SWM wrote:wastedfly wrote:PS. PDLC's are not Shotguns. Holy cow. Moving 0.0000001 degree is as hard as "moving 20 degrees. These are not swivel mount. The lens is electrically driven.
You're right. I forgot that tidbit, but found confirmation in the Pearls. I don't think it is quite correct to say that 0.0000001 degree is as hard as 20 degrees, but the Pearls do imply that it can be moved fast enough that it doesn't matter.
Personally, I am with SVW on how the PDLC's SHOULD work. Why bother having so many emitters? Salvos come in in waves, not in a stream. If you cannot fire all ~14 or 16 emitters at a single salvo, what is the point? May as well throw most of the emitters away and save yourself the tonnage. Rather increase the tonnage in capacitors, so the PDLC's and their respective emitters you do have can all be fired.
Still even if PDLC work this way this in no way means attacking from multiple vectors is somehow a good move. Allowing even more PDLC's to fire at your missiles violates Divide and Conquer.