Re: Space carrier fighter philosphy

John Leary wrote:

> Phillip E. Pournelle wrote:
> > 
> >	    Currently, a fighter is one mass and takes up that kind of
space in the
> > hangar.  but to maintain it and arm it etc. itakes up 1.5 * its own
mass.
> 
>      Not wishing to detract foom the discussion too much!!!
> Sorry Phil, but the fighter does not have one mass per fighter.

Yes, it does - I assume Phil means FB when he says "currently". At least
all  hangar bays in the FB require 1.5 * the Mass of ships carried
inside, a fighter bay is Mass 9 (therefore capable of handling 6 Mass of
small units) and carries 6 fighters. This strongly indicates that an FB
fighter is, indeed, roughly 1 FB Mass.

The FB Mass unit is roughly half the size of an FTII Mass unit, so in
FTII fighters are only about 0.5 Mass.

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
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