Re: Drifting to DSII (was Re: New Fighter Types (drifting OT....))

 ---- brad wrote: 
> 7.2e15 Joules of energy is a bit steep for a battlefield weapon, thats
> more a city destroyer.  Maybe the original poster got the units wrong?

that is one possibility. more likely, i got the calculations wrong.
somebody check them! density of Ti = 5.01 g/cm3, LEO = 5000 km above
earth surface (contentious, but i found a NASA paper that said so ...),
you know the rest.

Tom