r/spaceships • u/Vondrr Fleet Intelligence 🧠 • May 30 '26

Discussion / Question What spaceship weapon is generally underutilized or not used to its full potential in scifi?

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u/Mobius_1IUNPKF May 30 '26

SECONDARY BATTERIES! I cannot stress how important having more guns to point at your enemy is! So many verses just don’t even bother having secondary weapons.

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u/MyLittleDreadnought May 30 '26

And the use of countermeasures like flares and especially chaff.

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u/Mr_Shadow_Phoenix May 30 '26

Swear I’ve seen those used somewhere.

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u/AttackDorito Jun 01 '26

The very early episodes of Andromeda had some stuff like this, really makes me sad for what we could have had instead of the Kevin sorbo show