Loren Pechtel wrote:
Hey, that could actually be made to work reasonably well without killing the wyverns. Using a human guide is a big problem because they parachute onto the enemy fleet, but if you use a wyvern it's trained to fly up and away when a door opens (a propeller in the airflow, it unscrews something and the door springs open. You set how many turns until it pops based on the drop altitude.) The wyvern is going away from the blast rather than falling towards it, they can safely ride the bomb a lot lower than a human and thus will be a lot more accurate.
The question is, could wyvern be trained as a contrast seeker? I.e. to guide bomb toward any place that is different in color than surrounding, or it must be trained to the specific image? If latter, it would be impossible to use against not pre-determined immobile targets.
Loren Pechtel wrote:There's also no danger of a wyvern being captured and made to talk.
Well, if you use kamikaze method, there would be no danger of human pilot being captured too
Anyway, even with pilot ditching the bomb, for such missions only a "disposable" volunteers could be useful - i.e. they would not know much anyway.