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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6273878" data-attributes="member: 22779">In other words, make REALLY big bombs.&nbsp; That would work.One scene that always bugged me from BSG was when they showed a machine shop making cased rounds for Vipers.&nbsp; I know, it's SF and we're not supposed to get too wigged out by that sort of thing, but, jeez.&nbsp; There's no way you could accelerate a round fast enough to be effective in space based combat with a cased round.&nbsp; Anything powerful enough to make the round go fast enough would disintegrate the round itself.&nbsp; Anything slower would mean that the rounds would never be able to hit anything beyond a kilometre or so since you couldn't lead the target enough.It always bugs me when SF shows, set in some future technology time, use technology that isn't even to todays standards, let alone centuries ahead of us.&nbsp; We already have electric guns and rail guns and x-ray lasers.&nbsp; Why on earth would I use dumb 25 mm rounds?&nbsp; (dumb as in no guidance system, not dumb as in stupid)I mean, even today, in modern dogfights between aircraft, it's almost never going to come down to guns.&nbsp; It's going to be missile fire most of the time with guns primarily used against slow moving ground targets.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6273878, member: 22779"] In other words, make REALLY big bombs. That would work. One scene that always bugged me from BSG was when they showed a machine shop making cased rounds for Vipers. I know, it's SF and we're not supposed to get too wigged out by that sort of thing, but, jeez. There's no way you could accelerate a round fast enough to be effective in space based combat with a cased round. Anything powerful enough to make the round go fast enough would disintegrate the round itself. Anything slower would mean that the rounds would never be able to hit anything beyond a kilometre or so since you couldn't lead the target enough. It always bugs me when SF shows, set in some future technology time, use technology that isn't even to todays standards, let alone centuries ahead of us. We already have electric guns and rail guns and x-ray lasers. Why on earth would I use dumb 25 mm rounds? (dumb as in no guidance system, not dumb as in stupid) I mean, even today, in modern dogfights between aircraft, it's almost never going to come down to guns. It's going to be missile fire most of the time with guns primarily used against slow moving ground targets. [/QUOTE]

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