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Ok! How many torpedo launchers dose the Defaint-class have? This is what the DS9 Technical Manual said. "Two torpedo launchers are embedded within the upper forward nacelle cowling" I'm not sure where this is. The MSD shows two aft and one fwd launcher in the nose of the ship. On the show, they fire from the targeting sensors, at lest thats what the technical manual said.
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Onscreen, there are two forward launchers that fire from those "targeting sensors" nad the ship is supposed to also havetwo aft launchers (mentioned riefly in WOTW and elsewhere), so despite the off MSD, I'd say it has four.
Wes' MSD in DAC is much nicer anyway.
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There should be two aft-facing in about the same positions: that pic of the Defiant firing on the Lakota does not make too much sense to me.
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I believe the Defiant has also launched a probe from the same forward emplacement that the phasers are shown firing from just below the deflector. Not the first time a ship has fired phasers from a probe launcher.
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To be precise, I belive the launchers above those targeting sensor blister thingies only fire Q-torps. IIRC Pho-torps have only ever been seen emerging from the aft/ventral area as shown above. Not counting the forward probe launcher on the nose, I don't remember if that was ever seen to launch a warhead.
In regards to the position of the "aft" launchers, is there a rule that says that pho-torps can't be drop launched? I mean the do have their own propultion do they not? Ok the lack of an EM rail does reduce their reletive velocity and effective range, but it's good enough for the kind of close quarters engagement that we've witnessed with the Lakota, Mirror Neg'Var and the huge Jem'Hadar Battleship.
On a side note, isn't that also where we saw the self-replicating mines being deployed from?
quote:Originally posted by Reverend: In regards to the position of the "aft" launchers, is there a rule that says that pho-torps can't be drop launched?
The Centaur "drop laiunched" it's Q-Torp, so it's possible. I just figured the aft launchers were those two red dots at the ship's aft (though those could also be the impulse echaust).
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I always assumed those were indeed Impulse engines, regardless of the MSD. That aft structure which the tech manual claims to be the location of the impulse engines looks much more like a set of docking umbilical and connection hard points.
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