Re: Tugs...

At 7:30 PM -0400 10/3/02, Damond Walker wrote:
>
>     So..if a ship designer wanted to install "hardpoints" in order to
carry
>the itty-bitty ships how would one work that.	The craft being carried
are
>mass 30 or 40 and the vessel carrying them would be in the mass 120-150
>range.

I just counted the "ship capacity" as a bay. this made it a bit 
large, but the system works and it counts for the additional cost of 
the ability to wrap the ship systems (drive fields) around the 
ship/cargo. This makes something of a Float on Float off ship in 
terms of its tactical ability to move small yard/system craft about 
as a mother ship.

The USN has several of these ships in the civilian support side for 
moving yard craft, large landing craft, and other small combatants to 
far flung deployments where the smaller stuff would have a hard time 
deploying to due to endurance or low open sea capability.

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