In Response To: UNSC MAC round velocity (Vanguard21)
Well, here's the way I see it:
SuperMAC at .4c is calculated at 5.1 teratons.
Mind you, errors are to be expected from Fall of Reach considering he had 7 weeks to finish it.
I personally think the 30 km/s figure for the MAC fired by the Commonwealth is off. Making it 30,000 km/s would put it more in tune with the 120,000km/s figure for the Super MACs.
Now, consider this: The Covenant shield shrugged off a nuke that was undoubtedly high end megaton range, and yet it was struck by a MAC round and took significant damage. If it's 30km/s, then we're talking about maybe 50 kilotons of energy, which wouldn't make sense since it's probably not even 1/1000th that of the nuke. However, the 30,000km/s would make more sense since it actually did damage and is in the high end gigaton level damage.
Also consider that the combat range in that instance was 3,000km at the very least and a 30km/s round would take 100 seconds to reach the Covenant ship, which is MUCH slower than the Archer missiles(we have a figure on them later on at being about .1c) that the ship was able to dodge previously, and *those* things can track.
Btw, the Ascendant Justice's turrets(and presumably most Covenant Capital ships) is around 200 Gigatons of energy based off the fact that it was able to melt an asteroid 3km long with some still pouring out. That should give you a figure of what kind of energy the UNSC ship Titanium-A armor have to absorb.
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