I like. I can see this system being the basis for the small turret missiles that civvies carry.

On May 2, 2014, at 7:10 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
>> On 5/2/2014 1:05 AM, Tim wrote:
>
>>
>> The weapons range from something the length of a Hellfire missile to a
>> missile with a diameter of about five meters with multiple warheads so
>> there's a wide range of mayhem available to smite with.
>>
>>
>
> Hellfire is 17.3cm dia by 163cm long.
> Hmmm...
> Ya know, if you were to mount an FGMP's "working parts" in a tube, and
> run it at "low power" mode, it could fake being an HEPLAR. Then, when
> it reaches target, it'd drain some capacitors to put much more power
> to the coils that make the magnetic field that controls the plasma,
> and thus initiate fusion.
>
> Issues with power consumption during the plasma burn, but you could
> probably come up with a pulsed mode, where it'd run in plasma for a
> while, until one set of caps were low, then do a tiny fusion pulse
> that releases a bunch of energy that the thing captures and recharges
> the caps.
>
> Or go simpler, and have it run in pulse mode the whole time, kinda of
> "Orion-ish" , making fusion packets that decay and erupt inside a
> thrust chamber.
> ...until it reaches target, at which time it uses all remaining fuel
> and power to make one big boom.
>
> I could see a 20cm dia x 100cm "package" that has a screw-on 20x40cm
> fuel tank, and then a 20x10 'sensor package" on the front. The sensor
> package would vent the LH2 in the fuel tank out side-mounted jets to
> steer, in between thrust pulses.
>
> Bigger "medium sized" missiles (like a 1 could be groups of the
> 'standard' 20cm dia x 150cm screwed into a larger assembly, until it
> becomes cost effective to make a larger module design (ICBM size)
>
> I could see the "medium size" one being something like:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur
> Picture five of the 20cm dia modules in the back, (square plus center)
> and it uses the pulse rate on each one to steer.
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