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Lunar Warfare - Lasers or Projectiles?

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  • u/SimoneNonvelodico:

    Well, but if you have a giant propulsion laser that's probably not going to have much in the way of quick, agile targeting - a solar sail is a target that *wants* to be hit. Couple that with the fact that the destructive potential is obvious, and the propulsion laser will probably be made to be slow to target *on purpose* as a safety measure, exactly for the same diplomatic reasons.
    
    In other words, it won't hit the side of a space barn if someone can just as much as push it away by huffing and puffing.
    

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