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22. "RE: BPGD: CVS-101"
In response to message #18
 
   >With quite a lot of structural jiggery-pokery, it would be possible to
>mount a phase-transit cannon, but experience with Omega-equipped
>carriers (such as Concordia) has shown fairly conclusively that
>the disruption to flight deck operations involved in maneuvering to
>fire such a weapon for effect isn't worth the trouble. It's much
>simpler and more tactically flexible to just add a separate
>Omega-equipped vessel to the carrier battle group (an
>Argo-class heavy cruiser, for instance). Or bring along some
>Reflex torpedoes, if you absolutely must haul around the
>capacity to destroy a small moon in one go aboard the carrier herself.
>
>Anyway, hang as many weapons as you want on her superstructure, a
>carrier's hardest-hitting, longest-reaching fist is always going to be
>her air wing. Those three Judicator squadrons and one Astrofortress
>squadron may take slightly longer to destroy an enemy ship than a
>blast from a wave motion gun, but it'll be just as dead when they're
>through, and they don't leave the ship all but dead in space while
>they're gone.
>

I was thinking more along the lines of an anti-ship weapon in the unlikely occurance of a ship decloaking / emerging from metaspace/hyperspace / defolding while the air wing is deployed. I realize there would at least be a CAP, but in a strike like those that occured (and will likely occur again) in Infamy, there are times when a carrier is stripped to bare bones.

Truth be told, I was thinking something more along the lines of a hold-out blaster sort of weapon, only anti-ship grade. Something to make an attacking ship think twice while the air wing is out doing its job.

-D-

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 BPGD: CVS-101 [View All] Gryphonadmin Sep-02-08 TOP
   RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Senji Sep-02-08 1
      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Droken Sep-02-08 3
          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Rickdominated Sep-02-08 4
              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-02-08 5
   RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Polychrome Sep-02-08 2
      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-02-08 6
          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Polychrome Sep-02-08 7
   RE: BPGD: CVS-101 TheOtherSean Sep-02-08 8
   RE: BPGD: CVS-101 trigger Sep-02-08 9
      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Polychrome Sep-03-08 10
          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-03-08 11
              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 BlackAeronaut Sep-03-08 12
                  RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Mephronmoderator Sep-03-08 13
                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Star Ranger4 Sep-03-08 14
                  RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-03-08 15
                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 BLUE Sep-03-08 17
                          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-03-08 18
                             RE: BPGD: CVS-101 BLUE Sep-04-08 22
                                  RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-04-08 23
                                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Pasha Sep-05-08 27
                  RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Peter Eng Sep-03-08 16
                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 zojojojo Sep-03-08 19
                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Star Ranger4 Sep-04-08 25
   RE: BPGD: CVS-101 MOGSY Sep-04-08 20
      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-04-08 21
          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Star Ranger4 Sep-04-08 24
              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-04-08 26
              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 BLUE Sep-05-08 28
                  RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Star Ranger4 Sep-05-08 29
                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Berrik Sep-06-08 30
                          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-06-08 31
                              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 MOGSY Sep-07-08 32
                                  RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Star Ranger4 Sep-07-08 33
                                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 MOGSY Sep-07-08 35
                                          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Star Ranger4 Sep-07-08 37
                                              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-07-08 38
                                              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Wedge Sep-08-08 40
                                          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Peter Eng Sep-09-08 44
                                              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Star Ranger4 Sep-09-08 45
                                  RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Gryphonadmin Sep-07-08 36
                                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 TheOtherSean Sep-07-08 39
                                          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 MOGSY Sep-08-08 42
                                      RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Offsides Sep-08-08 41
                                          RE: BPGD: CVS-101 MOGSY Sep-08-08 43
                              RE: BPGD: CVS-101 Berrik Sep-07-08 34


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