>>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?
>

Not really. All in all, the LAC's really are more like fighters, in and of even with their capabilities, they still must put nose on target to some extent. Rather, what I see right now is that the ShrikeB class LAC's are rather more like putting an F-22 up against a P-51 mustang.

Recall that WAAY back in Basilisk, Cardones was playing a sim where it was a destroyer on destroyer duel... and both were whipping around like crazy to get firing angles. Ergo, a LAC vs LAC engagement would be much the same.

Its just that until the new compensators and the Greyson Fission piles, it wasn't really feasable, etc... I have a feeling that if Webber decided to let Theisman have equivalent LAC's in a future book, you'd see more 'dogfighting'...

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