That might have chanced some with more recent onvels, but I doubt it was substantially altered barring use of something like reaction thrusters.) like 90 degree turns, as per Weber himself. They have to make turnovers to slow down, and they can decelerate at hundreds of gees but suck at turning (IIRC they take many MANY minutes to make significant degree turns. Thirdly: HV ships have fuck off long ranges and as a rule travel at fairly high clips (tens of thousands or thousands of km/s) but they also rely on very long, drawn out engagement times across interstellar distances precisely because of the nature of the technology (parituclarily their FTL tech and it's limits.) But that's largely to get porcupine-sprays of x-ray lasers close to the target, fired in large numbers (dozens IIRC) in all a wide arc from double (or at best, triple) digit MT warheads (not including efficiencies.) While it might not be devastating or gut them effortlessly, high TW level outputs could still potentially threaten them (especially if the sidewall isn't an issue.) Yes they chuck a fuckton of missiles at near-c speeds at the target. Secondly: People overrate HH-verse firepower. do they have/use lasers or massless beam weapons of any kind? If they use particle beams we're going to end up gettng sidetracked into silly "can they penterate sidewall" debates. This is enough that assuming even modest ability to intercept, decoy, and jam incoming missiles, they will be able to absorb the attacks of extremely powerful Honorverse fleets simply by having more ships than the enemy has missiles to kill them with.įirst off: Nature of the beam weapons.
Concentrated for a maximum-effort operation, they have battlefleets of roughly a hundred thousand ships apiece, or more.
So it does come down to long range point defense and ECM.ĮDIT: One possibility is that the LoGH powers could simply, and quite literally, drown the SD(P)-using powers in ships, like a scaled-up version of the Solarian League.
Given the scale and energy output of their preferred missile warheads, a LoGH ship probably could stand up to a few missile hits, but not many, probably not as many as an Honorverse ship of equal tonnage even before the difference in 'shielding' technology is factored in: gravitic wedges versus whatever LoGH has. I don't know enough about HV, really, but IIRC those huge missile swarms could be devastating.Yes. Similarly, we have no idea if their prolific ECM ("electric wave interception" technology) will blind HV sensors.
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