Small Modular Reactors

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C-17 Airlifts A Micro Nuclear Reactor For The First Time​

C-17 Airlifts A Micro Nuclear Reactor For The First Time

Micro nuclear reactors are being seen as a way to get critical bases off the grid, but they could also have a major impact on civilian energy production.

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[nelljohn]

C-17 Airlifts A Micro Nuclear Reactor For The First Time​

C-17 Airlifts A Micro Nuclear Reactor For The First Time

Micro nuclear reactors are being seen as a way to get critical bases off the grid, but they could also have a major impact on civilian energy production.

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Portable nuclear reactors are huge for military base construction and settlement. I can imagine these being used in future wars. The potential for these are huge.

 

[BMD]

Portable nuclear reactors are huge for military base construction and settlement. I can imagine these being used in future wars. The potential for these are huge.

Probably needed to power railguns for ballistic/hypersonic missile interception too.

 

[lmaoxd]

railguns as we imagine them will never come IMO. Its far more likely that we get a mutli MW scale laser than a railgun and tbh a portable nuclear reactor of this size is perfect for this job. Railguns are insanely expensive and are very hard on the barrel. Unless ofc there are breakthroughs that i dont know about which is not impossible

Probably needed to power railguns for ballistic/hypersonic missile interception too.

 

[BMD]

railguns as we imagine them will never come IMO. Its far more likely that we get a mutli MW scale laser than a railgun and tbh a portable nuclear reactor of this size is perfect for this job. Railguns are insanely expensive and are very hard on the barrel. Unless ofc there are breakthroughs that i dont know about which is not impossible

BBG(X) is already down for a 32MJ railgun and Japan has a 5MJ one. Multi-MW lasers are a way off and don't really work that well against fast-moving missiles, more suited to drone defence right now.

 

[lmaoxd]

BBG(X) is already down for a 32MJ railgun and Japan has a 5MJ one. Multi-MW lasers are a way off and don't really work that well against fast-moving missiles, more suited to drone defence right now.

well the thing is multi MW laser are a lot faster to intercept compared to a raigun. railguns travel at hypersonic speeds and have to account for the delay while multi MW lasers are easily possible considering the extra power Ships have especially A/Cs.

Lasers also travel at 'c' or very close to it since RI of air is 1.0003 or smthing like that. The issue with MultiMW laser is the fact that theyre limited by horizon.


Railguns might have an advantage in the sense that they are kinetic so dont need dwell time unlike lasers. Theyre also longer range since theyre physical (cause theyre rods) so can get something 150kms away.

Both of these are going to be short to at most medium range defenses, i dont think missiles are going away any time soon until we get to a point that laser's one shot missiles in less than a second which is probably very far into the future

 

[BMD]

well the thing is multi MW laser are a lot faster to intercept compared to a raigun. railguns travel at hypersonic speeds and have to account for the delay while multi MW lasers are easily possible considering the extra power Ships have especially A/Cs.

Lasers also travel at 'c' or very close to it since RI of air is 1.0003 or smthing like that. The issue with MultiMW laser is the fact that theyre limited by horizon.

Power isn't the problem it's heat and materials from what I understand. Lasers are much faster to travel but much slower to damage. You don't want to be slowly burning a hole in the nose of an incoming missile. The idea with railguns is essentially to do what an ABM already does except cheaper and faster. They will likely employ burst rounds in front of the missile.

Railguns might have an advantage in the sense that they are kinetic so dont need dwell time unlike lasers. Theyre also longer range since theyre physical (cause theyre rods) so can get something 150kms away.

Both of these are going to be short to at most medium range defenses, i dont think missiles are going away any time soon until we get to a point that laser's one shot missiles in less than a second which is probably very far into the future

That's exactly the problem with lasers, dwell time that nobody has.* Railguns will likely be employed terminal phase against BMs/hypersonics. OTH shots would be very difficult to calculate and with no certainty even then because the target could change course several times before it gets there. In the terminal phase there is less time for it to do that due to shorter distances and commitment to hit the target.

It's the reason that particle beams are preferred for exo-atmpsheric engagement - not too much slower than lasers (20,000 - 200,000km/s) and with real and sudden kinetic impact effects. Whether this went ahead or was really cancelled, nobody knows.

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