starship-design: FTL travel

[Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca>]

>Detecting the charge on the projectile from fields generated at light speed 
>to charge the armor with the charged deflecting field requires microseconds 
>as does the change of exhaust (on already) direction to avoid neutral 
>particle collisions. At c and above all is normal and the radar works just 
>fine. 

Radar or any other detection still requires the returning pulse back
from the object to return before the object arives. At C and above radar
is usless as the object has hit before you get the echo back.

Light is 3E8 meters per second or 300 meters per microsecond.
With 1 us for echo return,1 us for radar detection and 1 us for
deflection that
means a travel speed something about 1/3C.


S>>>>>>>>>>>#    300 meters  radar
   S<<<<<<<<#    200 meters  pulse return
       S?   #    100 meters  pulse detect
          S!#      0 meters  deflect


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