>>And yes, Webber does come up with the equivalent of fighters later on
>>in the series. You'll see them make an apperance starting with "Honor
>>Amoung Enemies".
>
>Of course, in that universe, "fighter" status means that it only
>outweighs the average seagoing battleship... Yes, I'm exaggerrating,
>but when a ship to ship missile is quoted at 50 tons, and all comers
>are fielding ~2.5 mile slabs of self propelled armor, well...
>
>Y'know, it occurs to me that the Shrikes actually kinda match the WDF
>design philosophy. Fast, tough, and built around a single big@$$ gun.

Well, the LACs are more like the equivalent of heavy/stealth bombers, or maybe torpedo-bombers, than fighters (I don't think you could dogfight in them, given they don't have reactionless drives).

And the techs have the same approach as the WDF: as soon as they get a new toy they have to start playing with it, such as the addition of the rear sidewall generator OUTSIDE the hull (because there's no armor on the hull ANYWAY, so what does it matter?

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So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'