Capital Ship Missiles

[Nadir]

In the series battlestars used a heavy barrage of flak to cover a sector of its surrounding with an unpenetrable barrrier of fire. No matter if it were missles or cylon raiders incoming. (btw, my mistake, those guns were KEWs - electro-magnetic launcers or simply railguns)

Well, if it's possible I would really love to see a sort of an anti-missle defence system on bigger ships. Small, damn manouverable rockets with a not very impressive payload.

Anti-ship missles...They'd be as agile as modern ballistic missles and have tremendeous range, firepower and blast radius.

As for flak...I was wondering, if making their shots explode at a set distance/ time after being shot would be possible. Regardless if they do or don't hit anything directly.

Most commonly flack means 'fragments'. A it seems you already know, flack guns have ammunition designed to burst and scatter to do damage to airplanes (while landing at about the same speed as rain so as not to kill people, which it occasionally did in WWII but mostly by complete bad luck on behalf of the person suck in the open in an air raid) and flack jackets are designed to absorb pieces of metal and debris (and small arms fire) in a war zone. If a modern anti-aircraft gun was placed in the FL universe, people would complain it was spamming!... even though that's the idea... Perhaps the turret has stolen some of the fame from missiles but it's a good weapon and well balanced (perhaps it needs renaming to Short Range Missiles ala Mechwarrior).

I believe one factor to successful missiles turrets is they should be slightly harder to dodge at extreme range than energy weapons but slightly easier at short range...

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