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    Beamed Nukes in atlantis

    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!


    #2
    It wouldn't destroy it as easily, but yes, it would certainly be more effective than using the rocket engines currently used to launch them.
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      #3
      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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        #4
        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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          #5
          I have been asking this myself the other week !!
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            #6
            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 nukes
            the 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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              #7
              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.

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                #8
                What 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.

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                  #9
                  Now, that could actually work.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by NATIK
                    What 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 problem with that is, that it can only go as close as top where the jamming signal ceases to be effective. For all we know, that could be in the whole vicinity of where Daedalus is, therefore they might only be able to beam it a few m's extra before the jammers come into effect.

                    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.
                    They will never do this, they haven't even done the most obvious thing that actually should have been their first course of action after saving Atlantis. That is take a PJ's cloak, install it on Daedalus, then it could sneak up beside, behind the target ship or whatever, then take it out easily. The reason that they haven't do it, even though in real life that's what they would have done, is that it would make things all too easy for the SGA team. The fact that they can sneak up undetected on their enemy, would mean that the Wraith could be wiped out within a matter of weeks.

                    This is why we won't see invisible undetectable warheads etc.

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                      #11
                      Wraith_Hunter makes a very good point.

                      That and it was too easy to beam nukes aboard... we could simply do that for every Hive ship in the galaxy systematically.

                      Then there's no more show.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by ItsDan
                        It wouldn't destroy it as easily, but yes, it would certainly be more effective than using the rocket engines currently used to launch them.
                        I'm just wondering, could we use some primitive plasma propulsion on our missiles?

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                          #13
                          You know, after i posted the thread i thought, if it was that easy they would have done it and yes the show would have ended already.

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