Making EM Guns Viable in Space Combat (3e)

[Polydamas]

Originally Posted by GURPS Fox

I still consider them missiles, just with a KE warhead instead.

Well, like, how are you defining kinetic energy weapons? You talked about railgun projectiles with terminal guidance (some kind of engine to change their vector as they approach the target and way of aiming at that target) in which case the projectiles are missiles (although there is definitely a difference between a gun-launched missile and a missile which gets all its velocity from an onboard engine).

You also talked about range, and in space the range of a projectile is "until it hits something" so maybe this term means something different to you.