Category:Point Defense

Point Defense refers to a variety of light weapon systems used for the purpose of targeting and destroying missiles, strike craft, or anything else that should pose a collision risk. There is a variety of point defense weaponry available, most of which can be summed up as "Kinetic" or "Energy" PD systems.

Kinetic weapons typically function significantly better at relatively closer ranges than when firing on incredibly distant objects due to round travel time, which is exacerbated by the fact that kinetic PD uses chemical ballistics in order to maintain a high fire rate along without a complete sacrifice to muzzle velocity as some smaller gauss weapons would cause.

[Energy PD]

Shipboard kinetic weapons of 1 to 3 DP are capable of also serving in a dual purpose role to destroy strike craft and missiles alongside their primary role as ship-to-ship guns. While typically they would be employed for the former role, extremely heavily armored missiles tend to require more firepower than can be provided by regular point-defense in order to destroy them.