Type.S101 Missile Destroyer
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaQ94VaQYMY

1. One assumes large torpedo bay.
2. Top down or down the throat or up the skirt, the actual concept is being able to target the most vulnerable and/or unprotected area of the spaceship.
3. I guess should do some research into what constitute a decoy in Traveller.
4. Makes sense, as any ship two kay tonnes and above has got to fear torpedoes.
5. Commerce raiders would launch highly destructive torpedoes against largish freighters, who are unlikely to have the speed to evade it, the defensive systems to shoot it down, nor the mass to be able to absorb the damage.
6. Seems to be a case why you keep freighters below two thousand tonnes.
7. Of course, at this point, you have fighter bombers to strafe them, or the guns roll out to put a couple of holes in them, because it would be cheaper than missiles.