Not For Kitchen Use

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@Jade Nekotenshi <nekotenshi0@gmail.com> on 2017-03-14 07:48:26 wrote

I wonder if it’s possible to use the laser grid to do last-minute adjustments of outgoing mass driver slugs - you know, in case a target jinks and you realize that a split second after firing?

@awarnock <salsa.the.geek@gmail.com> on 2017-03-14 09:43:20 wrote

Probably. It would make sense given how it protects the ships from incoming KEWs

@Ru <shearwater@gmail.com> on 2017-03-14 16:29:23 wrote

Given the ranges involved, ablating bits of the outgoing round would probably cause a rather large and hard-to-judge deflection by the time it reached the target.

Also, you probably want your projectiles to be long and thin*, and that’s a non-ideal shape to apply lateral force to.

because at hypervelocity-but-subrelativistic speeds, you probably won’t be penetrating much more armor than the length of your projectile.