Kurt wrote: > Most likely, yes. It would probably cause the ship to either roll or > severely stress the hull where the turret barbettes support the gun > mount. All in all, not a "good thing". Though it probably makes as > much sense as the 5" naval gun armed Orion battleship once proposed.
Hello Kurt, I'm estimating about 10% payload. So for three triple 16" turrets, it would have to be 60,000 to 100,000 tons, counting ammo and secondary weaponry. Compare the A-10 and the GAU-8 -- maybe a nine-gun battery on the centerline? Or a 16" seven-barrel gatling? But big guns are probably getting silly, while I was wondering if the helicarrier was silly or possibly not. The heli-battleship would be a large air vehicle which is designed to take direct fire and dish it out. That doesn't have to mean guns. It could be an aircraft with several hundred points of DR, a big laser, CIWS mounts, and a battery of monster missiles. By comparison, the heli-carrier might have CIWS and defensive AAMs, but the offensive punch is in the aircraft. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
