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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 150
Message ID: 90
#90, RE: No Harrington-novel Tech. Deal.
Posted by Redneck on Oct-19-01 at 02:05 PM
In response to message #88

>>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?

The munitions listed in this topic are only -samples- of the vast variety of armaments available to UF services. There are all sorts of missiles and torpedoes which we haven't named because they are less common- and less likely to be used by the WDF or its allies- than those we did name.

Proton torpedoes are made -primarily- for sinking warships from starfighters, and represent a compromise between yield and on-board storage. A T-65-C's standard load of six torpedoes will sink a corvette or destroyer if said torpedoes are not intercepted; two X-Wings can combine their missile loads to drop a Star Destroyer's shields, with precise targeting.

Concussion missiles can also do damage to smaller warships, although the shields of a large ship- like a Star Destroyer, or even a heavy cruiser- can soak up the damage and regenerate with little or no loss of protection.

And there are so many other similar weapons from four hundred years of UF history used by other services- Zardon, Salusia, Kilrah, Romulus, etc. etc. etc. - that it just plain doesn't do to list them all here.

Redneck

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