When the Deadalus discovered the Wraith had blocked the Asgard beam why didn't they just beam the nuke near the hive ships rather than trying to get it onboard? A nuke on the surface of the ship would destroy it just as eaily as being inside it!
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The counter measures may stop beaming within x distance which will make the nukes inefective. That or its to make it so we cant just wipe out wraith ships but have to find new weapons etc.
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The Wraith use Jamming technology to prevent the beaming of nukes aboard their ships.
We know from jamming tech in real life Earth that it always covers a certain radius around the source of the jammer itself. You can jam cell phones, radio waves, then comes the military stuff that can jam GPS transmitters etc. What do they all have in common, that each one covers a certain area that extends outside source of the jammer itself. Therefore it'll be exactly the same with the Wraith, the jamming signal won't just cover the inside the ship, it'll also extend outside & around it as well. This means that the closest distance that they could beam a nuke to the ship & detonate it, would be still too far away to do any main damage to the ships, if at any at all.
Being that they are so large, then it's a waste of resources to be doing this at all. This is why we won't have seen them try it on-screen before.
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Firstly i agree that the jamming would probably prevent the nukes from getting close enough but also we still arent sure what makes up the hull of a wraith ship it may have an armour that will resist the nukes blast so its a waste of nukesthe very young do not always do as they are told...
you blow up one star and suddenly everyone expects you to be able to walk on water... next parting the red sea
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Originally posted by NATIKWhat about firing them normally, and then use the beam to transport them as close to the ships as possible, thereby reduceing the chance of the Wraith being able to intercept them.
The reason that I came up with when pondering this earlier, actually posted on it a couple of months ago, was that it would still be beamed a great distance away from the ships, therefore would still just as easily get shot down. In all the eps where they've fired the warheads, they have actually been allowed to get fairly close before being taken out by a Dart or shot down by the Hive weapons.
They could do it easily if the jammer only protected the Hive ship's internal structure. However from Earth tech, all jammers have a certain range that is broadcast around this area, which affects everything within that target area. Hence, this is probably why they haven't been shown to do that either, this range is still so far outside the Hive ship that it just isn't practical.
well we have plenty of them, so wasting one wouldnt be too big a deal. im just waiting for them to reverse engineer a cloak and fit it to the warhead. one invisible thermonuclear device headed your way mr. hiveship.
This is why we won't see invisible undetectable warheads etc.
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