Yes, and many companies are doing just that and earning money with it. Some even supply your company. This is a ship designer quest not an equipment designer quest. We won't go into that much detail at any point, not even if you should design a ship like the Lancer-class of the Empire.
Ahh righto, was thinking of those enhanced turret batteries and the fancy bridge we set up and forgot they were less specific designs and more the result of the actual ship designing process. So if we wanted to set up better AA we would just focus on setting up room to put more AA in aswell as buying the best turrets we can.
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Laser cannons are already more than enough for anti-fighter role as that is what has been working for centuries and millenniums. And no the blasters aren't using Tibana gas as that stuff is stupidly expensive and rare. There are hundreds of other blaster gasses that work just fine already. Also like I said blaster tech is not a plasma weapon. The bolt is not plasma nor is it the gas being fired. The bolt is a particle beam that has the energy from the gas added to make it stronger. Blasters are particle beam weapons.
There is no need because the stuff that already exist is more than good enough. Missiles are a niche function weapon and would be better used as anti capital weaponry. Anti fighter missiles already exist as well since that is what fighters carry. It would also be a waste of space for limited effectiveness as they would run out of ammo much faster than anything else be they energy or kinetics.
The entire wing is a heat sink. Putting any kind of Missile on it will not go well and more importantly it reduces the ability of the X-Wing to do so even if they didn't just explode when they heated up.
The TIE is a death trap when the pilot is an idiot and the commanders misuse them. And yes the Empire did in fact have the elite pilots needed for using TIEs. Remember the best pilots the rebels have were Imperial detectors. The A-Wing is a death trap for the shitty trained pilots of the Rebels. There is a reason that the Rebels only gave them to their very best pilots and it wasn't just because they were expensive they only cost 25,000 more than an X-Wing. It was because they knew it wasn't a good fighters for mainline service in their situation. And the X-Wing is not that much more survivable it would still get destroyed by a decent length volley from even a TIE and a Interceptor would pop them in a salvo or two of their laser cannons.
Anti-Ship missiles are the assault variants of them. Normal missiles can do damage but they are more used for taking out other fighters.
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Do you think that is bad? In the german translation, I read when I grew up they didn't translate squadron and wing properly. Sometimes they basically translated Rouge Squadron wrong and then it became Rouge Wing. Or a Stardestroyer has a whole Squadron of TIE's onboard *gasp*.
I'm not sure what you're going at but Ship-To-Ship combat in Star Wars draws partly from WW1 and WW2 with a nice bit of Age-of-Sail barrage fire. The existing target computers are doing their job, you know. They don't aim over the barrel and with the thump or something like that. Standard tactics insure that the maximum batteries/turrets are aimed at the enemy ship.
I also think it's better that the bridge is in the ship or at least close to the ship and is not so clearly visible. But what is a problem when the bridge is in the ship and not 'on' the ship that when the ship is hit with ion weapons then you can see nothing at all what is going on outside. If you have a 'window' you can at least look out.
Yes, at least larger warships like the Executor-class as an emergency or secondary bridge that is fully crewed doing combat.
Again, weapons being called 'lasers' in Star Wars is a misnomer. The weapons that shoot out bolts of light aren't lasers, they don't move at the speed of light. They're particle cannons. And if a targeting computer that could flawlessly hit a fightercraft regardless of how skilled the pilot is could ever exist, it will not have been made by us.
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Lasers are useless because they stopped being developed thousands of years ago. They got countered hard and they stopped working on them and switched to kinetic weapons and then later on to blaster tech. Lasers are one of the very first weapons made so if you want to make one that is usable at all you are going to need to develop nearly 10,000 years of advancements to do so. All lasers are used for now is sensors and other secondary functions like that.
...So in other words they would be completely useless as a weapon. Well, guess that makes my idea completely irrelevant...
There was the beam weapons on the sides of the LAAT, though.
Those weren't lasers either; those were particle beam weapons, as opposed to the more common particle bolt cannons that most blaster tech operates on the principles of.
