But don't worry, the OpFor will just sit there and get laser'd. They totally won't do obvious things like sending some missiles back at your suddenly very obvious heat signature.
On warships chill water is used to cool weapon systems. Including the barrels of guns. The same will be done for lasers.
It does make me wonder what they're going to use in that module to cool the heat, though.
Doomsought
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My bet is they will just fail to deal with the problems and it will end up a repeat of the Mark 14 Torpedo fiasco.
Which is fine for a ship floating on top of loads and loads of that useful coolant.
Not so applicable to an airplane.
Aircraft get free high powered air cooling instead. Some WW2 planes used that as the only cooling for their engine.
bintananth
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Some? The overwhelming majority of aero engine designs are air cooled. It's always been that way.
Pros: weight, simplicity, reliability
Con: increased drag
paulobrito
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Not so fast - many use liquid-cooled engines - all the V and H type engines are liquid-cooled, and the radial are the ones that are air-cooled.
Many piston engines are liquid cooled, like in Spitfire or Me-109. Jets and turbojets tend to be cooled enough by their intake air alone, due to the sheer amount they need to flow through them.
paulobrito
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Hurricane, Spitfire, Me/Bf-109, FW-190D, P-51, Mosquito, Lancaster, P-40, P-38, Ju-87, MiG-3, LaGG-3, Yak series, Ki-61, He-111, etc, etc.
All liquid-cooled engines.
All liquid-cooled engines.
bintananth
behind a desk
I didn't say all.
Once the bugs with radials were worked out liquid-cooled inlines mostly got relegated to applications where speed was paramount ... like the Spitfire and Bf-109 (i.e.: fighters).
paulobrito
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LOL, and how many tens of thousands of fighters with liquid-cooled engines are produced during WW2?
Almost all of the British Bombers, half of the German ones, and almost all Soviet bombers also used liquid-cooled engines.
Relegated, indeed...
Almost all of the British Bombers, half of the German ones, and almost all Soviet bombers also used liquid-cooled engines.
Relegated, indeed...
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bintananth
behind a desk
Those were military aircraft during wartime. The budget was "somebody else's problem" and "yes".
EDIT: Civilian aircraft designs almost never use liquid-cooled engines. To airline execs and private pilots shaving a few minutes off a flight isn't worth the increased cost.
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paulobrito
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Nobody cares in WW2...
Nobody was tying to field stealth-fighters with laser weapons in WW2.
Back then they would send fleets of bombers, fully accepting that a bunch of the would get blown out of the sky on each mission.