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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I'm all for "quick change" type multi-munition launchers, with the added complication that "quick" is a relative term. Aboard a small ship like NX-74205, it may not make sense to carry along all the modules needed to change a launcher's configuration. Nor may the small engineering crew have the time to perform the operation in practice. So instead, the ship is pre-configured for the mission back at DS9, where there is time and space and manpower. Launchers X and Y are configured for q-torps, launcher Z for p-torps, and a few probes are also loaded into the magazine of launcher Y. For the next mission, all launchers might carry p-torps. Aboard a large ship, "quick swapping" is quicker. But a large ship need not *have* the capacity for quick swapping, since it can carry a larger number and thus a larger selection of fixed-configuration launchers to begin with. Thus, each launcher can be optimized for a certain type of munitions, thus avoiding the inevitable compromises of a multi-munition device. So the E-E *could* have a q-torp-only turret and p-torp-only paired tubes, if the drama so requires. Or she could have multi-munition weapons all over. There's plenty of engineering logic for both alternatives. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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