What if you used liquid hydrogen as the fuel for SAMs?
>>65441978Your Sams would be obnoxiously large for no real performance benefit for such a small dV requirement. Cryo tankage is a bitch, but LH2 has an especially low density so the tankage mass is even worse because it has to be around twice the volume for the same mass of fuel. There’s a reason that every rocket produced in the last 20 years has switched to using Methalox.
>>65441978You'd have to keep shipping in more liquid hydrogen just to keep the missiles ready because hydrogen always leaks out of the tanks no matter how well they're made. It doesn't just sit there until you need it like solid fuels.
>>65441978Molten Lithium with a fluorine catalyzer and a hydrogen afterburner.
>>65442019Let's add a perchlorate ion to the fluorine while we're at it.
Hell yeah she is on here. I spotted her this morning. Fucking fat whore.
Any liquid fueled rocket has lower readiness than solid fuel ones, even if the fuel performs better on paper. You need time to fuel it as you can't keep it constantly fueled (the fuel eats the rocket). Where as with solid boosters you just light your candle and it goes fwooosh.Non-military applications can afford to be lazy with prep time so they use the better-performing, longer set-up liquid fuels.
>>65442038iranian balistic ones do use liquid fuel, extract your conclusion from how the war is going, what d be interesting is using a shuttle with the Saturn rocket to release non nuclear bombs from orbit.
>>65442019And I thought hydrazine and concentrated fuming nitric acid was enough to show the ground crews how much you hate them...
>>65442046>extract your conclusion from how the war is goingnot good for iran.
>>65442046Liquid fuel is easier to make, harder to maintain, and lowers readiness.The Iran boondoggle says more about our administration than Iran's capabilities or that of their missiles. Best Korea also uses liquid rockets. Stop looking at tea leaves to explain the weather.
>>65442046>using a shuttle with the Saturn rocket to release non nuclear bombs from orbitBut why? What even warrants a 130000 lbs payload?
>>65442019Nice to see another tri-propellant chad on here for once.
>>65442081Making jjngoistic teenagers momentarily forget the existential dread of homework and looming adulthood.
>>65442170Adulthood is a myth perpetuated by pinkos with fancy PhDs, man never truly matures only fruits and bonds do.
>>65442046>extract your conclusion from how the war is going>the USN is unable to be everywhere at once to intercept garage made loitering munitions>international law is too cucked to let merchies bolt on a 40mm bofors to intercept propeller driven cyber kamakazies>therefore every single weapon in the Iranian arsenal is superior to the US
>>65442019>Molten LithiumYou can keep it molten by making your tanks out of Cesium 137 too!
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>>65442640That just looks like your regular LongDong7
>>65441978They would be extremely unreliable because liquid hydrogen leaks straight through solid metal (due to the atoms being so small). Also needs to be fuelled directly before launch because the cryogenic fuel needs to stay cold, can't just have it sitting in the tank or it will all boil off. So even by the time you fuel it whatever you are trying to shoot down has been and gone and then if you then try to launch it (without rigorous inspections) chances are it just blows up.
>>65442640>i hate nature the rocket
>>65442019>>65442098>>65442640Been done before. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KX-0Xw6kkrc
>>65442954They had lots of exciting ideas to evaluate.
>>65442954The radioactive self-heating is the innovative part that hasn't been done before. It saves the weight that would otherwise be needed for insulation.
