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starship-design: FTL travel
>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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