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Ship Laser + Banshee
Tester:
I'm only half joking about this. Yes... I want to mount a Winter Systems Mercury Ship Laser on a GMC Banshee. Let's not worry about Cost and Availability for the moment.
So the Banshee has 20 slots, the mount takes up between 4 and 11 slots.
You might be asking yourself what the problem is?
Well its a really big laser, its supposed to be on a ship so, the Banshee wouldn't be able to power the laser well or at all.
This is where I really like the mod Special Machinery, maybe Special Machinery (Batteries) or (Capacitors) or more likely Special Machinery (Reactor).
Thoughts? Laughs? Scathing Criticisms?
The_Gun_Nut:
Well, theoretically you could mount the ship laser on the Banshee just fine. It's all the fiddly bits and details that bog it down (like a power source, or targetting system, or lift fans capable of propelling the craft...etc.). ;D
The only sad thing is that they don't list weights for the weapons, otherwise we could get a better idea of how big the thing is. Weight + slots would go a long way to visuallizing size.
I would say it is possible to mount the laser, just like it's possible to mount a 16 inch naval gun on an Abrams tank. It's just not really practical.
Kontact:
A banshee is a near-supersonic flying tank.
I don't see any problem with mounting a laser which is a scaled-up version of a hand-held device and expecting it to be powered by an engine which can send a flying brick like a T-bird to only 7m/s less than Mach 1.
The_Gun_Nut:
It doesn't work that way, Kontact. Electrical generation from a turbine draws an immense amount of power off the turbine, which cannot be used to fly the T-bird. So, unless you replace both the cargo and passenger compartments with either capacitors/battery or a second turbine+fuel to power the laser (which adds a LOT of weight) you would have to land the Banshee in order to fire the laser.
Kontact:
Weight is pretty relative when you're dealing with a vehicle which comes with 18 armor and has 20 expansion slots.
I really wouldn't get too close to logic or reason when dealing with a big block of steel that goes 98% of the speed of sound. :D
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