a flying space battleship eh?
Well, any fighter plane would be worse than useless- you couldn't do anything to the ship, but just flying in it would it pick you out as a target.
A conventional battleship was designed to be the toughest ship that could be built- Able to take a hell of a lot of hits and sink anything in existence.
It had two major vulnerabilities because it was strictly a surface vessel: From above and from bellow- submarines and aeroplanes.
A ship designed for fighting and flight operates in a fully 3d arena. There IS no equivalent of air attack or undersea attack to a space battleship. As a "battleship" it will be virtually invulnerable to any vessel that isn't equivalent to it. Long range sensors on-board would make great waves of lessor craft pointless- it'd vaporise them as before they were closer than a few thousand kilometres.
…The major vulnerability is that the flying battleship isn't big enough to out gun a planet. So Lonnehart's buster cannon hidden in a volcano would do it.
With the ship on it's way… you're buggered. If the planet knows it's coming though and it's not there yet, all that's needed is building up big enough defences on the earth as well as defences and sensor networks throughout the solar system- that way it couldn't even try and bombard us with meteorites. -_-
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Suppose a huge flying battleship was coming to destroy your city...
I would organise people to construct numerous fake monuments outside the city.
Aliens can never resist blowing up land marks, so we could keep them occupied till the microphobes in earths atmosphere killed them/ will smith and Jeff Goldblume uploada vrisu to their mother ship/ the Stargate SG-1 team go through the gate onto the ship and destroy it/ flash gordon arrives/ someone plays Slim Whitman's song, "Indian Love Call", on the radio and the aliens brains explode.
Aliens have a lot of weaknesses, so it is just a matter of keeping them occupied till someone finds how to get rid of them.
Glad to see I'll have company.No matter the situwation I would propably just go into the mountains. I mean I don't have a way to fight back nor do I know why they are here. I'd bring a radio to make sure I know whats going on.
To the mountains!
Man, we should totally eat cheese-its and watch Independence day….in the mountains.
I would organise people to construct numerous fake monuments outside the city.You forgot the Doctor.
Aliens can never resist blowing up land marks, so we could keep them occupied till the microphobes in earths atmosphere killed them/ will smith and Jeff Goldblume uploada vrisu to their mother ship/ the Stargate SG-1 team go through the gate onto the ship and destroy it/ flash gordon arrives/ someone plays Slim Whitman's song, "Indian Love Call", on the radio and the aliens brains explode.
Aliens have a lot of weaknesses, so it is just a matter of keeping them occupied till someone finds how to get rid of them.
the Stargate SG-1 team go through the gate onto the ship and destroy itStargate SG-1 is the greatest. They'd just gate onto the ship, use some stealth (the Goa'ould are so nousy it'd be easy to avoid them) and take out the ship's engines. Mission complete, job well done.
But in reality, to the hills.
I remember when Starkiller pulled a bigger ship out of the sky…oh right…no Force…
You don't really need "The Force" to take down a flying battleship like the one in the video. Despite what Ozone says, flying battleships do have weaknesses that can be exploited. This is why you almost always see them surrounded by squadrons of fighters. While shielding could protect it, the engines are one weak point. You could fly in and shoot a very heavily shielded missile into it. Assuming the enginewash didn't cause it to detonate prematurely, you'd have one slow battleship if your hit was successful.
oh, wait… I was thinking about the wrong "Force"… :)
If there were battleships everywhere, destroying every city, I'll get a girl and f*ck until we are blown.
If there is only one ship, destroying just my city (as an exemple of domination) I'll get a girl, pack her into my little car, drive away and then celebrate our survival with a good f*ck.
Unfortanetly it's only fiction :D
Despite what Ozone says, flying battleships do have weaknesses that can be exploited. This is why you almost always see them surrounded by squadrons of fighters.You see that because of WW2 when real ocean going battleships were at the mercy of mere dive-bombers because as ships they were limited to the ocean and inferior to those teeny fast moving targets that had the whole sky to play in. TV shows and manga incorrectly take that as a model for Sci-fi.
In space it's different. Manned fighters are an idiot idea since the humans inside would be far too vulnerable and not able to to handle the stresses of fast manoeuvres for long periods of time.
A big battleship has the advantage since the range and speed of the weapons and sensors that could be mounted on a large vessel with a huge power plant would far exceed the capabilities of any small craft. -Basically the sensors you could put on the big vessel would be able to spot that fighter long before it could spot the big vessel -days, weeks, or years. And the weapons you could mount on it like particle accelerator guns and huge high power lasers would be impossible to dodge or escape by anything. Smaller craft would never see what destroyed them.
The only way to kill it would be other similar craft, sabotage, or a trap of some sort…
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The sex option could possibly work though… Crafty.
Well if I was in Japan: 
Wave Motion Gun!
With NYC nearby I'm safe. They'll blow that up and I'll wait for the Jersey Devils F-16s to show up. Oh and there's BB-62 USS New Jersey battleship docked in Camden. Space battleship? Didn't you know that the restored Iowas were space battleships too? 
Alien computers dont have virus protection and aliens are very stupid about letting crafts that aren't piloted by their own people land on their ships without asking question.
Then again most aliens think of humanity as being too inferior to figure out how their equipment worked, so a virus suddenly infiltrating their computer system would be a total surprise and they'd let the fighter in because they'd assume that humans are too stupid to figure out how to control it.
I don't remember my history on this too well, but there are many times when a technically "superior" invader would invade another country, thinking that the country is too primitive to fight them back and they end up not only being surprised, but driven back as well.
I don't remember my history on this too well, but there are many times when a technically "superior" invader would invade another country, thinking that the country is too primitive to fight them back and they end up not only being surprised, but driven back as well.I bet Hernando Cortes might disagree with that statement.
And try telling that to 18/19th century Europe. They practically conquered the entire globe at one point. There was a reason why England was once called "The empire on which the sun never sets".
Case and point. Territories that belonged to European countries in 1800…
… and 1900.
The latter map includes ALL countries that practiced imperial expansionism so there are few none-European nations in that one. It's easy to see though that the biggest participants were the European ones.
I don't remember my history on this too well, but there are many times when a technically "superior" invader would invade another country, thinking that the country is too primitive to fight them back and they end up not only being surprised, but driven back as well.I bet Hernando Cortes might disagree with that statement.
Hernando Cortes was nearly defeated several times. If he had not burned his ships after receiving reinforcments at percisely the right time…
Pizarro only won over the Incas because he walked right into a civil war.
Abyssina and the Italians
Afganistan and the British
It took three (maybe four if you count the Punjab) generations of generals to conquer India for the British.
It took two decades for the French to pacify Algeria and that was after an American fleet destroyed the Barbary Pirates in 1816.
The Zulus.
China Gordon
The Mahdi
Russia and the Ottomans
Maori
Philippines
Jamestown succeeded after several other French and British and Spanish attempts failed.
It was only looked easy once it was done and it took the revolver and breech loading rifle to make it seem easy.
The Plains Indians could not be fought by Europeans until after the invention of the revolver. Before that it was always make friends and trade.
Conquering these places took a long time…Well… the two maps that I provided, did span a century in between. I wasn't saying that it was an overnight thing. Naturally, the local population wasn't gonna just hand over control to some foreign invaders. The fact remains that superior technology helped these invaders achieve their goals.
I was also aware that Cortes faced many difficulties during his conquest but the fact was that he was against overwhelmingly large forces with a much, much smaller army. He still pulled it off though, difficult as it may have been.
I know this is unrelated to this thread, but do you guys think this would be a giant battleship?
Youtube vid: Ace Combat 6 Mission 9
You'll see glimpses of it at 4:30. I'm sure the four other smaller (but still giant) planes are battleship types, but not sure about the largest one since planes can LAND ON IT!!! O_O
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