Quote:
|
Originally Posted by WarMachine
Griff: no problem! Things can get snitty at times, but this is nice.
As to your observations:
I always maintained that Viper sqdrns were 32 Vipers, organized into two flights of 16 ships, each of four 4-Viper elements; that meshes directly into a Battlestar's lauch profile of 32 launch tubes split between two flight pods.
With one complete sqdrn on the launch rails, I think that there is room for no more than four sqdrn's at an absolute maximum; three sqdrn's would equal 96 Vipers, and still allow room for 10-14 shuttlecraft(w/o transporters, they'll need that many admin-craft, if not more).
In re the recovery operations over Caprica in the aftermath of the Cimtar ambush, the dialogue runs something close to:
Tigh: "What's the count?"
Omega: "67 fighters, Sir...25 of our own..."
That indicates to me a loss-rate of c.75% of the Gal's Vipers, assuming she was at 100% or close to it.
In rewatching the series, I don't see a staggering number of Vipers lost in combat after 'Saga', so I'm thinking that between pick-ups from surviving battlestars and planetary defense sqdrns, and the addition of the bulk of Silver Spar Squadron at the end of "LL", the Gal is up to c.3 sqdrns: Blue, Red and Silver Spar.
Given the Foundry, Mining and Electronics(the Celestra) ships, unless they meet massive opposition/accident, the Gal should be in Vipers for a long time to come.
Did I miss anything?
|
Normal operations of a military unit during peacetime assumes at least 1% attrition over a deployment cycle. That is people and equipment out of service due to injury or mechanical fault. With an aircraft carrier that means crashed aircraft and DEAD pilots.
http://navysite.de/cvn/cvn72.html
One of the BETTER carriers.
Check the accident history.
Then consider the Abe as a battlestar.
As always;
