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There a way to deal with that, but it's probably more complicated than you want.GTOM said:if the crate isn't much heavier than cargo then recoil would blow away the crate and give only small delta-V to supply
There a way to deal with that, but it's probably more complicated than you want.GTOM said:if the crate isn't much heavier than cargo then recoil would blow away the crate and give only small delta-V to supply
Noisy Rhysling said:There a way to deal with that, but it's probably more complicated than you want.
Not really, the Marslings can have antimissile weapons, so if you wanted to hit something with a ballistic/spaceborn missile, it would have to have high maneuverability, flares, high intelligence, basically it would have to be a fighter.GTOM said:If everything launched from Deimos had good sensors, thrusters, electronics etc, they could precision strike surface targets without fighters.
SlowThinker said:Not really, the Marslings can have antimissile weapons, so if you wanted to hit something with a ballistic/spaceborn missile, it would have to have high maneuverability, flares, high intelligence, basically it would have to be a fighter.
The U.S. and Russia still use fighters and bombers in Syria even though they have full control over space and intelligent missiles.
GTOM said:Can it be a realistic concern that some 100km/s nukes could finish the job, and shatter the moon?
Drakkith said:Yes, a number of nuclear weapons could shatter a small moon such as Phobos. Underground tests here on Earth have indicated that a 'cracked zone', the region wherein the rock is cracked, exists with a radius of 80-120 meters per kiloton of weapon yield. Outside of that, a zone of irreversible strain exists 800-1100 m/kt in radius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_nuclear_weapons_testing
stefan r said:that is per kt⅓