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Strange. I've read about Orion-type vehicles off-and-on for several decades, and the impression I always had was that the shield would be a hemisphere, or parab
by webmaven 6y ago
Strange. I've read about Orion-type vehicles off-and-on for several decades, and the impression I always had was that the shield would be a hemisphere, or parabolic, rather than shaped like a nosecone.
Am I missing something? How do the lower parallel sides help capture the energy of an explosion below the shield?
- ArnoVW 6y agoI've always understood it to be a plate. That way the vector of the forces is in the direction of travel. A parabolic shape would have to resist sideways forces. A bit like this: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2016/09/16/project-orion-a-nuclear-bomb-and-rocket-all-in-one/