A shockwave can travel along the solid structure itself as the medium. Any ship that is actually directly hit would be vaporized. It’s just the whole point of nuke is not needing a direct hit. I doubt any realistic space vessel with anything even remotely similar to plausible near future technology could survive a direct hit from even a moderately sized conventional explosive.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yeah, it takes incredible amounts of energy just to move unarmored ships slowly around our own solar system.
Seems like adding armor would make them so heavy and slow that they wouldn’t be worth using.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah that’s why any reasonable hard sci-fi has to rely on highly advanced fusion or speculative energy technologies