Bombing runs

AluminumAlloy

AluminumAlloy
Would it be possible and/or effective, to take advantage of planetary gravity and deploy mines as dropping explosives on ground enemies/enemy structures? I'm not sure if anyone has ever really tried this before, but it would be interesting if a few experiments were done.

Thing is, in space, objects continue moving in their direction and i'm assuming the mines have little automated jets to prevent this and stay in one spot. If this is the case, deploying mines above planetary surfaces as dropping bombs in advantage of gravity would be useless unless the gravity of the particular planet is strong enough to dominate the threshold of mine jets power.

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DaveB

DaveB
If FD are going to introduce bombardment ordnance, have 'em do it right. A module that fits anywhere a cargo rack does - a bomb bay. You open your hatch and a third fire group becomes active - one that you don't need your hardpoints deployed to use. Start small, with one trigger press pickling a single bomb, straight laydown delivery. Later enhancements could maybe let us set how many bombs to ripple, add HUD assistance for lofting bombs. Once we get access to worlds with an atmosphere open up the possibility of high-drag bombs allowing low-level high-speed passes using laydown so we don't frag our ships with our own bombs..
 

shadragon

shadragon
AluminumAlloy said:
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AluminumAlloy

AluminumAlloy
terrycloth said:
Maybe jettisoned explosives should explode with the force of a ton of explosives exploding.
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Perhaps not that powerful unless there is more than one explosive canister jettisoned. And also having jettisoned explosives canisters blowing up upon other explosions, being shot at, or hitting other surfaces hard enough.
 
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Han Brannigan

Han Brannigan
AluminumAlloy said:
Would it be possible and/or effective, to take advantage of planetary gravity and deploy mines as dropping explosives on ground enemies/enemy structures? I'm not sure if anyone has ever really tried this before, but it would be interesting if a few experiments were done.

Thing is, in space, objects continue moving in their direction and i'm assuming the mines have little automated jets to prevent this and stay in one spot. If this is the case, deploying mines above planetary surfaces as dropping bombs in advantage of gravity would be useless unless the gravity of the particular planet is strong enough to dominate the threshold of mine jets power.

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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=246078

I don't know if it has changed lately - but I do not think so.
 

TheDayman

TheDayman
AluminumAlloy said:
Would it be possible and/or effective, to take advantage of planetary gravity and deploy mines as dropping explosives on ground enemies/enemy structures? I'm not sure if anyone has ever really tried this before, but it would be interesting if a few experiments were done.

Thing is, in space, objects continue moving in their direction and i'm assuming the mines have little automated jets to prevent this and stay in one spot. If this is the case, deploying mines above planetary surfaces as dropping bombs in advantage of gravity would be useless unless the gravity of the particular planet is strong enough to dominate the threshold of mine jets power.

Share your thoughts.
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I think they would fall to the ground. That's a damn good idea. Might be very difficult to pull off accurately, and I'm not sure you'd get the bang you were hoping for but still it'd be worth a shot.
 

LoneWolf2183

LoneWolf2183
I remember jumping in a salvage USS in a planet's gravity. And I let my ship fall with the remains. It took about 10, to 30 min ( I can't fully remember ).

So Simply dropping mines, or using cannons might not work.

Maybe a Rail would work better. But they're not gonna add large, or huge rails :/
 
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