Oh. There is the difference?
Also to maximise absorbtion of the beam by target and for non-meat applications.
TIR is anti-laser shielding, at least for space ships. For power armor... Well, TIR again, plus probably some other stuff.
The recoil. It is as great as the force projected. Right?
Which seems to work by giving Newton the bird and feeding the recoil energy back into the projectile.
The Makos main gun was not a MAC. How can it be a MAC if it has a yellow/red muzzle flash associated with a propellant?
To be fair, the MBT I was envisioning would be something like 200-400 tonnes rather than the Abram's 60.
True enough, though the term Infinite Repeater only refers to the armaments of the secondary battery with armor penetrating characteristics. Sagitta missiles would probably be decent at anti-vehicle stuff and anti-infantry, but it's not anti-armor so that disqualifies it. It would probably be relegated to the tertiary battery or something.
It's worse than that. Infantry weapons are basically glorified sand blasters. It's not toothpicks, it's grains at least and splinters at most.
By the way, just for reference: this is rank 3 of 12 under the ME1 system, or Rank 2 of 4 under ME2. On a more RL comparison, it's also 157 pounds, which isn't all that much when thinking in terms of punches. At this level it's not so much "punch" things with your brain as "give them a quick jab" with your brain.Even the highest levels only barely reach what the average martial artist can do with a quick reverse punch, let alone the kinds of crazy things they get up to when they're breaking concrete blocks with their fists, or what a professional boxer can throw out.
Yet more proof that ME's numbers are just weird.
Lasers are important for now because they completely ignore barriers; low-speed bombardment shells are much less effective against strong shields.
Yes, should give us a significant boost to our disintegration miners, now that I think about it. The only problem with disintegration mining is that we need to find a way to extract the eezo first (which is why I'm kind of hoping that spin-mining can actually work); if we're vaporizing material and sending it through an ion source in order to separate it into different elements while there's eezo still in the mix, then we'll have some rather impressive explosions on our hands.
TIR is interesting, but in atmosphere/on the ground it spews out a lot of lethal radiation because of the atmosphere impacting the FTL-quality barriers, which have to be up all the time to block incoming laser strikes. This is apparently not an issue for the combatants, because of ME universe BS-level radiation shielding tech, but it will irradiate the soil and any unshielded civilians, which I regard as not quite neighborly enough to do when not fighting Reapers or a similar extinction-level threat. We're going to need something else to block laser strikes on the ground; currently the best we can do is use ablative armor.
Huh; I thought we were talking around 5-10,000 km, unless I'm reading your post wrong. At any rate, I thought the idea was that the shield emitters were more fragile than the regular ablative armor, so a valid strategy would be to sit say 2-3x times further away than our "effective" range, spray our diffraction-widened laser over the enemy's hull, knocking out the shield emitters, then blast away with our MACs while our Warp barriers gleefully tank any shells our Repulsors don't dodge.
Relevant infographic:
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Wasn't it mentioned before that we could use eezo's ability to change the relative speed of light to shift the wavelength of lasers and make them shoot hard radiation? If I'm reading the graph correctly we could use microwaves and fry targets with very small amount of scattering and almost no absorption.Lasers are important for now because they completely ignore barriers; low-speed bombardment shells are much less effective against strong shields.
Yes, should give us a significant boost to our disintegration miners, now that I think about it. The only problem with disintegration mining is that we need to find a way to extract the eezo first (which is why I'm kind of hoping that spin-mining can actually work); if we're vaporizing material and sending it through an ion source in order to separate it into different elements while there's eezo still in the mix, then we'll have some rather impressive explosions on our hands.
TIR is interesting, but in atmosphere/on the ground it spews out a lot of lethal radiation because of the atmosphere impacting the FTL-quality barriers, which have to be up all the time to block incoming laser strikes. This is apparently not an issue for the combatants, because of ME universe BS-level radiation shielding tech, but it will irradiate the soil and any unshielded civilians, which I regard as not quite neighborly enough to do when not fighting Reapers or a similar extinction-level threat. We're going to need something else to block laser strikes on the ground; currently the best we can do is use ablative armor.
Huh; I thought we were talking around 5-10,000 km, unless I'm reading your post wrong. At any rate, I thought the idea was that the shield emitters were more fragile than the regular ablative armor, so a valid strategy would be to sit say 2-3x times further away than our "effective" range, spray our diffraction-widened laser over the enemy's hull, knocking out the shield emitters, then blast away with our MACs while our Warp barriers gleefully tank any shells our Repulsors don't dodge.
Relevant infographic:
If I'm reading this right, the key here is that around 10,000 nm there's a 90% transmittance window, and there's a few good 80% transmittance windows around 2,000 nm, but if you start shooting out lasers in the UV/Vis spectrum you're going to lose half or more of your laser to atmospheric scattering, which is a problem because you're liable to blind everyone in a wide radius around your target and rip a giant hole in the target planet's ozone layer.
Microwaves are bad because of diffraction; the beam will spread too much to be useful as a weapon outside of a few dozen kilometers. But yes, variable wavelength lasers are on the tech tree, behind both miniaturized energy weapons and UV lasers, and as far as I can tell they're only good for rapidly adapting mining lasers, and so we can easily move from anti-ship UV/X-ray lasers to anti-ground IR lasers without having to install two separate weapon systems.
