BC 304 Size Breakdown Stargate 

Subscribed because you went above and beyond to actually set the size of the Daedalus to its actual size on the show.

Stargate now got access to and posted images and sizes of the studio models. They list the size as 732 Meters Length 367 Meters Width and 135 Meters Height. Apparently the magazine didn't Use the screen model and instead just made up their own numbers

Wow, your explanation and proof of finding the real dimensions of the BC-304 is spot on. Hope helps when you start on the Wraith and Ori warships in the future.

I recently found your channel with your video on the Destiny. This has been a really great video too. I said something similar before, I love injecting some thought and reality into things without becoming bogged down by geekish details that in the end mean almost nothing. Viewing them from a very grounded and practical perspective make them feel more real.

Great video! This size feels right to me. You could also scale the Wraith Hive off this too, from that episode when it fit inside the central gap in the Hive.

yes i have seen 700 meter to 900 meter long bc 304 i agree this is the right scale to use

I am going to build this ship in a sandbox game called Starbase. Thank you for this video! And yes the 200 meter version is just not realistic. Your measurements make sense.

The lengthhas been pretty well established by fleetyards. 685m without take ng thebsensor array into account, so its just iver 700m incuding the mast.

Very well explained

So how big was the Prometheus (X/BC-303)? It was definitely smaller than the BC-304, but it was also designed to carry and launch a complement of up to 8 F-302s, which means that its given length of 195m makes no sense. Just taking the 195m length, then multiplying it to match your scale for the BC-304 gives a length of about 630m for the Prometheus, but I'm unsure if this actually makes sense given what we were shown on-screen. Also, how big must a Ha'tak be, then? Because they were always portrayed as significantly larger than a 304, but the official figure is 700, long, which would make them smaller in at least one key dimension than a 304, which doesn't make visual sense when we look at what the show gave us.

So the ship should be able to hold THOUSANDS of personnel but can be piloted by 1-3. That's crazy impressive. I also like the thought that they could make some Avengers style flying carriers as a pseudo planetside Battleship.

Excellent. I still want to see 1701 in comparison.

I think it’s just 10 meters long and all people and gear (including the 302s) automatically shrinks down to fit. That way enemies have a harder time hitting it in space. Sound good? 😁

The Stargate Magazine had it as 225 metres, the Stargate Wikipedia also had 225 metres , ( almost all sources had it at this size) Trekyards got the original CGI model it was almost the same size as a sovereign class starship at 685 meter (700 ish with the from antenna) it was also stated somewhere I forgot where, that the size change in certain episodes , (also sometimes perspective gave a false size on screen)

It seems strange to me that for all its size, the 304 could only hold 16 F-302s. I would think that they could hold more The 304s had elevators/lifts, but do you think they had some kind of subway like train system to shuttle to carry crew along the length of the ship? I've seen some sci-fi series ships with them, notably, the Excaliber from the Babylon 5 series

225 meters definitely feels too small for a length of a ship like this. If you compare it to other ships in sci-fi, when you realise that the Enterprise D is around 641 meters long, the battlestar galactica (which is a fairly large beast) is 1438m long, then it feels unrealistic for the BC-304 to only be 225 meters long, especially when it goes for a hanger pod design like the galactica. Somewhere between about 500m and 1km feel more right, and putting the fighter to scale on the image does show that it really should be in that 600 to 800m range. I do get what they're going for by saying it's only 225, but you really do need to take fighter size and hangers into account when designing a carrier ship, and being a carrier for such large fighters, needs a big ship.

Thank you for this video, it's very helpfull and now i can be sure that 720+ meters is good size.

Will you do one about the prometheus and destiny

The only problem i have with it being scaled properly to the F-302 is the crew size. Dont the BC-304's have a crew in the low hundreds?

It’s a problem with the whole show the ship sizes being wrong

This could give us the size of Atlantis

The 700+ metre length seems more realistic.

I hate videos that argue the BC-304 is so massive, because they all (yours included) use the F-302 as their yardstick. But your figures for the fighter are verifiably wrong. Because unlike with the 304, the 302 has been shown carrying not one, but two real-world objects that have known sizes. The first is their missiles, the AIM-120, which are 12 feet (3.65 meters) long. The second is the Stargate itself, which did have a full-sized physical prop that was 6.7 meters in diameter (outer edge to outer edge). And when you use those objects OF KNOWN LENGTH as your yardsticks, then the 'official' figures for the size of the 302 having a 26-meter wingspan is too big. By my reckoning, those figures need to be reduced by about 1/3. Now I'm not arguing that the 225-meter length for the 304 is correct when you revise things, just that your calculations are based on a clearly flawed starting point. But there's another underlying issue with the whole 302/304 scaling issue that videos like yours completely ignore. And that is, to my understanding, the 'official' size figures for both ships came from the same source. They clearly don't mesh with each other, but videos like this automatically assume that the figures for the 304 are wrong, yet those for the 302 are somehow right. If they have the same source, and that source is clearly incorrect, then why do you use them at all, instead of making an honest effort to come up with an accurate yardstick? SG1 provides sufficient visual evidence to determine the size of the 302 without having to rely on the suspect 'official' figures, so why doesn't anyone do that?

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So this size makes it almost the size of Destiny.

How many decks?

This is off by alot. I put the images in AutoCAD. @1:43 the Screen shot is from Stargate Atlantis Season 2 Episode: Intruder. In the shot the wings are just as wide as the runway lights while @1:46 you scaled them smaller. precision matters at this size The appropriate scale between the two images you present is 465 meters. (No more)

Day-da-less!!! Everyone gets the name pronouciation wrong

There is no right answer.Either the size of 302 is wrong or the 304 size is wrong.Remember the Ori supergate,well that had a diameter of 400 meters.How much bigger was the Ori mothership? 3-4 times that of the 304.I think they later increased the size of the Ori mother ship 1000m x 800m but still in show they said 400m for the supergate.No right answer.