Re: Missiles and Submunition ideas

Perhaps I misunderstood you. Are you proposing a new re-loadable missile
ans
submunitions sytem? If so, you would need to make room on the firing
ship. One
turn to reload seems fair.

If you are talking about reloading from another ship, it does not seem
very
fair. To try to do anything, the 2 ships would need to be on a parallel
course
and at matched velocities. Otherwise it would be like a jet plane trying
to
rearm another while they made a head to head pass. Even with mid-air
refueling
(a much simpler task) the 2 planess must be on parallel courses and
matched
speed. And it takes much longer to reload a missile than to fire it. It
would
need to be removed from the supply ship, moved between the ships, and
placed
on a mounting pylon. This is assuming that the missiles are externally
fired
(rather than in a torpedo tube fassion) and all data links are within
the
firing pylon. 
Such a mount should be more susceptible to threshold checks and needle
attacks. If the situation is different, it would be more complicated
(hatches,
data wires, secure pins, arming pins, etc.).
-- 
Brian Bell
pdga6560@csi.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pdga6560/fthome.html