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Seawolf................always willing to listen to anothers point of view.
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Do "we" as a World Power have absolute 100% supreme knowledge of whats entering our own atmosphere 24-7-365??
Lets say this aircraft came down somewhere in the deep South Atlantic. Could anyone say what it was ???
I understand that the Space Shuttle once it cracks the sound barrier with a Ka-Boom it is a free fall glider, no engine noise.
Perhaps instead of ablative cocoons they can be standard drop pods designed into the overall stealth shape??
When the Aircraft drops below radar coverage, the pods open and drop off leaving the mechs in the carrying position ??
Glad you like the concept, I just wanted something to have a unique twist to the scenarios we play.
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As pointed out by JackMc, Military organizations such as NORAD would have the capability on that basis to monitor what is coming from outside the atmosphere within reason.
Would a sensor net tell you where something has landed? Yes, its called GPS. Would it tell you what it is, more than likely not. However, let's remember what we are discussing here. We are talking about the insertion of a mechanical object design to circumvent tracking systems to perform acts of espionage.
In the Battletech universe: Any system has a Drop port. Therefore they have Air Traffic Control. Essentially a sensor net that is global that controls the outbound and incoming flights of dropships and other small craft, as well as more conventional atmospheric craft. Essentially its one big Command and Control suite. Your craft would be picked up, essentially becuase its stealth armour leaves a whole in the air.
Let's put it this way. Look at a submarine. from the surface, you may or may not pick up the fact that its down there. However from the air, there is a shadow moving underneath the ways. Without sonar, you may presum its a whale, but the reality is, the submarine is one big hole in the water.
Your craft is essentially the same thing except its re-entering atmosphere, causing friction, ionizing and giving off one hell of a radar signal. Stealth or no stealth, you'll be showing on the screens becuase your exciting the air around you.
Now by the time you get to low atmosphere and resume flight, someone knows your there. Most large craft do not handle well at low altitude, and handle even less under a thousand feet. If a pilot chooses to fly that thing NOE to get under ground radar, he'll be fighting the plane just to be able to keep her airborne. Your dealing with wind, trees, animals (the occasional flying monkey, but thats another story) and terrain features such as building and mountains.
Building your ship to incorporate the drop pods into the stucture would lesson the radar signature, but you're still running the risk of detection once any of those bays open. Even a drop pod opening up is immediately picked up by radar.
Most BT systems are going to have your average ATCS systems. Major industrial worlds, march capitals, House Capitals, are going to have the state of the art you-are-here systems.
Unfotunately all dropships, from what the fluff texts have stated, even aerodynes handle like drunk cows and are bricks. Something that huge will attract attention.
Oh and one other thing while I am thinking of it. Someone had made the comment of a meteorite passign through the atmosphere. That person will realize that the supposed statistical meteorite isn't a metorite when it slows down and begins to fly. Meteors tend to not do those sorts of things.
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For reentry!?!
or it re-enters in the inverted position, then flips over as soon as the re-entry "flare" is something the mechs can handle
