Comments by "Jim Mcneal" (@jimmcneal5292) on "The Truth About Space Combat" video.

  1. Tbf human squishyness is overestimated.
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  2.  @R_SENAL  not really, as ship needs to accelerate. Investing in anti-missile defence is probably cheaper and more effective
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  3. ​ @slicershanks1919 that's because the idea of a dogfights as aerobatic carousels actually comes not from ww2, but ww1. Back then energy did not matter due to low speeds and weapons were relatively weak(usually 1 or 2 7.7 machineguns)
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  4. ​ @aluisious real gun fights don't really end with everyone full of holes
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  5.  @Goro_Maj1ma  it definitely does, as you need to accelerate the ship, and the heavier it is, the more fuel you need
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  6. ​ @mirshia5248  it is speculative technology(which means, unlike for example FTL we can't even predict how it will work)
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  7. ​ @kdrapertrucker please provide examples. I would argue that modern combat between more or less equal powers would be both BVR and close one
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  8. ​ @andreabindolini7452 As far as I remember, ships accelerate at max at around 8-9Gs, which is not much and perfectly fits the "juice" part
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  9. Should be noted that warp is technology that is a bit far from being inplemented(my take is that it will be done in 600 years or so, I even did some calculations) and hyperspace, along with for example shields or time travelling are speculative technologies(we don't know how to implement them even theoretically)
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  10.  @EugeneParallax  I'm not actually sure
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  11. ​ @R_SENAL  the problem with such surface is that it will probably be extremely heavy
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  12. It should be noted that we barely know how those battles will look like, but few things are obvious: big ships probably would not be useful, as they can be easily oneshotted. Same goes for lasers, as it is too easy to defend from them both for a ship and for missiles(ablative armor). Ironically, space fleets maybe will resemble modern ones, with carriers used for delivering strike crafts(probably unmanned), cruisers/destroyers doing AA job with interceptor missiles and frigates/corvettes being used as missile carriers to defend planets bases. But to be fair, I doubt there will be a lot of cosmic battles before we invent FTL and shields(and I think FTL will be invented reasonably earlier, in less than 600 years), as there are a lot of planets in the galaxy and it would be cheaper to just colonize them
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