Do the Project Insight Helicarriers have Arc Reactors powering their propulsion?
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Was watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier. When it's time for the Insight Helicarriers to launch, the camera pans out over them, and when it shows an above view of Helicarrrier 02, this is what it looked like; Then I went back to Iron Man 1, the scene where Stane was just blasted by the massive beam of energy from the Arc Reactor, and falls down into the building; And they look kinda similar. Fury mentions earlier in the movie that Stark had a hand in revamping the propulsion system of the Helicarriers. They're now fitted with giant repulsors instead of turbines. I'm pretty sure the main reason the Arc Reactor wasn't commercialized was originally because it wasn't cost-efficient to build one. And then, in Iron Man 1, Stark refused to commercialize the small versions because it would be far too easy for people to create incredible weapons with them. This doesn't necessarily mean he wouldn't build a few large Arc Reactors for SHIELD, though. It would cost more money than it's worth, but due to their size, they're safer than the reactors he uses for the Iron Man suits. SHIELD would probably have a hard time weaponizing these gargantuan things, and the structure of the tiny Arc Reactors is entirely different, so they wouldn't be able to reverse-engineer them solely based on studying the bigger reactors. So maybe Stark wouldn't have too many hangups about providing these to SHIELD, if they were able to convince him to. Alternatively, these could just be another type of nuclear reactor, because nuclear reactors in general seem to glow blue, as shown in this video. Not sure how safe it would be to have nuclear reactors exposed to the air like how they are on the Insight Helicarriers if they aren't Arc Reactors, but it's probably just some hand-wavey science. [link] [comments] |
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