Nukes on BC-304s

[Conor]

Minor spoilers for 'First Strike' well kinda minor

What was with the nukes on the Apollo? Not the horizon ones but its regular payload. When they launched three nukes at the satellite, they barely made a bang! They were tiny explosions for nukes! Not even the size of the gate! It was like someone put fireworks in a nuclear warhead casing

[PG15]

Were they nukes? I thought they were just missles.

[IcyNeko]

I don't think the BC-304's carry non-nuclear missiles (cept for the Gliders). There's no reason not to carry nukes... if they need non-nuclear shots, fire a round off the railguns.

The Horizon was a multi-stage nuke platform. THe Apollo itself carried a standard paylod of mark 9's and mark.. 7's.

Why no standard nukes? because in order to pack a bang with conventional non-nuke weapons, you'd have to load that sucker down with explosives, and to achieve nuke-equivalent damage, you'd have to pack a ton more.

[Conor]

I'll try to find a screenshot And yeah the F-302s carry modified air-to-air missiles

[Raj_2006]

I don't think the BC-304's carry non-nuclear missiles (cept for the Gliders). There's no reason not to carry nukes... if they need non-nuclear shots, fire a round off the railguns.

The Horizon was a multi-stage nuke platform. THe Apollo itself carried a standard paylod of mark 9's and mark.. 7's.

Why no standard nukes? because in order to pack a bang with conventional non-nuke weapons, you'd have to load that sucker down with explosives, and to achieve nuke-equivalent damage, you'd have to pack a ton more.

actually it is mark 3's and 8's as seen on the Daedalus.

[IcyNeko]

I stand corrected. XD Well done, sir.

[Cory Holmes]

The reason the missles only went pop instead of bang is because they were targeted at the sattilite and not any forcefield around it. It's the same reason why you only get small explosions when the missles are intercepted by Darts.

[IcyNeko]

Yeah, they weren't given enough time to fully arm. Pre-detonation.

[garhkal]

I am wondering where are they getting all these nukes? Are they taking them from the massive arsenal we have, and the russians??

[Elitenova]

I am wondering where are they getting all these nukes? Are they taking them from the massive arsenal we have, and the russians??

guess where the military is keeping their nukes.

[IcyNeko]

America is in no short supply of nuclear weapons. And it's not like we can't create more.

Thankfully, the IOA helps ease any "ZOMG THEY ARE BUILDING WMDs" tensions.

[VSHARMA]

Come on guys. Its' DSC - 304s

[Major Tyler]

Nuclear explosions in space aren't nearly as impressive as they are in an atmosphere. Space is a vacuum, so there is no air to carry the shockwave, and no gravity to create a mushroom cloud effect. All you'll really see is the initial thermal flash.

[Conor]

Come on guys. Its' DSC - 304s

I've heard that too but I vaguely remember Jackson saying BC-304 once.

[freyr's mother]

Honestly, with the whole thing about the nukes and whether they explode or not, I just pretend that we dont even have nukes on the 304's b/c the commanders are so stupid and dont detonate them just before they impact the shield.