Re: Fighter Mounts (Was:More Fleet Book questions)

At 10:26 PM 6/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I guess I'm thinking that the mass cost for a fighter group includes
enough
>equipment to allow them to be easily maintained and scrambled. My
>contention is that a launch system that apes a wet navy carrier by
>requiring a dedicated launch bay on top of this is unecessarily
limiting,
>and in certain genres, unrealistic.

>Specifically, I'm thinking of LOGH in which the cockpits of the
fighters
>opened into a pressurized bay, but the fighters launched simply by
being
>ejected from the bottom of this bay. Come to think of it, I *think*
Space
>Above & Beyond had a similar system.
>

I think that it needs to be flexible also.  Depending on which version
of
Macross/Robotech you watch, either the fighters are launched from
dedicated
bays, a carrier deck, or in Clash of the Bionoids(sp?) from a clamp that
extends the fighter out above the ship then releases it.

>
>I suppose in the end, this diatribe amounts to 'you do it your way,
I'll do
>it mine' :) But I like to think there's some justification for my
way.....
>

I propose that if a ship has more mass dedicated to fighters than to
other
offensive weapons, it should be considered a carrier.

My 2 cents.

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