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[QUOTE]Originally posted by japol: [QB] Aircraft flying at transonic and supersonic speeds have little to no use for broadside shooting. The reaction time would have to be inhuman for anyone to hit anything. A bomber does essentially fire out of its flightpath as a rule. Off-boresite weapons exist in the form of laser and satellite guided missiles. Once they separate from the aircraft, they target independantly based on a laser reflected off of the target from the aircraft that fired it or a forward observer on the ground; or a set of GPS coordinates fed to the weapon via satellite. They are currently only useful in hitting stationary or slow-moving targets on the ground or at sea (laser-guided) or stationary ground targets (GPS). Against a high-speed target these weapons would be completely useless, however. This doesn't mean that the weapon we saw in First Contact couldn't be such a weapon. But I imagine they thought it was a high-yield particle weapon from an orbiting satellite. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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