VHB 2026 Errata

[Condottiere]

One twentieth of fourteen cubic metres seems correct.

Make up of the current crop of missile chassis is somewhat vague, so mostly speculative.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Don't you mean one twentieth of the magic volume not occupied by fire control, launch mechanism, workstation...

 

[Libris]

If we take the Striker’s example of 500kg per cubic meter then a space missile at 1/20 of a dTon comes in at around 360kg each which seems a bit more realistic.

A Sidewinder is around 85kg, an AMRAAM about 160kg, and an AGM-88 HARM (which looks like a super buff AMRAAM) is around 360kg.

However, these are long super pointy atmospheric missiles and it’s likely a space missile would forego the aerodynamics instead being optimised for use in vacuum. Doesn’t mean you can’t fire them in atmosphere and while, being unstreamlined, their top speed would be severely curtailed being grav powered they’d likely be quite agile - if you’ve got nothing to shoot them down it’s going to be a bad day.

 

[Condottiere]

Don't you mean one twentieth of the magic volume not occupied by fire control, launch mechanism, workstation...

The whole thing is rather speculative.

The only reason I came to the conclusion that the missiles is one twentieth, instead of one twelfth, was because I was rereading Sword Worlds, and figured the only reason you could increase the magazine, was because it was packed more efficiently, not that they found more hammerspace.

 

[Sigtrygg]

If we take the Striker’s example of 500kg per cubic meter then a space missile at 1/20 of a dTon comes in at around 360kg each which seems a bit more realistic.

A Sidewinder is around 85kg, an AMRAAM about 160kg, and an AGM-88 HARM (which looks like a super buff AMRAAM) is around 360kg.

However, these are long super pointy atmospheric missiles and it’s likely a space missile would forego the aerodynamics instead being optimised for use in vacuum. Doesn’t mean you can’t fire them in atmosphere and while, being unstreamlined, their top speed would be severely curtailed being grav powered they’d likely be quite agile - if you’ve got nothing to shoot them down it’s going to be a bad day.

The spacecraft missile is canonically 50kg, until Mongoose changes it.