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In the Dune universe, why not use laser weapons as bombs? (self.sciencefiction)
submitted 7 months ago by sudo42 to c/sciencefiction
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In the Dune universe, when a laser weapons hits a shield, both are destroyed in a nuclear explosion reaction.

So instead of building nuclear weapons, wouldn’t it be easier to tie a timer and a “parachute” to a laser gun and drop it from orbit onto your enemy’s city?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also sometimes the explosion would be on the side of the laser, not the shield. So you could shoot one down from space and end up blowing your ship up and not having anything bad happen to the shield side on the planet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Or anywhere along the beam IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yea I think so. Basically it's just unreliable af. Now that I think of it, it seems that Dune 2 got rid of the part where they do that. I seem to recall Duncan or someone in the first book purposely doing this?