>PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!
How does ramming work in space combat? Does 'ramming speed' imply there is an optimal speed that will do more damage to an enemy's ship while minimizing damage to one's own or something? Or did Worf mean to just go at full impulse?
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>he didn't see The Last Jedi
spotted the malding chudcel!
Ramming is a legitimate tactic in naval warfare since the ancient era. The Greeks used it in the Persian wars.
>naval warfare
Doesn't really apply to ships that can operate freely within all dimensions of a 3D space.
Actually it does you absolute moron
How the frick would tactics designed for slow moving craft that can only operate on X/Z axes be useful for high speed craft that constantly move on all 3 axes?
because the ship that wants to ram the other ship can... follow it.
Ever played a multiplayer flight sim or just simply read or seen anything on how actual dogfights with aircraft go? If you had you'd realise how moronic you sound.
People ram other planes all the time in flight sims wtf
Submarines are a thing.
And SLOW AS FRICK! So again, not even remotely comparable. Naval warfare tactics would hold no use in a space setting. Aerial warfare would to a point but again, it'd be dramatically different still due to the insane differences in speed, lack of gravitational forces etc.
Why the frick are you morons arguing about this. Warf was going to ram a fricking massive Borg cube. Did you see that battle? The fed ships were swarming around it like flies on shit. The Defiant could have rammed it no problem.
Let's forget, it would have done next to no damage and Warf is an r-slur.
>point ship at other ship
>crash
really doesn't matter at all what sort of craft
I can’t go five days without hearing about a new dogfight that ended with one fighter jet ramming the other.
But dude, you can just follow the other plane then ram it!
All modern air combat happens by ramming. The ramming is just done by self-flying rocket planes loaded with explosives.
Probably just full impulse.
I think you nailed what I hate about Nu-Trek so much; everything is no longer structured like a military operation, it's just a bunch of douchebags in a space ship doing whatever. Even the baddies aren't doing anything in a structured way.
The Federation has never been an arm of the military though
I don't know
The Expanse had the best space warfare. It was like 3D sub fights. Bretty cool
It literally means full steam into your enemies.
Dumb ass I do this in war thunder
>ancient Greek Triremes
Anon, those were glorified rowboats, I don't think you can compare them to starships.
>Does 'ramming speed' imply there is an optimal speed that will do more damage to an enemy's ship while minimizing damage to one's own or something?
Generally it means pushing a vehicle or craft to its maximum attainable speed without regards to damage in order to inflict damage upon the enemy.
More modern ships have employed ramming as well. In WW2 the destroyer HMS Glowworm rammed the Admiral Hipper when it found itself hopelessly outgunned during a battle, and later the HMS Campbeltown famously rammed and detonated itself in the Normandie dry dock, which took the facility out of commission for the entirety of the war and prevented Germany from being able to repair or service the Tirpitz and other larger vessels.
I can’t go three days without hearing about a new naval battle where the boats were ramming each other.
>Besides ramming wouldn't be an effective tactic. Modern warships have watertight compartments that will prevent sinking if breached and advanced radars and sonars that will detect any approaching ships long before they pose a threat
Who are you quoting?
You.
>He doesn't ram enemy planes when he's out of ammo instead of returning to bas
So your defense of your idiotic idea is the story of a warship that was navigating through shipping channels with civilian ships and suffered a collision with one? You’re actually fricking stupid enough to acknowledge radar in your post as if suggesting the tanker somehow snuck up on the other ship lol.
Would that even be a safe maneuver in space? You'd only need a small breach to lose air pressure...
I'd assume that making it as safe as can be is what he's ordering people to prepare for - diverting power to structural integrity fields, deflector, and so on. You know, the systems that exist so that if the ship comes into contact with a micro-meteor or something the hull isn't just shredded to frick and beyond.
Considering full impulse is 1/4 lightspeed it should be sufficient to ram things. It's why Kirk was being reckless doing 1/4 impulse in Spacedock. He was basically saying let's casually scoot out of this space station interior through a door barely wider than our ship at 67.4 million kph.
Why even have phasers then? Why not just strap an impulse engine onto a chunk of metal or a rock with a decent mass and use that as a weapon?
>full impulse is 1/4 lightspeed it should be sufficient to ram things
Yeah no shit, it would melt the target on impact.
Pretty much all sci-fi with FTL or near light-speed travel are very inconsistent with this. The amount of energy it would take is usually unrealistic in-universe and it could easily be turned into an extremely powerful weapon.
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>perhaps today IS a good day to die
they arent speaking english so its just some dumb Black folk translation of some dumb Black folk scifi nonsense
>reinforced metal "horn" built directly into the front of a wooden ship, specifically made to do damage to other wooden ships
>this is totally the same as a spaceship, guys
Shields can accomplish the same thing and even if they didn't most captains won't accept mutual suicide as a win condition.
Attempting to ram forces them to maneuver so they can't present hard mounted weapons or just disengage and go to warp, giving a tactical advantage in either case.
f=ma
he was going to RAM his enormous Klingon BBC into Adam Scott's bussy
>he doesn't understand basedboy hotheaded tactics
I bet you never shouldercharged anyone in high school
It works better if you have a big knife on the front.
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Anon, he was talking about sex and drugs
Its kinda funny cause Star Trek nerds always thought of Star Trek as being “scientific” and “realistic” while dunking on Star Wars for having “The Force”.
Frick you Rich Evans you fedora.
fricking morons, read the wikia
he said ramen speed, it's the speed to which ramen won't spill from the bowls but still fast enough for evasive maneuvers
PREPARE FOR RAMMING SNEED!
Imagine having Worf as your captain
Theoretically you would go slow as shit to just bump the other ship assuming yours is stronger. Otherwise as you increase speed (and these ships are FTL so it really breaks physics) it would be extremely easy to vaporize yourself and the enemy ship.
Last Jedi opened the box for people realizing this napkin calculation. ANY mass driver that you can accelerate to lightspeed is the most powerful weapon in the universe. The only thing you need to destroy star systems is a rock. The rest is just about how fast it slams into the planet. Since most sci fi has some FTL or super speed space travel every setting is completely fricked by this. There’s NO logical way to prevent it either. It’s the most GRUG SMASH level of insight - if you can get into space you know this physics.
I think The Expanse is the only show that’s taken this even slightly seriously. Frankly everyone should know about it because we’re gonna have private spacecraft in our lifetimes and possible space mining… you can quite literally end civilization with a rock using our tech level. NASA altered an asteroid by slamming a tiny probe into it. Make a big probe with an engine and start pushing and the rest is just timing. Even a tiny nudge in space is enough.
He's a Klingon
I'm gonna introduce Wharf to my family
>Adrift, but salvageable