On 2/9/2018 3:51 AM, Caleuche wrote:
>
> 1g acceleration actually feels quite sluggish at this scale, compared
> to missile performance. If I can find performance information for the
> Russian S-400 SAM/anti-ballsitic-missile system, I'll put that
> together too and see if the ship can be threatened from a much further
> distance.

Depending on how broad your view of TL6 is, you could see missiles with
between 20g and 100g accelerations, or more, with burn times of 10-30
seconds depending on the size and thrust of the missile.  The take away,
for me, is that if the Free Trader is within the atmosphere, and within
the range of a non-manpad SAM, it isn't going to outrun it.

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