Maldorian wrote:What else than a Container that contains missles is a missle pod? It is exactly that!
So, what else can you put in these pods?
1.) Countermissles or anti missles, you know what i mean! I don´t know how big an anti missle is, but it is much smaller than a attack missle. What is, if you cut the missle pod into different Levels with the high of the anti missles? Don´t know hom many Levels you can create, depends of the hight of the anti missles. Fill every Level with anti missles, throw them out, disintegrate them (use explosive bolts to cut the Connection between the Levels of the pod) and fire the anti missles on incomming missles. Such a anti missle pod Level should be light enough, that a LAC can take one like a big ship some of the big pods to upgrade the defense of the LAC.
Well, we'd've hoped the pearl titled "Counter-missile pods and two-stage counter-missiles" -
http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... gton/163/1 - would have dealt with counter-missile pods, but alas, it fell out of the discussion but not the title. Otherwise - I'm sure you could build a CM pod and stuff it with CM's, but the limitation on CM's is much more guidance than how many you can fling out. Guidance is limited by facing surface area for control links and inside hardware support.
I do wonder if pod-layers could lose CM launchers and use the surface and volume for more CM links, combined with some CM pods. However, even if that would improve CM capability while in perfect condition, you'd lose lots of CM capability if you could not roll CM pods and that's terrifying.
As often, if you can reduce or eliminate the CM's need for hand-holding, things are much better and much different.
2.) Engines and a remote control System! Turns the pod into a drohne! My guess would be, fill the pod with Laser Cluster ond/or anti missles and use these drohnes as a additional missle defense line outside the range of your own ship defense.
At that point, it's not going to be small, at all. How big, how capable, we've yet to see. For one authoritative word on that, see
http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... gton/137/13.) Remember the assasination of the prime Minister at grayson? Add a cloaking device and a lot of laser Warheads and use it a kind of long range missle.
Mistletoe is much like that. It's not a missile pod variant, it's a drone, but then, that's still the sort of thing you're describing here. Mistletoe is unlikely to get close enough safe enough and undetected to do a thing to a mobile unit, or even a decently defended and anxiously aware one with good sensors. And as a drone, it's too large to be fired in numbers comparable to missiles.
The Cromarty Assassination relied on a homing device aboard the target. StateSec could arrange that there, with no small amount of effort, luck, and helpful treachery on Mueller's part, but that's not going to happen to warships.
