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I had some good ideas in the week, but I've forgotten
them, so you'll just have to put up with this instead.
Anyway, missile -> battle ship -> boom.
But a battleship with slidey bits but would help. By using
radar to pinpoint the most likely place the missile is
going
to hit and moving
the hull plate out of the way (and the
plate on the other side of the ship) the missile will go
straight through the ship, foiling the attack.
As a Plan B, very strong jets of water to diverts the
missile
elsewhere.
PS Finally found where some guy came up with the
"Hey, let's use weapon-salve to longitude problem" short
story.
based on real bloke's idea - Kenelm Digby.
Kenelm Digby
https://en.wikipedi...g/wiki/Kenelm_Digby
A loon, but a founding father of Royal Society, so a useful loon. [not_morrison_rm, May 20 2018]
H.M.S. M1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_M1
Not a success ... [8th of 7, May 20 2018]
Battleship Warspite (1913) at Rosyth Dockyard
http://collections....a-2291910/large.jpg
[not_morrison_rm, May 21 2018]
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How long will you have to react once you've figured out where the
missile is going to hit you? |
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If it's only a few seconds, your slidey bits will have to slide really,
really quickly. |
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Won't it explode when it hits the water in the hole in the middle of the ship? |
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Again deflection is going to be minimal so explosion next to the ship will have some shockwave effect. |
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If the battleship were shaped like a species of waterfowl, when a
missile appeared it could Duck, then Swan away … |
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From memory, large ships have lots of electricity and/or
steam. With electromagnets you can shift big plates of
steel about toot sweet, same for steam. |
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In my mind (such as it is) there is the a crew member sitting
the loo reading the paper, at which point the hull plate
vanishes into a slot, and the exocet plunges in through the
newly made-gap.... |
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Would it not (and please note that this is a rhetorical
question) be better to furnish the ship with vast flotation
devices, fore and after, connected by large extensible rods?
Then, in the event of a torpedo, the entire ship can just stand
up on two legs and let the torpedo go under it. |
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Pirates could be dealt with in a similar way - just jack the
ship up at the last moment, wait til they're underneath, and
then descend. |
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Alternatively, the ship could descend; it was tried, with mixed results. <link> |
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Um, ships aren't exactly hollow, and hull plating isn't exactly
a non-structural wall. |
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Moving hull plating that's below the waterline sounds both
impossible and a really bad idea if it were possible. |
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Now if this were about a mild-combat version of the game
'Battleship,' just scaled up a little with some water pistols in
the backyard, now that I could get behind. |
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I come here for respite from a halfbaked world.
Being a parent in America will do that to you. |
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// I come here for respite |
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Would you settle for Rosyth (Dockyard) to whit HMS
Warspite with a biggish hole in it's side? |
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"the shell..upper deck, passed through the captain's
accommodation and burst in the Captain of the Fleet's
day cabin..." |
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At the time they suspected a disgruntled gunner, who had
applied his famous billiards "banana shot" technique to
the art of gunnery, but no evidence could found. |
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A wormhole or higher dimensional generator on slidey turret bits would work. |
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This doesn't seem to take into account how missiles work.
Generally, they're not designed (anymore, at least) to
explode simply on impact. Rather, they explode while
airborne, because this causes more damage. (Sometimes,
"airborne" is even after passing through a wall.) So, the
missile will just fly straight in the door you've kindly opened
and explode right in the middle of your ship, doing much
more damage than if it exploded on the outside (especially
after your enemies learn what your ships do and program
their missiles to account for it). |
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//HMS Warspite with a biggish hole in it's side? // |
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pffft! That's barely a scratch for a ship of Warspite's
considerable calibre. |
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// passed through the captain's accommodation and burst
in the Captain of the Fleet's day cabin// |
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The sheer impertinence. Worse was the embarrassing lack
of sprotsmanship shown, they never once ventured out
for a proper rematch. |
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Yes, but after all they were only foreigners. You really can't expect much from a non-cricket-playing nation who think that edible bread can be made from rye flour, and have no detectable sense of humour. |
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Damn that lack of sprotsmanship...although
sproutsmanship
tends to repeat on me. |
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//So, the missile will just fly straight in the door you've
kindly opened and explode right in the middle of your
ship, |
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I see, so it'd need either some kind of linear accelerator
to ensure the missile has exited the ship before it
explodes...or just lots of custard. |
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Anyone know how much custard to damp down an Exocet
detonation? |
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