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He threw the ship into a ‘dive,’ screaming for countermeasures, point-defense weapons, and a counter-barrage.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » JM’s Review Forum 2009
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He threw the ship into a ‘dive,’ screaming for countermeasures, point-defense weapons, and a counter-barrage.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge! 2009
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They pose no threat, as we are at a sufficient distance that the point-defense weapons are capable of destroying them well before the missiles close to dangerous distances.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » JM’s Review Forum 2009
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Unknown, our first shots were destroyed by their point-defense guns.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » JM’s Review Forum 2009
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Unknown, our first shots were destroyed by their point-defense guns.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge! 2009
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Their point-defense weapons were firing on visual cues only, with the majority of the aft-facing sensor packages now nothing more than molten plastic and metal.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » JM’s Review Forum 2009
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Lasers are only used by point-defense systems, and so evasive action and staying more than a few light seconds or minutes from the enemy makes them ineffective.
07.24.2004 patternjuggler 2004
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Lasers are only used by point-defense systems, and so evasive action and staying more than a few light seconds or minutes from the enemy makes them ineffective.
Archive 2004-07-24 patternjuggler 2004
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Lasers are only used by point-defense systems, and so evasive action and staying more than a few light seconds or minutes from the enemy makes them ineffective.
Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams patternjuggler 2004
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Like Patriot, though, Standard was really a point-defense weapon with damned little cross-range ability to cover an area instead of maybe twenty square miles of important sea-estate.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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