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andbruu · 01-09-2009, 04:44 PM

There are only massdrivers and propelled warheads (torpedoes, missiles, rockets etc). The shot from a massdriver may be to slow to be accurate on long distances. Targeting systems on ships may have an easy time to lock-on on an approaching torpedo fired 100k miles away.
Fighters bring the weapons close to the enemy - like setting your gun against the barn.

01-09-2009, 04:44 PM	#7
andbruu Join Date: Sep 2004	Re: [Spaceships] Under what tech assumptions Space Fighters make sense? There are only massdrivers and propelled warheads (torpedoes, missiles, rockets etc). The shot from a massdriver may be to slow to be accurate on long distances. Targeting systems on ships may have an easy time to lock-on on an approaching torpedo fired 100k miles away. Fighters bring the weapons close to the enemy - like setting your gun against the barn.