Foe Hammer
12-12-2004, 06:43
Has your nation experienced more than it's fair share of orbital bombardments or invasions? Have you failed in most of your defense systems? Well, we would be glad to help you out, but unfortunately, we're not selling the... ORBITAL SMACKDOWN!
The Orbital Smackdown 5000 GTSS (Ground-to-Space System) is the latest creation to emerge from the desks of Hammerian Weapons, Incorporated. The laser-based OS5K is more than enough to hold off a small spacefleet while reinforcements are en route.
Power for the OS5K laser array are provided by a single small fusion reactor in the body of the weapon. The main choice of ignition material is deuterium-tritium, chilled to a few degrees above absolute zero, coating a small 3mm plastic pellet. This D-T substance is contained in a very small (6mm in diameter and 10mm long) capsule made of either gold or lead. An ignition laser is sent into the ignition chamber, and focused onto the small capsule. The laser energy is converted into thermal x-rays, heating and ablating the substance, causing an implosion. The resulting heat is converted to energy and is used in the 8-laser Nd:YAG laser array. The eight laser beams are amplified and focused into a single laser beam that is emitted through the barrel, whch is one meter in diameter. The resulting laser is more than enough to down satellites and spacecraft, either melting the hull and causing explosive decompression, or melting/heating the fuel tanks, causing a massive explosion.
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The statistics of a single weapon are as follows:
Length: 31.5 meters
Width: 9 meters
Height: 7.5 meters
Laser Power: 150kJ
Cost per unit: $2.4 Billion (Not for sale, never was, never will be.) (Cost for each complex, including six cannons and the control center, is approximately $15 billion)
Ignition Materials for Fusion: Deuterium-Tritium (3mm pellet)
Time from Ignition to Firing (TIF): 5 billionths of a second
Reload time: Two seconds (Another capsule is automatically sent from the capsule bay to the ignition chamber)
Capacity: 200 Capsules
Cooling: Frictionless Liquid Helium
The Orbital Smackdown 5000 is a mostly rail-based cannon. Multiple complexes are currently being designed, with special rails for multiple cannons circling the control centers of the complexes. Two of these complexes will be built on Hammerian Earth territory. Four complexes will be built on each colonized planet in the Nordlund system. Rumors are floating around about an Orbital Smackdown being built on the Hammerian colony station, but these are not yet confirmed.
The Orbital Smackdown 5000 is just nearing the end of the research phase and will soon enter construction phase. Many can expect to see the two Earth complexes completed first, to ensure safety of the Hammerian earth territories. Estimates show that the Orbital Smackdown may be kicking ass on Earth within the next five to seven years.
The Orbital Smackdown 5000 GTSS (Ground-to-Space System) is the latest creation to emerge from the desks of Hammerian Weapons, Incorporated. The laser-based OS5K is more than enough to hold off a small spacefleet while reinforcements are en route.
Power for the OS5K laser array are provided by a single small fusion reactor in the body of the weapon. The main choice of ignition material is deuterium-tritium, chilled to a few degrees above absolute zero, coating a small 3mm plastic pellet. This D-T substance is contained in a very small (6mm in diameter and 10mm long) capsule made of either gold or lead. An ignition laser is sent into the ignition chamber, and focused onto the small capsule. The laser energy is converted into thermal x-rays, heating and ablating the substance, causing an implosion. The resulting heat is converted to energy and is used in the 8-laser Nd:YAG laser array. The eight laser beams are amplified and focused into a single laser beam that is emitted through the barrel, whch is one meter in diameter. The resulting laser is more than enough to down satellites and spacecraft, either melting the hull and causing explosive decompression, or melting/heating the fuel tanks, causing a massive explosion.
http://www.flashwirenetwork.net/firing.png
http://www.flashwirenetwork.net/firing2.png
http://www.flashwirenetwork.net/still.png
The statistics of a single weapon are as follows:
Length: 31.5 meters
Width: 9 meters
Height: 7.5 meters
Laser Power: 150kJ
Cost per unit: $2.4 Billion (Not for sale, never was, never will be.) (Cost for each complex, including six cannons and the control center, is approximately $15 billion)
Ignition Materials for Fusion: Deuterium-Tritium (3mm pellet)
Time from Ignition to Firing (TIF): 5 billionths of a second
Reload time: Two seconds (Another capsule is automatically sent from the capsule bay to the ignition chamber)
Capacity: 200 Capsules
Cooling: Frictionless Liquid Helium
The Orbital Smackdown 5000 is a mostly rail-based cannon. Multiple complexes are currently being designed, with special rails for multiple cannons circling the control centers of the complexes. Two of these complexes will be built on Hammerian Earth territory. Four complexes will be built on each colonized planet in the Nordlund system. Rumors are floating around about an Orbital Smackdown being built on the Hammerian colony station, but these are not yet confirmed.
The Orbital Smackdown 5000 is just nearing the end of the research phase and will soon enter construction phase. Many can expect to see the two Earth complexes completed first, to ensure safety of the Hammerian earth territories. Estimates show that the Orbital Smackdown may be kicking ass on Earth within the next five to seven years.