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| White Haven's double-transit to Basilisk | Jun 2005 |
| Shipkiller missile evasive maneuvers | Jun 2005 |
| FTL fire control | Jun 2005 |
| Fire control uplink flexibility | Dec 2004 |
| Construction time for the first-flight <em>Harringtons</em> | Dec 2004 |
| Erewhon's 'betrayal' of the Manticoran Alliance | Dec 2004 |
| Fleet strengths as of 1905 PD | Dec 2004 |
| Shipbuilding times | Dec 2004 |
| Fleet strengths as of 1920 PD | Dec 2004 |
| Effective intercept range for counter-missiles | Dec 2004 |
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Pearls of Weber
A collection of posts by David Weber containing background information for his stories, collected and generously made available Joe Buckley.
Hardening shipkiller missile drives
- Series: Honorverse
- Date: June 10, 2005
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.
