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Subject: Re: Imperial fleet Vs Federation fleet


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Date Posted: 19:55:32 09/30/02 Mon
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In reply to: TrekGOD 's message, "Re: Imperial fleet Vs Federation fleet" on 07:51:57 09/30/02 Mon
 >Now, let's imagine for a moment being in F18 traveling
>at Mach 2. Your mission: Kill Sad'am Hussan.. and
>only Sad'am Hussan while he is on his morning
>routine outside of his palace. What is the likly
>hood of actuall being able to hit him and only
>with your mounted M61 Vulcan without slowing down?
>Let's put this in context with Star Trek Strafing.
>Umm no.

Of course that would seem to make it rediculous. However, that is because your argument is fatally flawed. You wouldn't be surprised if I said that an aircraft cannot be shot down with an axe. Of course it can't, because the axe wasn't designed to do that. Also, the M61 was never designed to hit a two meter target at mach 2. However, just because the M61 cannot do the job, it doesn't mean the job cannot be done.

In the Gulf war, Patriot missiles were able to successfully intercept (about 60% hits) and destroy incoming Scud missiles. A Patriot travels at mach 3, and the incoming scud at mach 5. Therefore the combined closing speed was around mach 8 (four times faster than your example). Many of these kills were nose to nose, meaning that the Patriot hit the Scud on the nose. The nose of a Scud is no more than 2 meters in diameter. See the point? You can't point to one systems inability to do the job, as an indication that the job cannot be done at all. Federation ships have FTL computers and sensors. We know the navigational deflector can hit fist sized targets with a closing speed of at least 1516 times the speed of light. There is no reason why the same systems could not guide a torpedo to an impact on a 1.6 KILOMETER object, at speeds that might not exceed just over light speed.
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Re: Imperial fleet Vs Federation fleetTrekGOD21:56:23 09/30/02 Mon
Re: Imperial fleet Vs Federation fleetcaon hayes02:04:47 10/01/02 Tue

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