Community forms: Feedback on the current state of missiles

[Thunderer]

In an age where laser weapons exist and in an environment where their beams are not diffracted by an atmosphere, long range, single fire missiles make no sense. They will easily be shot down before they reach the target because they travel for a long time and they are single. In this case, missiles only make sense as close range, fighter weapons, that will come dangerously close to their target before the defence systems are able to detect it, activate and get a lock. I see two possible solutions: either fire a lot of missiles at once, and this is indeed the strategy of modern navies and modern ICBMs that contain multiple ballistic projectiles, to thus overload the enemy's countermeasure capabilities, or implement the same technology that allows spaceships to go at near-light speed, to missiles, so they will be no slower than other weapons.

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