Navy Logistics

[Sigtrygg]

Can you cite references (book and page number) for these as it would help people to look "in the right place". Some people may not have all the referenced documents and others will not consider previous editions canon. As you also seem to doubt the numbers it might help people decide which way they wish to interpret them.

I don't want to own up to referencing this particular MegaTraveller book...

When you say fuel transfer do you mean that is the payload fuel capacity, since it seems odd that such wide variation in overall tonnage and cargo results in the same fuel transfer figure for all of them?

Some of them have to dip into their own jump fuel reserves to make the 300,000 capacity - the problem is the designs are broken, the design system is broken, and there are potential cut and paste errors. Still the intent is obvious.

If it is going to have much of that fuel missing as it needed to jump in then it will need to skim before refuelling anything and as the onboard fuel tenders can do that just as easily for the capital ship, it contraindicates travelling with the fleet to refuel them.

Onboard fuel tenders most certainluy can not do that for the capital ship, not in any reasonable time scale. A Tigress would need 200,000t of tenders to refuel in one pass.

That Jump 2/3 is to get it fast to a suitable intermediate system where it can spend time refuelling ready to refuel a fleet that arrives there

These things are streamlined and refuel their full fuel load - so they jump insystem, skim, and have enough fuel to refuel a Tigress, so one tanker per Tigress is enough to fully refuel the capitals and all the support ships, the tanker then skims again.

 

[rinku]

I don't want to own up to referencing this particular MegaTraveller book...

Do not blame you

 

[collins355]

The Fleet Tankers in Shattered Ships were 500,000dT, with the Rift Tanker being 700,000dT.

 

[Condottiere]

You can't help but think of cannibalization.