Timeline for What would combat look like inside an O'Neill Cylinder?
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| Aug 5, 2020 at 14:03 | comment | added | Phillip Roberts | This is more the kind of new way of fighting I was looking for I think. Being able to pop up anywhere from underneath on the battlefield makes large scale line warfare obsolete! I think however as soon as you pop up from underneath your at the mercy of whats on the inside, you'd have to hit multiple strong points at once or establish more of a stable beach head. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 1:35 | comment | added | Mon | And of course in order to take out the point defenses you have to get with range with systems capable of doing this - so the cylinder has the opportunity to shoot back. Your boarding parties are likely to take heavy losses going in and even heavier once inside because the defenders will know where its possible to breach and where not. Also initially at least they can potentially isolate/seal off boarded sections - and do all sorts of nasty things to people inside them. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 1:33 | comment | added | Mon | The sun shade is a clever idea and might work. Best bit is it forces the occupants of the cylinder to come to you, not the other way round. The rest, not so sure. Breaching pods look wonderful in SF but in reality they would be easy to detect on approach if only because they have to decelerate. An O'Neil Cylinder will by also default have a thick hull designed to prevent breaches. Also because its a complex machine there will be only so many points where you can breach and access living or work spaces e.g. breaching a sealed water tank or turbine pump gets you where? | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 17:28 | history | answered | o.m. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |