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[QUOTE]Originally posted by James Fox: [QB] Personally, I have no problems with the 15 launchers on the Akira. What people seem to forget is that there are different types of torpedo launchers. The Enterprise-D has burst tubes that can fire *10* torpedos at once. Old style torpedo tubes that we see on the Constitution-refit, or the Excelsor, seem to fire only one. We could say, therefore, that the Enterprise-D has the equivalent of 20 torpedo tubes. I would think (correct me if I'm wrong) that the tubes on the Akira can only fire a single torpedo at once. The difference between the two systems (Galaxy vs Akira) lies in thier functions. The Galaxy, as an explorer, would probably not be expected to wade into an enemy fleet, attacking right and left, but would rather be expected to encounter single enemy ships in the course of explorations. Therefore, it's armanment would be optimized to to eliminate a single target as fast as possible, thus resulting in burst fire tubes and a massive phaser array, all facing forward (since the ship is free to manuever to face it's target). I view the Akira as a battlefleet ship. During battle, it might spend quite a bit of time diving through an enemy fleet, with attackers firing on it fromm all directions. 'Shock attacks' like the Galaxy's would not eliminate all the threats, so the Akira is designed to attack multiple targets at the same time, with rapid-firing single-torpedo tubes to keep up a steady and punishing rate of fire in all directions. Many forward tubes would also be included since the ship would probably start firing at an enemy fleet well before the Akira would get 'into the thick of things'. As for sideways tubes and the like, I expect that making a torpedo manever radically just to get on a flight path towards the target is rather wasteful of time and energy, even if a torpedo can actually do that. James Fox [/QB][/QUOTE]
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