You had it kinda right, Burn. The Valkyiries use a nuclear reactor to heat some kind of reactant mass and expell it at incredibly high pressure. NASA's been working on something kinda like that for decades, but with the anti-nuclear hype in the U.S. they've been unable to get it off the ground. (The only prototype that I know of is now a museum peice sitting in the "Rocket Park" of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama. There might be others if you wanna check) In space, obviously they would use whatever matterial they've got stored in their fuel tanks (Hence the extra propellant in the FAST pack add-ons) In an atmosphere, though, they proably get most of the heated matterial for the thrust from the air sucked into the turobjets, which would explain why Valkyries seem to have virutally unlimited range in an atmosphere. As to just what this propellant matterial actually is, no one is totally sure. It's most likely derived from a matterial they found on SDF-1 that expands ALOT when heated to high temperatures. I imagine the reaction warheads were probably designed the same way. Burn <Burn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Someone posted a question on the forums about fuel in Macross. Does someone have a better answer than me, maybe? Dan, you got any info on that? Here's the link: http://unspacy.msyte.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=14&s=4b7fbf427e26dbb8 b41f14209193f5f2 Thanks, -Burn ================================================================== The UN Spacy Database Mailing List Archives: http://www.freelists.org/archives/unsdb/ Administrative contact: listmaster@xxxxxxxxxx ================================================================== =============Quote of the month============= "More dangerous than the Supervision Army? Sounds interesting!" - Millia Falyna Jenius ======================================== --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more