JDAMs in the 27th century

[Shaggy]

Watching all the coverage of the war in Iraq, and how well our weapons have been working, got me to thinking.
Hypothetically, what type of weapons would Confed,or the Cats, use during an atmospheric bombing mission? JDAM, Joint Direct Attack Munitions, type weapons are satelite\GPS guided so they wouldn't be useful on a planet unless the satelites were already in place to guide them. Laser guided bombs would work alright, as long as there wasn't any bad weather or heavy haze to obscure the laser marker.
So what types of weapons do you think they would use, regularly? Would it be similar to what we have now, or possibly something new? Any ideas?
And how do you suppose they generate gravity on those ships?

 

[Lynx]

Originally posted by Shaggy

And how do you suppose they generate gravity on those ships?

Magic.

 

[Ijuin]

Well, we see the use of MMWARM's (Massively Multi-Warhead Anti-Radiation Missiles) in End Run--Bear fires a missile that breaks apart into FIFTY separate self-guided radar-seeking submunitions. I would also expect to see a variant of the ImRec missiles capable of locking on to ground-based targets such as buildings (the Tomahawk cruise missile does a similar thing--it has a 3D image of its target stored in its memory so that it can recognize its target). I expect that such direct-target-recognition weapons would have superceeded laser-guided or satellite-guided munitions.

As for how artificial gravity is generated in Wing Commander, it is known that the Jump Drive opens jump points by firing a burst of anti-gravitons at them. This implies that Confed has the technology to generate gravitons and anti-gravitons at will. As such, graviton generators in the decks would be adequate to generate artificial gravity within the confines of a ship.

 

[Delance]

The tech in WC is not really all that related with current tech. It's a future things that plans to be WW2 in space. On the atmospheric mission, is WW2 in space in the ground. The fighters will use missiles (tm), bombs (tm) and energy weapons (tm).

And how do you suppose they generate gravity on those ships?

Well, they have some sort of control on inertia, because the fighters can do incredible maneuvers and the pilots don't pass out. Also, the fighters don't respond to inertia as they should, so there's something going on. On WC1, ships have acceleration absorbers. They must use this tech to generate gravity.

 

[Aries]

also, the capships fire antimatter warheads and use their main guns to destroy targets

 

[Happy]

they'd most like use a varient of the Maverick Fire-and-Forget missle. lock it on, fire it, leave, target dead.
they could also use an inertial guidance system that would take into account where it is, where it's target is, where it's target is going, the targets most likely route of evaision. that would work for a bomb, but would be rather expensive.