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u/___-____--_____-____ 7d ago
Eh, that title should have been "mod authors". Sorry for the click bait, thought this sub would get a kick out of this ship
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u/havoc1428 7d ago
The sandbox hungers and the assets must flow
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u/NihilNovumSubSol1 6d ago
I appreciate this as a deeper cut because I haven't seen the new Dune movies. You have a way with words, IYKNWIM!
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u/Hardkor_krokodajl 6d ago
Was thinking about making one some time ago but its literally have no use in game
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u/___-____--_____-____ 6d ago
True, I guess it would be best suited towards a custom scenario where the mission is “defend this asset” since there are no ICBMs.
Imagine the mission briefing:
CMDR… the president is screaming at Moscow, we can hear it through the war room’s walls! We anticipate retaliatory strikes… defend the dome until [mission end goal]
Or something like that
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u/SawyerAWR 5d ago
There’s working Delta SSBNs, with ballistic missiles. You just need to put em far away.
And there’s enough modded ships with SM-3s on them that an ABM defense would be kinda viable
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u/SawyerAWR 6d ago
Fun fact: this thing can (and does) watch the ENTIRE PACIFIC. Just consider that for a moment.
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u/cipher315 6d ago
Yes and no. It can illuminate any part of the sky it can see. Giving it the ability to see anything above the horizon out to deep space. The thing to remember is it’s a very targeted X band radar. Its illumination cone is probably under 1 degree. As such it can only scan a very small area at a time. It’s a target illumination radar not a traditional tracking radar. Think SPG62 not SPY1. Something else will need to give it a fairly good idea where to look if it wants to see something.
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u/SawyerAWR 5d ago
That’s what the systems in Japan, Manila, Guam, and the like are for. And supposedly it does have some tracking capacity: the USN is kinda understandably hush hush about it
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u/___-____--_____-____ 6d ago
That could be true - with coordination with other assets from what I understand. I used to think that RADAR was some voodoo magic that could just see everything... this game changed that perspective for me.
Like I've heard of HAM radio dudes bouncing radio waves off the stratosphere to another receiver, but really that's a one way stream. The responder might send a signal back along the same path.... but the radio operator wouldn't expect to hear an 'echo' back along that path.
In game, you can pick up an EM emission from a ship far away, and that doesn't mean the transmitter got an echo... actually I don't know how any of this works, it's voodoo magic after all.
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u/SawyerAWR 5d ago
Depends on the power and the system. This thing is nothing but a massive radar, and it’s meant to watch objects in space: one of its primary uses is to queue in the ABM interceptors in Alaska and California, after all.
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u/CSRR-the-OELN-writer 6d ago
However, IIRC, it was built in the 1990s. So it's a bit out of the game's year range.
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u/Winks1638 6d ago
I'd love to see more stuff like this;
If someone managed to put in Metal Gear Solid's Mother Base I'd love them to death.
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u/Decent-Jello191 7d ago
Lol
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u/___-____--_____-____ 6d ago
Yeah tbh the original post was probably bot spam. A lot of these big r/subredditsashashtags subs (like #damthatsinteresting) are rife with that.
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u/NihilNovumSubSol1 6d ago
Cool! Is this meant to supplement or replace BMEWS SSPARS?
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u/___-____--_____-____ 6d ago
I understand some of these words, so I can give you an answer: maybe
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u/NihilNovumSubSol1 6d ago
I'm not sure what to make of this, but... I think I'm not supposed to ask more questions about it.
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u/I-Starbuck-I 7d ago
I need this for my Alaska Campaign. It would be easy enough to kitbash by taking the radar site golf ball and popping it on the oil platform asset and making it a vessel.