>No starfighter can stand up to a naval phaser. I'm not sure how well
>phasers can track little buggers, though. If they track well, this
>explains why we don't see fightercraft in Star Trek.

There is fightercraft in Star Trek, its...well, they've only turned up in DS9 in two classes: medium(short range warp capability, needs support carriers: Akira-class) and derivatives of the vessel the Maquis had at the start of Voyager.

Naval phaser tracking abillity, eh? Isn't that dependant on the computer power avaliable for interpeting the sensors and whatnot? Not to mention the operator reaction time.

>As far as the Alpha goes, you're right; those munitions are
>pipsqueak by aircraft standards. If the Alpha could carry fewer,
>bigger munitions, however, it could do damage. After all, we build
>aircraft munitions today that make US naval jets more than capable of
>sinking ships.

UF: Photon torps, Anti-Christ, Drum bomb.
Here: Harpoon, Penguin, Tomahawk, Exocet. Maverick? Paveway equiped bombs?

So, how about a Drum bomb with some form of propulsion attached to it. It might however need an Alpha setup like a B1 or a resurrection of the Thundergod to use them.

--Rod.H
"Something far worse than the Shadows: reporters."- Sheridan. B5