----------| Am 24.05.2010 15:22 schrieb Brandon Cope: |---------- > --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Roger Burton West <[email protected]> wrote: > >> that's still 3-4x the displacement of the subs that'll be >> hunting them. > Good luck trying to find one or two subs in the Pacific ;) > I doubt that the size of the ocean really matters if the vessel cannot project its threats over quite large distances. If you know that the weapon range is (just for the sake of the argument) about 30 sm, than you just have to search a circle of that radius (perhaps plus some safety margin) - and than it does not matter if this is the Pacific or just Lake Erie.
A smaller pond with more traffic would make it more likely that you will find an attacker out of random while it is still approaching, but it does not guarantee it. But a larger pond will not mean more safety for the attacker as its target - and therefore its destination - is well known. According to this, a submarine aircraft carrier will increase the challenge for any defenders as its range of threat is larger, and therefore, the area to search is larger, too - but again, this is not dependend from the body of water it is located in. On the other side, the "sonographic footprint" is proportional to the hull size (I hope I got the translation right), meaning that a larger submarine can be located from a greater distance. This is especially true if we talk about Diesel engines that drive those ships (and yes, I know that the speed of a submerged vessel is most responsible for its sonographic footprint, and no, I cannot remember if a doubled hull size means that the distance for locating a submarine is doubled, too, or even four times as large as before, or if it is just 11.76% more - I do not even know, if GURPS Vehicles will talk about this). -- Thomas Thrien Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
