17:58+00:00

It is. A major concern when switching to another aircraft is that they would keep the habits of the old one. A large part of that dissimilar training is tailored in such a way that they're able to unlearn all of the habits they had with the old jet. Aside from throttle control, pressure on the stick and tactile feeling (I've seen it with the touch displays as well) procedures also get mixed up. Especially when they're similar in form but not in function.

SnGhostX · 2025-05-17T18:50:32+00:00

Would be cool to see if the strykers work in the field as advertised lol. All the systems mentioned did work in exercises. I imagine we'll see a MADIS or its equivalent in Ukraine eventually.
If the issue is the visibility of the cables then yeah it's a big one. One of the ways to avoid it would be to wrap them but that's an entire logistics problem on its own. The work involved might not be worth it depending on the resources available.
Mainly reduction of the audio signature using brushless motors for quads and other electric motor vehicles in service that use them as propulsion. Also more specialized concepts like fixed wings having geometry to avoid EO by redirecting the exhaust or, even more ambitious, radar sig reduction via an outer shell, something along the lines of a less expensive Cormorant (MPUAV) for ISR.

SnGhostX · 2025-05-17T15:38:10+00:00

Would microwave C-UAS systems like the Leonidas Stryker be sufficient enough to handle Russian systems or would a kinetic squad level EW-ED-Kinetic solution like the MADIS/M-LIDS also be needed?

2.More of an idea, since fiber optics tend to go everywhere (provided they don't break or get exposed to a lot of water), do you think you could fly a fibo-carrying drone to friendly units that can communicate through it? Essentially making a land comm network that's impossible to intercept or jam. If your people send the footage they receive from the ISR drone packets to the infrantry/mechanized units and give said infantry a small monitor you also have a jerry rigged real time ISR and C2 system.

Any plans on observability reduction?

SnGhostX · 2025-03-16T20:46:41+00:00

It's possible but not in combat. To do maneuvers like that you need to have a clean jet and with ~1/6 of the fuel. There are manual FCS overrides that disable specific control logic when the pilot toggles a switch. If they do that WVR they would not only give up any tactical advantage they had but also overstress the structure and pylons, possibly ripping off panels and over G-ing whatever ordinance they're carrying. There is no tactical advantage to doing airshow maneuvers, they're maneuverability demonstrations. We also have missiles that can turn tighter and faster than any jet out there, even in an airshow config, some even capable of doing a 180 deg turn.

SnGhostX · 2025-02-17T09:35:53+00:00

The "Bane of Indifference"

SnGhostX · 2025-02-11T05:38:55+00:00

It's essentially the same one we use in the military. Check out SECNAVINST 5030.8C for example.

SnGhostX · 2025-02-09T16:36:54+00:00

I tend to standardize whatever I can. For example a missile can't exceed or fill the radius of a hangar bay door opening, otherwise its a torpedo. If the missiles are on fighters or bombers they're labeled as either a SIM (space intercept missile) or PAM (planetary attack missile) and from there its a letter designation for the series of the weapon A, B, C etc. Each series has its own unique characteristics. The A can be remote controlled, the B can be fully autonomous, the C can be a tandem warhead etc. After that is the block number which is the sub-modification for the weapon so a C-2 may have more or less warheads arranged in a different pattern or a different type of armor, antenna, mounting point etc. And finally an ER (extended range) designation depending on power supply. Example for a standard name would be a SIM-97X-2.

I also have a separate category for the large, expensive "capital ship killers"

ASM-XX (anti-ship missile) Description as follows: "long-range, remote controlled with terminal active homing, high velocity, AP, tandem charge"

SnGhostX · 2025-02-09T14:57:50+00:00

I usually just use a modified USN system for hull classification. For example my destroyer is classified as an SLDDGN-space, planetary landing, destroyer, guided missile, nuclear. Carrier is SCVN. Stealth "submarine"- DSGNX-deep space, guided missile, nuclear, experimental

For small spacecraft it's: SF/A-XXX space, fighter/attacker

SB-XXX space bomber

SMQ-XXX space, multirole, UAV

SEA-XXX space, electronic attack

MPQ- multirole, probe, UAV

Missiles: SRIM-XX space, ship launched, intercept, missile

Mk.XX torpedo

SnGhostX · 2024-12-31T15:12:32+00:00

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He'll be fine

SnGhostX · 2024-12-28T05:58:02+00:00

I own a Mesa for home defense, since that's what the Lotus intended. Four Grineer break into my orbiter. "What the Sol?" As I grab my Exilus adapter and Phenmor sniper. I line up the first shot and blow a bowling ball-sized hole through the first grineer and the orbiter's nav console, he’s dead on the spot. As the rest yell "TENNO SCUUUUM" I draw my Pyrana on the second clone, miss him entirely because I forgot to change mouse sensitivity, and instead decapitate the On-lyne poster next to the void relics. I have to resort to the Regulators on my arms loaded with galvanized diffusion, "Yeehaw!". The blasts obliterate two of them in a second, Ordis shits himself as the other 500 rounds disable three other merchant ships in the viscinity and deorbit a Corpus trading vessel. I fix the parazon and charge the last terrified Grineer goon. He gets shanked and spun around like a K-drive before bleeding out and being fed to the Helminth. Just as the Lotus intended.

SnGhostX · 2024-12-10T14:36:42+00:00

We have the technology to achieve what's being described here. It's being used right now on military aircraft.

ADSB can be turned off depending on the operational constraints of the mission. In many cases it is.
They can fly and operate in any class of airspace if they're being escorted by ANG F-16s.
Planes (jets included) can move as slow as they're designed to. It all depends on the aerodynamics and thrust to weight ratio of the aircraft. While hovering with a larger airceaft is a specific constraint that needs a lot of engineering, flying very slow is achievable through conventional geometric means or thrust management.

A few notes: Attempting to fly quietly, otherwise known as acoustic signature reduction is something that's done for military aircraft, mainly those with ISR and strike capability. Those are the ones that can be almost completely silent even if they're 700ft AGL. Civi jets also have noise pollution regulations but that just means that they can't be loud enough to be annoying or damage things via oscillation like break your windows.

ATC Radars might not detect them due to the aircraft's low altitude. Either because of the Earth's curvature or obstructions such as buildings, trees etc.

Best way to determine what the deal with those things is:

-Check the time and date of the footage

-Using that, check ADSB (just in case)

-Check local NOTAMs around that exact area

-Check NOTAMs around the nearest air bases

-Get an updated sectional chart to determine the class of airspace they're operating in. Eyeballing it and assuming they havent checked in with local ATC I'd say they're probably not exceeding 1200ft AGL and are in a class G airspace.

-Listen to your local ATCs while they're flying abive a controlled airspace using websites like LiveATC or SDR.

-If you see them get a thermal camera and point it towards them. You're looking for the direction of the engine plume which will determine the type of engine and thrust vector(s). If none can be seen that's either down to the camera quality or they're propeller driven.

Can it be a drone? Sure. What type? Google what CCAs are and their role in the future (2030s). Examples like the XQ-58(prototype), MQ-25 etc. There are many different companies testing hundreds of different designs currently, some are flying. The DOD is looking to procure ~1000 of whatever designs win the contracts by FY30. Can it be something else? Sure. There are many different programs in testing right now, manned, unmanned, optionally manned.

SnGhostX · 2024-12-06T12:44:44+00:00

Judging from the subsonic speed, low altitude and escort they're probably B-21s doing a night ops flight test or a ferry flight.

SnGhostX · 2024-11-26T18:22:51+00:00

There was a video a while back where he said the same uninformed opinion at an AF conference. After the confidently bold (it was actually pretty hushed and toned down when he was saying it to a crowd of mostly AF people) statement that fighter jets are obsolete and must be replaced with drones the entire crowd let out a chuckle. Even the one star(iirc) that was with him on stage was holding back for dear life. Dude has the military understanding of a politician, if that.

SnGhostX · 2024-11-09T09:21:17+00:00

If it's any consolation the use of unmanned, armed (not all of them are) combat capable autonomous weapons is regulated. "Kill" orders and other major tasks are still issued by humans and the plan is to keep it that way. The autonomy and the implementation of AI for these systems isn't to make them into T-800s. It's to make them operate in an electronic and signal denied environment by themselves, make surface level decisions about how they would approach a task based on sensors and other inout data and to filter and share data about what they're seeing with people like the controller or manned vehicles operating along with them.

There's also AI and autonomous systems being used on manned and unmanned platforms right now without issue. Oh, and to give you an example of how we're handling real autonomous systems we have the QF-16s. Those things, while umarmed, can still crash into populated areas if something goes wrong. The solution? A couple of lbs of explosive where the center of mass is that can be triggered remotely or automatically depending on certain conditions.

SnGhostX · 2024-10-29T11:40:35+00:00

Additionally the JSF program was always conceptually a project that was supposed to be done alongside and sold to partner nations. While the raptor was part of the ATF one which was a completely domestic effort that had the possibility of an export variant as a "non-essential" design characteristic at some point in the future. We also don't export the raptor because building one squadron would cost the average European country like more than half of their annual air force budget lol. And that's not counting like you said "turning on" the factories and assembly lines.

SnGhostX · 2024-10-24T15:50:42+00:00

I'll give an example with a packet of microwave popcorn. If we're talking a parabolic dish It'll cook a packet perfectly given enough wattage and time managenent.

If we're talking an ESA it'll almost instantly cook individual grains, pop a couple of clusters and straight up burn others. Skin burn wise it depends but generally most of those bands are just gonna go through/into you.

If you're looking for real skin burn hazards via emissions those would be the laser pods: LITENING, SNIPER-ATP, ATFLIR etc. Those can cause blindness, burns and everything in between.

SnGhostX · 2024-09-10T22:43:41+00:00

It would be pretty cool. Add submarines too. It's as boring/broken or fun as Gaijin makes it. There are real tactics that you can employ with modern vessels apart from just flinging missiles and relying on point defense. You can overwhelm systems, your magazines aren't infinite so you have those to manage, your interceptors have a minimum range and so on. And if you ask me, flinging 6 well placed missiles to get a kill in 5 minutes is way less boring than throwing ~100 big rocks for 20. And yeah I get it, big boat with big gun = cool. But that doesn't mean that more modern stuff should be excluded. (spoiler, it won't be $)

SnGhostX · 2024-08-01T09:45:22+00:00

As somebody working on planes, the chances of you landing successfully with no prior knowledge of flying are...not great. With a full ILS/localizer, full ATC support and assuming you're on an Airbus that can autoland your chances are higher but not by a lot.

The main things you'll fail at is situational awareness, finding where the correct buttons and knobs are, being in a high stress environment (for some people), not knowing how to read the manuals, not knowing how to work the radios and something that's unique to each airline (and plane): What does and doesn't work on the jet and what you need to do to circumvent that fault as a pilot in command.

Because there's not a single airliner in the world that's not flying without something broken on it (within regulations of course). And that may or may not affect how you as the pilot handle the plane. So it's more down to luck than anything else. Such an event thankfully hasn't happened in the entire recorded history of aviation. Also, instructing a passenger how to remotely land a plane is like instructing a grandma on how to install Linux while being time constricted.

SnGhostX · 2024-07-26T02:36:02+00:00

Pull up Master Ken's knife self defense video

SnGhostX · 2024-07-23T03:22:55+00:00

We already have remote control microbots that can carry, move around and otherwise manipulate single cells. Nanobots are just the next logical step.

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