home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   rec.arts.sf.science      Real and speculative aspects of SF scien      45,986 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 45,196 of 45,986   
   eripe to Wolffan   
   Re: Electronic warfare in space   
   11 Aug 17 06:18:44   
   
   ab5dbba7   
   From: eripe.dk@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 10:41:20 PM UTC+7, Wolffan wrote:   
   > On 2017 Jul 08, Mr Anderson wrote   
   > (in article):   
   >    
   > > While designing my universe ship to ship combat, I had a thought, how well   
   > > could the jamming and other EW systems work in space? I imagine there would   
   > > be a significant boost of power needed to match the long distances, but   
   could   
   > > you make science fictional "they are jamming our signals, we can't alert   
   the   
   > > rest of the Fleet!" possible? Or could they make the enemy targeting   
   systems   
   > > so innacurate that the battles would have to be fought on closer distances   
   > > than the weapons would permit?   
   >    
   > Jamming would last right up until a nice little ARM homed on the jammer and    
   > dumped a bucket of sunshine.   
   >    
   > And while omnidirectional signals might get jammed, highly directional ones,    
   > such as a modulated maser, are highly resistant outside interference. Point    
   > the maser at a known, distant, relay point and let the relay do the ‘alert    
   > the fleet’ broadcast.   
      
   If the enemy can detect where the maser is going, could they shine at the same   
   spot to blind out the real signal?    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca