If you want to make a fun space fighter warfare, beacause space fighter is fun, machine gun is fun and macho pilots like to impress girls of interbreedable speecies. The easiest way is to follow the rules from the good old science fiction.
1 - Placing the battelground on a non orbital situation...
The most important reason about why a delta glider like space plane will be create is Man need toy.
After we can find some use for this toy.
A lot of satellite weight less than 200 kilo. This simply mean if you carry a satellite you will take only 3 passenger.
Yes reality is hard.
We will need a top gun enginer to make a exotic turbine helped hybrid scram engine (the turbine is only for low speed propultion).
And maybe asbestos enamels.
If it's possible of curse.
You must be right, I finded a way to make a hybrid delta glider helped with learjet engine, and with my short and uncomplete calculation the conclusion is :
The glider will need 4 learjet engine (1,13 tons each) and consume 2 or 4 tons of fuel to reach mach 0.9.
This mean the weight of a...
When I say V2 it's the Von Brown like rocket engine.
Can Delta glider or dgiv can really goes on space dock on iss and come back with a V-2 like engine and 16 tons of fuel.
DanSteph himself said the DgIV engine is too powerfull to be realistic but a less powerfull versions is possible.
You really think it's impossible with a v2 like engine.
This plane burn all the fuel in less than 2 hours.
2 hours of fuel is compatible with a v2 like engine.
I like Starship trooper, beacause aliens kick ass a big and powerfull confederation. And the point of view is different. In this movie we seen the looser point of view.
According to me the worst sci fi movie I known is : Stargate (the original movie) and Highlander 2.
It's not a question of...
Whitout hover a delta glider can be realistic.
The 18 m by 18 m delta wing can contain:
(1800 x 1800) / 2 = 1620000 cm2 of surface
1620000 x 10 = 16200000 cm3 of fuel
or 16200 litre of fuel or water
or 16.2 tons of water or fuel.
The big fact is how to make a 162 m2 perfectly baked triangle...
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