[quote=@Willy Vereb]
On dragons, I really don't mind them. We alread have air dreadnoughts and strike witches that are more fantastical than a big flying creature on wings.
As for dragon scales them being light more durable than mithril can make sense since they need to be light yet well-protected.
Say, they include carbon-nanotubes or other materials which theoretically can be produced with mostly natural means yet they are both light and tough.Similarly it's obvious why you can't just melt the scales into an armor, albeit high heat resistance would require something other than CNT, at least for something better than steel. Perhaps it's a composite? Again, it could make sense.
Rather than the durability of the scale the concern is because they're too thin. Also because dragons need to get close in order to breathe fire on their foes.
As such it was possible to lure in a dragon and then finish it off with ballistae and other such methods. Dragons were a massive threat but it wouldn't work if they could stomp the rest of the world before gunpowder, even.
Thankfully ballistae actually have quite decent penetration, can punch through 30mm steel. Compare this with what we have on our ww2 tanks and it isn't bad at all.
So dragons can be awesome while the world still had a way to deal with them.
Although I don't think armoring airships with dragon scales is a good idea. Their set thickness means you're bound to have inferior amount compared to what the various air warships do have. And at massive cost, since it comes from your limited dragon population.
Their use as personal armor is more justified. Same with tanks or perhaps airplanes.

Albeit it makes me wonder, wouldn't the dragons be suspicious about the DTF? I mean I bet others tried to ue their extracts as our version of the "Greek Fire" so why don't they get the same vibes if somebody suddenly comes up with a "miraculous formula" as super propellant?
Also I feel if it comes from the dragons you won't be able to extract that much on the overall scale. You'd need tens of thousands of tons per year to make a big difference. So DFT would be a very rare strategic resource for you in comparison which I suppose you'd only use in the direst situations in the most over-engineered designs.
<Snipped quote by Voltus_Ventus>Yeah, the non-volatile part didn't make sense to me, either.
If it has twice the energy content then by layman's terms it produces twice as much boom when burned.
Or does it mean it has a massive starting temperature? Can kinda make sense but then it's questionable how the dragons could breathe fire. I mean producing hundreds of degrees in temperature is anything but healthy within your bod.
But well, same could be said about biological flamethrowers so whatever.



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I wonder what happen if you combine the 15m jet engine thingy with this new fuel...
>Evilly laughs evilly