‘’TWO OF THE NEAREST MISSILES HAVE CHANGED COURSE AND ARE HEADING FOR US, CAPTAIN! THEY SHOULD IMPACT IN ABOUT TWENTY SECONDS.’’
‘’HAVE OUR SECONDARY RAIL g*n TURRETS ENGAGE THEM WITH A MASS CONCENTRATED VOLLEY!’’
‘’AYE, CAPTAIN!’’
Jamilian then switched the eighteen 25 meter-long rail guns of their secondary turrets, lodged inside the six huge landing pods of the KOSTROMA, to ‘automated anti-missile mode’ by simply pressing a button. While those rail guns were minuscule compared to the four 150 meter-long heavy rail guns of their main battery, those smaller weapons still threw tungsten-steel pellets out at a muzzle velocity of eight kilometers per second and at a cadence of 900 pellets per minute. The impact of a single pellet on a typical ship hull would burn through it easily via the
