' Wrote:Well, about drydock - don't agree with you. If you're planning to make space battleships in the amounts higher then few, you definitely have the capability of creating a "drydock". It's not really that complicated, compared to the creation of BS.
EDIT: A drydock.And another one, with people (for size comparsion). Of course, it'll be few times bigger for BS production in space, also it'll require way more resources, at least double "hull" and few more things,, but nothing that special and complicated, compared to what you'll be building inside.
A space 'drydock' would have to be, by the very nature of the ship that was being built, very, very large.
But don't forget one minor detail that we have to deal with here that Disco shipyards would NOT have to worry about is gravity. The pieces and parts would still have the same inertia and resistance to movement - but once they're moving, they're going to keep moving. And instead of having to have all sorts of big wooden chocks under the ship simply to hold it up - you could quite literally hold the darn thing in place with a couple pieces of wire. (Okay, it'd have be pretty strong wire, but it wouldn't have to be much.)
And Knjaz, you're showing precision assembly lines for modern fighters, with everything put together onsite. If you only have an order for 400 fighters total over 5 years, you're not going to make a regular production line capable of putting out 20 fighters per day. Certainly they were much easier to make, but Lockheed was producing 15 P-38's PER DAY in World War II.
