Photon torpedo guidence

[Sarevok]

I was thinking the same thing. Fed ships are big so there is no reason can not have large torpedo tubes loaded with multiple torps.

[General Zod]

maybe. . . .though in the few shots we have seen the torps go into a special firing chamber before being launched, similar to submarine torpedoes. though i guess the speed at which they can fire depends on how quickly they can reload the torps, even if they do have multiple strings lined up. . . . .anyone have any estimates?

[Darth Wong]

The slow loading procedure and fast firing procedure suggests some kind of compound launcher, but it also suggests that the ships were not designed for a sustained engagement. After the initial salvo, their refire rate would drop off dramatically.

It's a bit like the old sailing-ship pirates who would walk around wearing a half-dozen pistols on them. They'd get off a half-dozen quick shots, and then they'd have to either reload or pull out the sabre.

[Vertigo1]

Then theres also the scene where the Enterprise fires practically everything it has at a borg cube in "Q-Who". Torpedoes were fired at a sustained rate of atleast two per second. Granted, those were individual torpedoes, not groups of them. They were also quite desperate to escape at that point as the Cube had just carved out a section of their hull.

[Jeremy]

last I heard cannon balls did not have a propulsion system in the cannon ball shells like a photon torpedo has. The given surname torpedo fits perfectly. Plus I don't think cannon balls exploded as much as they just were like big bullets, IIRC back in the day mortors were the exploding ordinance that everyone(especially hollywood)thinks of as cannon balls. Photon torpedoes have been stated to have a matter/anit-matter warhead.

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