Title | Posted |
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Drive field requirement for warp transit | Oct 2002 |
Warp point denial I | Oct 2002 |
Warp point denial II | Oct 2002 |
<em>The Great Vanishing Crucian Mystery</em> | Oct 2002 |
The Terran Federation - partial (high resolution - 157KB) | Oct 2002 |
ISW 4: The Arachnid War (1) (low resolution - 27KB) | Oct 2002 |
Mother's recall of surviving Battle Fleet units | Oct 2002 |
Upgrading <em>Dahak </em>to a hyperdrive | Oct 2002 |
Honor Harrington series timeline | Oct 2002 |
A collection of posts by David Weber containing background information for his stories, collected and generously made available Joe Buckley.
A suggestion has been made that it would make sense to put drives into shipkiller missiles of sufficient power to make them immune to wedge kill by a counter-missile. Is this practical? Could it be done as the final stage of a MDM?
No, it isn't. And it won't be -- ever. I believe we've had this discussion before. You cannot -- not "it would be hard," not "only possible with great difficulty," but cannot -- build a missile drive sufficiently powerful to take out another missile (or counter-missile) drive without being taken out itself. End of story. The physical size constraints make it impossible. That's why counter-missiles have used their impeller wedges as their primary missile-killing weapon for so long.