Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 11:22:10 GMT -5
In his Reddit AMA, fallen mentioned submarines as a major influence in Star Trader's ship tech. As it happens, I just came back from a town with a large sub base and had access to some museum pieces that may give some artistic inspiration.
This is a 90s vintage SEAL Swimmer Delivery Vehicle. Its flooded, so the SEALs use an onboard air supply.
Japanese minisub. One was sunk in Pearl Harbor during the attack as it was providing Forward Observer support. These were some tiny people. Even mounted on brackets, the damn thing doesn't quite reach my neck. It was designed a bit like a Derringer or Over-Under shotgun, with single-shot dual torpedo tubes making up the entirety of the bow.
This is a 5" dual purpose gun. It had a crew of 4. Five including an ammo gofer. The guy sitting on the right handled elevation. The left guy handled traverse. Then there was the loader and the crew chief which fired. This gun was designed in the 1930s and the design is still in operation. All thats changed is an automated fire control system. In the movie Serenity, the crew stuck one of these on the ship when refitting it to Reaver 'specs'.
Status display panel on a cold war era submarine torpedo guidance computer.
Here is the rest of the instrumentation in that section.
This is a mockup cut away of a 688 Los Angeles class fast attack sub with 90s era refit. The sonar dome is obscured on the very front of the bow. The vertical launch tubes for Tomahawk cruise missiles and four horizontal torpedo tubes are just behind the sonar compartment.
Further aft you can see the command center on the top deck- including the fire control center shown above. Below that is the triple rack crew berthing. Aft of that is the captain's wardroom/mess. Lower deck has torpedo racks, heading back into the forward engineering spaces and what looks like the beginning of the battery compartment.
Further aft is the reactor, turbine, water and air condensers, and the transmission and shafts for the screws.
Current Mk48 Torpedo. The front end contains the active sonar and computer system, behind that is the warhead- which is over a ton of torpex. And of course the propulsion to the rear.
This is the ass end of a Polaris A-3 ICBM. Its trio of W58 200 kiloton Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles have been removed of course but is otherwise intact. I want to add the caption "WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY"
This impressive piece of work is called a SUBROC. Its essentially a rocket-propelled depth charge armed with a low yield nuclear warhead.
This is a single station Oerlikon 20mm AA gun. These are still used around the world, and have been used in the US since around WW2. My grandfather was on a turret crew that used four of these badboys.
"Dive and Drive" station for navigation. One crewman handled turning the ship, the other was the plansman, who set the depth and angle of the dive or surface orders.
And the Mk-117 Fire Control System
Lastly, meet the Turtle. It was built during the American Revolution. The idea was to take a bearing on a British ship moored in the harbor, sneak up on it using a simple snorkel and periscope, bore a small hole in the hull to affix a small bomb and paddle away in hopes of not blowing yourself up. It was a failure but it kept the British out of the harbors.
It kinda reminds me of NASA's experimental rescue balls.
This is a 90s vintage SEAL Swimmer Delivery Vehicle. Its flooded, so the SEALs use an onboard air supply.
Japanese minisub. One was sunk in Pearl Harbor during the attack as it was providing Forward Observer support. These were some tiny people. Even mounted on brackets, the damn thing doesn't quite reach my neck. It was designed a bit like a Derringer or Over-Under shotgun, with single-shot dual torpedo tubes making up the entirety of the bow.
This is a 5" dual purpose gun. It had a crew of 4. Five including an ammo gofer. The guy sitting on the right handled elevation. The left guy handled traverse. Then there was the loader and the crew chief which fired. This gun was designed in the 1930s and the design is still in operation. All thats changed is an automated fire control system. In the movie Serenity, the crew stuck one of these on the ship when refitting it to Reaver 'specs'.
Status display panel on a cold war era submarine torpedo guidance computer.
Here is the rest of the instrumentation in that section.
This is a mockup cut away of a 688 Los Angeles class fast attack sub with 90s era refit. The sonar dome is obscured on the very front of the bow. The vertical launch tubes for Tomahawk cruise missiles and four horizontal torpedo tubes are just behind the sonar compartment.
Further aft you can see the command center on the top deck- including the fire control center shown above. Below that is the triple rack crew berthing. Aft of that is the captain's wardroom/mess. Lower deck has torpedo racks, heading back into the forward engineering spaces and what looks like the beginning of the battery compartment.
Further aft is the reactor, turbine, water and air condensers, and the transmission and shafts for the screws.
Current Mk48 Torpedo. The front end contains the active sonar and computer system, behind that is the warhead- which is over a ton of torpex. And of course the propulsion to the rear.
This is the ass end of a Polaris A-3 ICBM. Its trio of W58 200 kiloton Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles have been removed of course but is otherwise intact. I want to add the caption "WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY"
This impressive piece of work is called a SUBROC. Its essentially a rocket-propelled depth charge armed with a low yield nuclear warhead.
This is a single station Oerlikon 20mm AA gun. These are still used around the world, and have been used in the US since around WW2. My grandfather was on a turret crew that used four of these badboys.
"Dive and Drive" station for navigation. One crewman handled turning the ship, the other was the plansman, who set the depth and angle of the dive or surface orders.
And the Mk-117 Fire Control System
Lastly, meet the Turtle. It was built during the American Revolution. The idea was to take a bearing on a British ship moored in the harbor, sneak up on it using a simple snorkel and periscope, bore a small hole in the hull to affix a small bomb and paddle away in hopes of not blowing yourself up. It was a failure but it kept the British out of the harbors.
It kinda reminds me of NASA's experimental rescue balls.
