12 years of conventional schooling, a broken arm building a treehouse, a first love, a camping trip where he saved his brother from drowning, premed, breaking up, flight training, four years on deployment, recovery from a shrapnel wound, med school, a new love, acceptance into astronaut training, two more years of earthside training, saying goodbye, two years on-orbit training, mustering to ship's doctor, three years of deployment, five major battles, and then terribly abruptly, stardust.
Honestly hard scifi battles are infinitely more terrifying than soft scifi battles. You never know when your death will come, but when it does, it'll be fast.
Something I wonder about PDCs in this kind of scenario is how it's a hose that's pouring out a crap ton of space debris. Won't it just end up as a cloud of projectiles littering lunar orbit? BTW, the moon's escape velocity is 2.38 km/s (7,800 ft/s). For comparison, the muzzle velocity of the GAU-8 30mm cannon is 1.04 km/s (3,400 ft/s), so most of those rounds are definitely staying in orbit.
Whether to litter the orbital space with debris and face the consequences later now, or to not intercept incoming projectile and die with pride no one will honor. Your choice.
the answer to this is rocket boosted munitions for around the moon (2.5 km/2 muzzle velocity) and laser brooms for sweeping orbits clear by ablating debris
Doesn't matter, you are thinking of the *immediate* survival of your ship. Rather litter space with debris in order to _not get killed by missiles now_, than to possibly (very very low chance, remember, space is big) be punctured by shrapnel months later.
It *is* a little shitty chinese fast attack craft, basically the space equivalent of a RHIB with a .50 cal on the top. If my memory serves me right (it probably isn't) I'm pretty sure the chinese craft is the smallest military spacecraft in service.
@@kingcam1654 I was making that analogy since (I thought at the time) it was the smallest (Militray) spacecraft in the setting, which I now know is wrong. But the reasoning behing the analogy is that RHIBs are traditionally some of the smallest armed combat vessels, so I was comparing it to that. But it was a shitty analogy lol, RHIBs don't have missiles kek You're right, it's not the smallest, I found a better image, which, assuming it's complete with all the current ships, has the NEMM European Frigate (Or the Indian Pandava class patrol craft, depending on which one I found is the latest) as the smallest built-for-combat vessel. I also found in the same image that there *are* actually converted civilian craft that fit almost exactly what I was making an analogy to. One being the Militerized ACES Tug which is literally a Tug with some remote control .50 cals on it. My new analogy is "A torpedo boat with a couple Anti-Aircraft .50 cals on top". Since it's only armaments are 104 KKVs and 3 CIWS guns (which are not .50s but still a decent analogy). So it's basically a space torpedo boat. Again, not a direct size comparison, more of a role comparison.
...so how does a warfare scenario like this not end in Kessler syndrome and mankind being locked to the Earth's surface? Between the debris, bullets, and missiles, I feel like a single battle would render a decent chunk of whatever orbit it takes place in unnavigable.
A decent number of the military spacecraft in TLW are armed with lasers. I imagine they just passively zap whatever space junk they come across. I would also think that at this point (I.e. a decent way into the future) there would be planetside laser arrays which would be dual use Lightsail propulsion lasers, and then in their off-time being used to clean up space junk.
@@ParoXyzmm This ignores the economics of laser systems. Why would you "passively zap" space junk when that's expending vital power and also building up waste heat? Seems like a costly waste of resources with no discernable near-term benefit. While it might be good ecologically, my hometown knows firsthand how military desires for cost-efficiency can absolutely wreck the environment. As for planetside laser systems, those would require absurd amounts of energy, which probably means they'll never actually be built. This is my problem with a lot of "hard" sci-fi. It's in love with its technology, but often fails to take into account the energy and financial economics of those technologies. Sci-fi often assumes infinite energy and infinite money, but that is not the world we live in, nor is it likely ever to be.
@@j-twd930 I'd suggest you look into how often near-misses happen currently. A Russian ASAT test put the ISS into lockdown due to the debris cloud it generated.
@@echoecho3155 That's not how this works. These spacecraft have Nuclear reactors onboard, which, even if run at 100% all the time, would still last (at least) several years before requiring refuelling. In some cases the reactors fuel supply can outlast the service life of the ship it's on, as with real nuclear powered ships. Also, the ships don't "build up" waste heat as can be clearly seen in the video, the ships have large radiators designed get rid of the heat. There's also a good chance the ship could remain functional with only 2/3 or 1/2 of the radiators working, it's standard practice in engineering to have a 1.67 safety factor at minimum. And given the thought that goes into TLW, that was likely taken into account. There are practically no downsides to using lasers to vaporize/deorbit space junk. Also, the video is literally about the defence of an enormous solar power collector, which then beams that power down to earth, there are multiple to dozens of these iirc. In TLW, energy is not hard to come by in any way.
12 years of conventional schooling, a broken arm building a treehouse, a first love, a camping trip where he saved his brother from drowning, premed, breaking up, flight training, four years on deployment, recovery from a shrapnel wound, med school, a new love, acceptance into astronaut training, two more years of earthside training, saying goodbye, two years on-orbit training, mustering to ship's doctor, three years of deployment, five major battles, and then terribly abruptly, stardust.
he chose it
And we are proud of his life and death for us, my whatever he believed have his soul.
Honestly hard scifi battles are infinitely more terrifying than soft scifi battles. You never know when your death will come, but when it does, it'll be fast.
born from stardust, and recycled into starfust
@@aeygi9686we need more of it
"PDCs ON AUTO-TRACK!!!!!!!!!!"
Ahhhh yes the expanse
"Beginning evasive manuevers. I'm puting us into a spin."
The realistic physics are so nice to see
GO GO GADGET KINETIC KILL VEHICLE
this had me rolling - drunkwalk algorithm probably
500 missiles
we need more
We must have more
it is not for tasting
The drums and pipes along with the realistic physics is giving strong BSG vibes, loving it, keep up the good work!!
And The Expanse
“Action stations, action stations. Set condition 1 throughout the fleet.”
0:04
"God Damn! That's a shitload incoming!"
"Firing Torpedoes. I'll try to take out as many as I can with the blast."
The Bella with the Brotomolecule
That solar satellite in the background looks huge :o
The fact that this already flawless, without being algorithmed, like from the beginning, is wild. this is amazing
Dude this is a love letter to hard sci-fi
Just Wow! It already looks awesome!
This has strong "Children of a Dead Earth" vibes ... but looking way better!
These drums and flutes give both Battlestar Galactica and Homeworld vibes! :-)
The music gives me Highfleet vibes
The algorithm will bless, just don't keep it waiting!
And I hope you'll impress!
The video is sooo short! How can you do this to us!?
Danheim slaps! Good fit.
"I sent you a shit ton of missiles. Please respond"
Looks amazing I love the concept of realistic space warfare
I like the _BSG_ vibes.
The primal urge to wage war in space
The Expanse: The Early Years
Thoes KKVs are not messing around
*cacophony of overlapping voices: "We've been trying to reach you about your spacecraft's extended warranty."
apparently commenting helps the algorithm
Something I wonder about PDCs in this kind of scenario is how it's a hose that's pouring out a crap ton of space debris. Won't it just end up as a cloud of projectiles littering lunar orbit?
BTW, the moon's escape velocity is 2.38 km/s (7,800 ft/s). For comparison, the muzzle velocity of the GAU-8 30mm cannon is 1.04 km/s (3,400 ft/s), so most of those rounds are definitely staying in orbit.
In this context the battle is near a solar power array orbiting Earth.
Whether to litter the orbital space with debris and face the consequences later now, or to not intercept incoming projectile and die with pride no one will honor.
Your choice.
the answer to this is rocket boosted munitions for around the moon (2.5 km/2 muzzle velocity) and laser brooms for sweeping orbits clear by ablating debris
Doesn't matter, you are thinking of the *immediate* survival of your ship. Rather litter space with debris in order to _not get killed by missiles now_, than to possibly (very very low chance, remember, space is big) be punctured by shrapnel months later.
Moon-umental!
I’ve been dropping in on The Lunar War on Twitter off and on for awhile but I’m glad the videos are being aggregated on TH-cam now.
"Luna burns"
Splash one!!!
GUYS PLEASE GIVE ME MORE OF IT!
SPRAY AND PRAY
Is this the same guy making the Savages series on yt?
Nope, this is a seperate team unrelated to Fr0s7
Surprised that someone knows the “Savages” series. Now this makes 2 realistic space battle series. 😮😮
@@xinguan2681 there is also Mare Ignis if you ignore the paranormal portal
What year is it set in?
2050-ish
@@henrycooper3431 I sincerely hope we’ll have ships like these by then.
@@jamesharding3459this setting got this fast of an advancement from an asteroid airbusting over US East Coast so eh...
Press F to pay respect for all the people that died defending the Moon.✊
Wonder which ship was which.
0:01 is a NEMM frigate belonging to the EU (specifically French)
0:11 is a Liuzhou Fast Attack Craft belonging to China
@@henrycooper3431 its french
@@kingcam1654 thanks for pointing that out
Comment for the algorithm gods
What, no interceptor missiles?
those exist but arent shown here, only the last chance point defense
It *is* a little shitty chinese fast attack craft, basically the space equivalent of a RHIB with a .50 cal on the top. If my memory serves me right (it probably isn't) I'm pretty sure the chinese craft is the smallest military spacecraft in service.
@@ParoXyzmm it is not the smallest, its more equivalent to a frigate than a rhib
@@kingcam1654
I was making that analogy since (I thought at the time) it was the smallest (Militray) spacecraft in the setting, which I now know is wrong. But the reasoning behing the analogy is that RHIBs are traditionally some of the smallest armed combat vessels, so I was comparing it to that. But it was a shitty analogy lol, RHIBs don't have missiles kek
You're right, it's not the smallest, I found a better image, which, assuming it's complete with all the current ships, has the NEMM European Frigate (Or the Indian Pandava class patrol craft, depending on which one I found is the latest) as the smallest built-for-combat vessel. I also found in the same image that there *are* actually converted civilian craft that fit almost exactly what I was making an analogy to. One being the Militerized ACES Tug which is literally a Tug with some remote control .50 cals on it.
My new analogy is "A torpedo boat with a couple Anti-Aircraft .50 cals on top". Since it's only armaments are 104 KKVs and 3 CIWS guns (which are not .50s but still a decent analogy). So it's basically a space torpedo boat. Again, not a direct size comparison, more of a role comparison.
is this a game?
В этой игре будет представленная Россия и ее космический флот?
F
...so how does a warfare scenario like this not end in Kessler syndrome and mankind being locked to the Earth's surface? Between the debris, bullets, and missiles, I feel like a single battle would render a decent chunk of whatever orbit it takes place in unnavigable.
A decent number of the military spacecraft in TLW are armed with lasers. I imagine they just passively zap whatever space junk they come across. I would also think that at this point (I.e. a decent way into the future) there would be planetside laser arrays which would be dual use Lightsail propulsion lasers, and then in their off-time being used to clean up space junk.
Space is big, its a really low chance of actually getting hit by debris.
@@ParoXyzmm This ignores the economics of laser systems. Why would you "passively zap" space junk when that's expending vital power and also building up waste heat? Seems like a costly waste of resources with no discernable near-term benefit. While it might be good ecologically, my hometown knows firsthand how military desires for cost-efficiency can absolutely wreck the environment.
As for planetside laser systems, those would require absurd amounts of energy, which probably means they'll never actually be built.
This is my problem with a lot of "hard" sci-fi. It's in love with its technology, but often fails to take into account the energy and financial economics of those technologies. Sci-fi often assumes infinite energy and infinite money, but that is not the world we live in, nor is it likely ever to be.
@@j-twd930 I'd suggest you look into how often near-misses happen currently. A Russian ASAT test put the ISS into lockdown due to the debris cloud it generated.
@@echoecho3155 That's not how this works. These spacecraft have Nuclear reactors onboard, which, even if run at 100% all the time, would still last (at least) several years before requiring refuelling. In some cases the reactors fuel supply can outlast the service life of the ship it's on, as with real nuclear powered ships.
Also, the ships don't "build up" waste heat as can be clearly seen in the video, the ships have large radiators designed get rid of the heat. There's also a good chance the ship could remain functional with only 2/3 or 1/2 of the radiators working, it's standard practice in engineering to have a 1.67 safety factor at minimum. And given the thought that goes into TLW, that was likely taken into account.
There are practically no downsides to using lasers to vaporize/deorbit space junk.
Also, the video is literally about the defence of an enormous solar power collector, which then beams that power down to earth, there are multiple to dozens of these iirc. In TLW, energy is not hard to come by in any way.