[AAC] Speed of "FTL-communication" in the Honorverse

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but forkliftramp.com
<Brian_knowspam.McDonald.TakeThisOut@shaw.ca> wrote on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:31:23 GMT in
alt.books.david-weber :
>On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:56:14 -0700, Loren Pechtel
><lorenpechtel.TakeThisOut@hotmail.invalid.com> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:59:31 GMT, forkliftramp.com
>><Brian_knowspam.McDonald.TakeThisOut@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>>>There's also the issue of moving targets. You're aiming based on
>>>>where it was 12 seconds ago at max combat range.
>>>
>>>max range for lasers is 3 seconds in the weberverse at the current
>>>state of the art.
>>>
>>>assuming ftl sensors like radar are used it's 3 seconds out to the
>>>target and 3 seconds back with the data about the target.
>>
>>Oops--I pulled a NASA--wrong units.
>>
>>Radar isn't FTL. The only FTL sensors they have are grav and I don't
>>get the impression they tell you fine detail.
>
>
>my bad dunno what i was thinking there.

The details which gravitic sensors can give you is the location and size of
the "disturbance in the force". All the other information comes from
databases of known signatures for various types, and possibly specific
ships. A comparison can be made to Sonar in the wet navy of today.

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In article <452c6ade$0$1722$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, Loren Pechtel <lorenpechtel RemoveThis @hotmail.invalid.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:58:44 GMT, pyotr filipivich
><phamp RemoveThis @mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> I would suspect that the range on these things is "limited" and
>>stringing a line of "buoys" from here to there, in normal space, would
>>prove to be a right royal payne. For starters, things drift. The galaxy
>>is in orbit,a string of communication boys is also going to be "in orbit".
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>Drift isn't a big deal. Out in deep space things move slowly. Let
>them drift--they'll have died of old age or obsolescence before they
>drift too far away from their position.
>

It isn't just drift that's stopping the RMN dropping loads of buoys between
systems.

To do any good, they'd have to go to front line systems and then you've got to
start applying assets to protecting these highly expensive and top secret
drones from Havenite raiders.

Not to menton that the whole paradigm of fighting has shifted by _At All
Costs_ to deep strikes on internal systems rather than hitting front line
systems and drilling through so a comm buoy network has no military necessity
any more and the commercial lines aren't going to get their hands on the tech
for quite a while I imagine...



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