chemical analysis on the ceramics, the crystals, and the ferrous alloys. Test their capacities and qualities; melting points, stress tests, all that. I want to know just what we're dealing with, so we can possibly make it ourselves, or at least figure out how to break it.
6 engineers.
From what the engineers can tell, the ceramics are roughly equivalent to a ceramic being developed for orbiters and jet turbines, but with none of the low tensile strength observed in those materials. The engineers are greatly excited by this find, but warn that they cannot do more research on this without better equipment, and advise showing them to a materials engineer.
The crystals appear to be a form of quartz glass, 'layers of dots, seemingly created via laser'. It is uncertain what role this plays in the craft, although one engineer speculated about data storage.
The ferrous alloy has a melting point roughly equivalent to that of tungsten, a tensile strength of about twice that of steel, and a compressive strength roughly equivalent to that of concrete. The engineers put to work on this warn that they need similar equipment to what is needed for the ceramics.
Examine the engines, if there are engines, as well, and we should definitely do firing tests on the [craft] weapons. I want to see what mechanism they use.
6 general engineers.
The ship appears to have two engines, connected to a dense network of reaction control thrusters, along with a pair of much larger thrusters at the 'rear' of the craft. Geiger readings
See if the craft has any weapons, get one of our ballistics engineers working on that, too.
6 engineers and 2 ballistic.
No weapons located, and the engenders proceeded to assist in other projects.
Get our biochemist and doctors working on the alien captured. I know we said to analyze them, but I want them to be goddamn experts on the way their cells work, the way their organs interact, and most of all; I want to know about the immune system. Diseases and poisons are our friends, when used on the enemy.
The biochemist states that the aliens have 'right handed' amino acids, are carbon-based, appear to be warm-blooded, and require far less oxygen to survive. Indeed, oxidization occurred in parts of the corpses, leading them to believe that they require breathing apparatus on earth. Further examination of stomach contents and similar reveal that the diet of the class A's appears to be more vegetarian than that of the class B's. As for immune systems, the biochemist and the doctors state that expecting terrestrial diseases to work on an extraterrestrial is like expecting humans to exist in space.
I also want us constructing ballistic gel equivalents for the alien life-forms, to simulate how it will act inside [armor].
2 docs and a biochemist +1 engineer to design the dummies
This goes fairly well, and dummies of both types are created fairly easily. Making more shouldn’t take too long, but would still have to be a specialist project, unless you want thousands and thousands of them.
Can we fire [personal scale] weapons (all types, not just 1 and 3)? What sort of damage can they do? Are our APCs safe from direct hits? (just in case: don't use actual APCs, use armor plate). Can our armored vests stop the fragments? And are there fragments to stop or is the explosion just a side effect? How much ammo do the weapons have on average? Can we identify spare ammo? If we can, and we have it, can you actually replace ammo in a gun? Do other tests- we have 13 Type Ones left, I'd like to keep one 'for the museum' and the rest are released to the engineering team to play with as they see fit.
6 engineers and 2 ballistic.
Test firing of the weapons goes well enough, although sighting is near-impossible, the trigger mechanism is near-impossible for humans to use, and they are a bit too heavy for normal use, although it is pointed out that it is far lighter than the S-18/100. The round, which appears to be a bastardized cross between a RPG, a hollow point round and a tank shell (particularly one of the APHE type). from what they can tell, shortly after firing a small rocket motor fires, increasing speed of the round to roughly 300m/s. On impact with a target it appears to explode in such a way as to drive a stream of molten metal (they believe it is a lead alloy) into the target. Tests against mockups of BTR-80s reveal that as they currently stand they can be pierced, and the rounds are less effective against body armor, although they still seriously damaged the dummies wearing it. Tests against samples of alien armor proved that they have issues penetrating that aswell.
Reloading of the weapons is tricky for humans.
Figure out how to get locks on enemy UFOs (do they emit heat? do they have good radio profiles? how hard would it be to just point a laser designator at them? Can we mathematically predict the likeliest point they'll end up? You're the geeks, bring me a suggestion.)
2 computer geeks and 1 ballistics engineer and 5 general ones.
Going back over the gunsight video from the 'intersection' of the UFO (And footage from ground and air based radar systems), the UFO was near invisible to radar, the infrared profile was next to none, and that only observed when it fired a maneuvering thruster, and of the few missiles that did manage to get a lock it dodged. Indeed, the only missile that got close to hitting it was TV guided, and passed within six CM of the craft. The best bet to hitting them is to fill the area with flack, shells, or rockets, and a proposal has been made to the military to fit rocketpods such as used on the gunship helicopters onto the interceptors.
Two small production lines, with workers(1000PP each, takes a week to start production on new things)
One workshop with workers (six single projects)
30 general engineers
5 ballistics engineers
2 computer engineers
1 biochemist
2 doctors
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