|
Post by dpidz0r on Nov 9, 2016 3:41:43 GMT
do you think nuclear missiles with a laser on top would work? In a book I read, completely forgot the name, there were missiles that had gamma lasers on top. Although, they also did use antimatter propulsion. The Honor Harrington series and Footfall both had bomb pumped lasers, though no antimatter propulsion. The Honorverse ones were on missiles that attempted to fly past the target and then detonate the laser head as soon as it has a clear shot (iirc they were also heavily programmable in that they could fly a huge subset of attack profiles to circumvent shields/armor/point defense/ECM). Footfall was harder scifi and had an orion drive ship that dumped some kind of expendable device out the back. The device would keep pointed at a target until vaporized by the next propulsion bomb. The process of being vaporized generated a very focused xray beam in whatever direction it was pointed, which basically meant the ship was keeping up a constant barrage of laser fire whenever it was maneuvering. It was probably based on project excalibur: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excalibur
|
|