Archives
| Title | Posted |
|---|---|
| The missing figures from the Honorverse CD-release of <em>More Than Honor</em>. | May 2009 |
| Reportage of Honor's 'trial' by the Committee of Public Safety | May 2009 |
| Church communications | May 2009 |
| Operation Ark's mission plan | May 2009 |
| PICAs and military manpower needs | May 2009 |
| Safeholdian ship design | May 2009 |
| Erewhon and the inertial compensator | May 2009 |
| Detection of upward hyper translations | May 2009 |
| c-Fractional pod-based missile attack plan II | May 2009 |
| Do you plan ahead for which characters die? | Jun 2009 |
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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.
Missile orientation during flight
- Series: Honorverse
- Date: October 22, 2002
Missiles in the Harrington universe are virtually all seeking weapons. Their sensor heads are required to maintain lock on their targets (at least once they are beyond effective, real-time telemetry control from the ship which launched them). This means that they keep the throats of their wedges oriented on their targets, which is why it is possible for point defense lasers to kill them at extended ranges. There is no sidewall or wedge protecting them from the fire or the ship they are attacking; their wedges do, however, protect them from the defensive fire of other ships which might attempt to engage them from "above" or "below."
