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Even if you have something short of everyone sees everyone, it's hard(er) to justify fighters seeing things their carriers can't, just because carriers can carry bigger sensors, and space is a very sensor friendly environment.ДЇighters do make sense in an orbital reference frame context, where, well, curvature of the earth matters, and where going into atmosphere matters. Unfortunately, there's no horizon for targets to hide behind in space. The fighter can also go to places where the big ships can't see, because of the curvature of the earth. The basic argument against fighters is horizon distance.ДЇighters make sense in surface naval operations because a fighter can go to places where the carrier or cruiser can't. The basic argument for fighters is that people think they're fun and cool. In space, there's no horizon to hide behind. A lot of opposition to the TLAM was that it took away the offensive strike mission from carrier aviation.

TLAMs require lots of data on the target and the terrain and have to fly 'over the horizon'.

If you could build a TLAM that had the operational range of an F-18, you could probably get more of them packed onto a comparable size ship than a comparable mass of F-18s. Now put in the life support compartment, and the payload mass, and it gets even worse rocket performance is the red queen's race, and you rapidly hit declining efficiencies.

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That means you need delta v to get to the objective, then delta v to cancel out your inbound vector, then delta v to get to a rendezvous point, plus delta v for maneuvering in the thick of things.ДЄ rough estimate was that you needed delta v equal to about four times that of a comparable mass missile that just needs to do a drive-by shooting.ДЇour times the delta v means that your fuel fraction just went up by a factor of something around four (depends on your I sp). The other deciding factor is this: A 'fighter' needs to be recovered (ed note: Otherwise it is some kind of manned kamikaze missile). Twenties, so they can display their swagger, coolness, and fast moves on any attractive Only two otherДЎ) To destroy gargantuan BATTLE STATIONS, which are vulnerable only toДў) To give prominent roles to young males in their early Mostly Space Fighters fight each other, which is logicalД®nough in itself but doesn't explain why they are used in the first place. In naval terms they are more analogous to motor gunboats than to They don't operate in an essentially different medium, the way aircraft operate in aДifferent medium from surface ships, there is no fundamental reason why they should be all Tactical value is unclear, since the are really just small spacecraft themselves. Some cases they will be carried piggyback on other, larger Combat Spacecraft. Moves on any attractive female of an INTERBREEDABLEД«ecause of their short range, Space Fighters usually mustД«e carried into action by TRANSPORTER ships, though in At least among EARTH HUMANS and ALIENS WTH FOREHEAD RIDGES, theseДЄre usually males in their early twenties, known for their swagger, coolness, and fast The crew is limited to one person, or occasionally two.

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Not to mention the fact that it is forty freaking years after the first Star Wars movie came out and they are still making new ones jam packed with space fighters. There are idiotic space fighter planes in both Battlestar Galacticas, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Babylon 5, Space Above And Beyond, and many many others. While you are at it you might as well have your starship troopers wear bright red coats with no armor, firmly resisting the urge to take cover, and fighting out in the open in broad ranks like rows of targets in a carnaval shooting gallery. The concept stinks on ice scientifically, militarily, and economically. I've got new for you: in the real world combat spacecraft based on one-man fighter planes is just about the greatest military invention since the rubber spear. And ever since then sci-fi fans have lost their freaking minds. Aw fer cryin' out loud! When he was making his first 'Star Wars' movie George Lucas thought it would be cute to add scenes inspired by old World War 2 dogfighting movies.

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