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The Hermes Enters The Fray!
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You've seen silhouettes of it for awhile, here's the real thing, finally! Capable of launching up to four strikecraft or fielding up to four repair drones, the Hermes is a capable light fleet-tender. Despite its lack of heavier guns, it still totes a single MAC and four fusion torpedo launchers, when pack a wallup against armor.
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Why Fusion Torpedoes??? Any form of nuclear weapon was considered a Strategic weapon and was only carried in VERY limited numbers aboard Important vessels.......
Even the planetcracker they made in the novels was a massive expenditure of nuclear material from their reserves, and they only built one.....
Then why did Longswords carry Shiva nukes?
The Kindjal bomber will be the sole unit thus far that actually uses "nearly nuclear" weapons, and those are more focused-blast, anti-shield/anti-capital ship nukes rather than "blow everything in a huge area up" nukes.
Fusion torpedoes aren't nuclear, at least according to what the guys have said.
Fusion rockets are not nueclear ordinance.
>Why Fusion Torpedoes??? Any form of nuclear weapon was
>considered a Strategic weapon and was only carried in
>VERY limited numbers aboard Important vessels.......
The Fury Nuclear Hand Grenade and the HAVOK Tactical Nuclear Warhead would like to have a word with you...
>Even the planetcracker they made in the novels was a
>massive expenditure of nuclear material from their
>reserves, and they only built one.....
Gosh, an entire planet cracker? The one with a TNT equivalent of several EKATONS? If they only produced one of those, it's a wonder that smaller ordinance ever got off the assembly line.
/sarcasm.
The planet cracker was a last ditch weapon for use against the covenant "Homeworld" (They didn't know there wasn't one, it was built before halo 1) And consisted of nine fusion warheads encased in lithium triteride armor. When detonated, it compresses its fissionable material to neutron-star density, boosting the thermonuclear yield a hundredfold. Called A NOVA bomb, It even had a recorded message for the covenant,
"I am Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb, temporarily in command of the UNSC military base Reach. To the Covenant uglies that might be listening, you have a few seconds to pray to your damned heathen gods. You all have a nice day in hell..."
Edit: Link to the article: Halopedian.com
He knows what it is, he's simply pointing out how absurd it is to compare the fact they made one NOVA which was never a conventional weapon to them making smaller nuclear weapons.
>The planet cracker was a last ditch weapon for use against
>the covenant "Homeworld" (They didn't know there wasn't one,
>it was built before halo 1) And consisted of nine fusion
>warheads encased in lithium triteride armor. When detonated,
>it compresses its fissionable material to neutron-star
>density, boosting the thermonuclear yield a hundredfold.
>Called A NOVA bomb, It even had a recorded message for
>the covenant,
Nice saving throw against admitting you were wrong.
Think about it. If I was able to cite two nuclear weapons, with the names and the nuclear yield, do you think that I wouldn't know exactly what the NOVA Bomb was, what it was to be used for, or that Whitcomb had stored one last taunt in the device to be played before it was activated?
That whole post is irrelevant to the fact that nuclear weapons were NOT rare in the UNSC's arsenal. Due to the toll the war was taking on the UNSC's arsenal, weapons-grade fissile materials were in short supply around 2531, necessitating a raid on a URF base. There is no evidence that this shortage was long-lived, and every indication (as well as common sense) that it wasn't.
And, as pointed out before, Fusion Missiles need not have a nuclear warhead. They could just as easily have a nuclear powerplant, which would give higher speeds than chemical propulsion.
do you know that nuclear weapons are fission type ? not fusion
except for the H bomb
It said fusion in the book and the site, but remember that most nuclear fusion weapons are of the Thermonuclear type, meaning they have a Fission type warhead to kick-start it....
Not sure why it says Fissionable materials.....
But I thought that the H Bomb works with a form of Fusion that causes an Implosion? making its detonation 1000 times more powerful than a A Bomb. and i thought Fusion is technically a Atomic reaction.
I really dont know that much :D
All nuclear weapons at current start with a fission detonation as we have no other way in our current technological state of speeding up hydrogen molecules to the point where they overcome the strong nuclear force and are capable of fusing together which we could fit in any kind of bomb sized packet.
Railgunner is correct fission warheads are used to kick start a detonation, a typical "H bomb" as polokpf referenced is effectively a three stage device, the fissionably material is compressed using conventional explosives to force it into a supercritical state, causing a fission reaction to take place (releasing approximately 0.1% of the energy stored in the material), this explosion then hypercompress a surrounding foam (the actual details of said foam I do not know) this foam then absorbs some of the kinetic energy but importantly very few of the xrays produced, this foam is then turned into a high energy plasma. This explosion and plasma is then used to compress and accelerate a fusion material (typically lithium deuteride) to the point at which the nucleus's of the atoms fuse togher to form hydrogen (releasing approximately 1% of the energy they contain). For all those who think nuclear weapons are hard to build, considering at the height of the cold war there were roughly 10000 warheads in service and that uranium is an incredibly common element one earth (of which 0.8% is usable as nuclear fuel) you are living in a dream world, nuclear weapons are surprisingly easy to make and worryingly prolific in the world of today, let alone a couple of hundred years in the future
And all the random gold mines of uranium and other natural resources to be found on uncharted worlds like in Mass Effect. :P
If the hermes can only fire a salvo of four at one time, followed by a short reload time for the torpedo tubes, won't that make the four lone torpedoes easy meat for point defense guns?
Well with fire support and bombers, I'd think the point defense turrets would have more to worry about that four fusion rockets.
It's more a harrassment and stand-off weapon too. If you just have one hermes firing at a whole flotila of ships then the torpedos won't do much, but if it's harrassing resource operations or smaller groups/part of it's own large group it works quite well.
that would be why it can carry its own support of a few longsword fighters
If the Hermes can carry longswords, then it much be a lot larger than a standard frigate, right? How much larger are we talking?
It's about 1.5 larger, the size our destroyers are.
The way it works is that the Hermes has low armor compared to ther ships and it is hollow on the inside to make room for multiple fighters.