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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Transversely-firing weapons have their distinct advantages in situations where maneuvering alone isn't the answer ("Schr�ge Musik", anyone?). Aircraft-to-aircraft battles used to be very different when the vehicles had off-boresight weapons such as machine gun turrets or rocket cassettes, and moved more slowly. The high-speed equivalent, the off-boresight missile, has not yet reached maturity or seen combat use, but when it does, it *should* look much like "firing from the side". The missile would necessarily separate from the vehicle pointing forward, but would veer off *very* rapidly. And target-overflying bombers always "fire transversely", even though the initial release appears tangentical. While one may wonder why anybody would use target-overflying bombers in 2063, what we saw is just as representative of dropping retarded free-fall bombs as of "firing from the side". Except that these bombs glowed green, which is a funny thing for a bomb to do but by no means forbidden. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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