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Old 14th Oct 2020, 23:10
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Originally Posted by ORAC
Delivering it is perfectly credible.

The scissors jack to unload, and the refuelling. turnaround and launch is a bit trickier....
Depends on reason behind the delivey. If just sending emergency supplies to a permenent base, like deigo garcia, these will be a non issue. But if you sending it to a marine beach head or a cut off unit then money is no object, just bulldoze them into a corner somewhere as refueling and then the actual relaunch is completely impractical the a without fuel or flame diverters the output of 3 raptors will be pretty devestating

Other option would be landing them on barges out to sea, this is already the plan for point to point, maybe a barge for landing supported by one of the old carriers, it could use reactors to power a sabietier process to create fuel to relaunch. Theres going to be a lot of options, some will work and some wont,
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