locarno24 said:Depends on the definition of hypsersonic...
Mach 6-7 hypersonic missiles? Should cut through the side armor like butter.
locarno24 said:As commented before. Torpedoes are always the ship-killer. However, they also don't translate to traveller equivalent because they are using (a) the advantages of underwater detonation physics, and (b) the weight of the ship itself to inflict damage, neither of which really applies in space combat.
Yes, underwater torpedoes don't have a spatial equivalent. But then again underwater torpedoes don't have an equivalent of smashing objects into each other at ultra-high velocities. Depending on how the missile impacts (chasing from behind or colliding head-on), the terminal velocity and kinetic energy can be far more massive than the energy generated by an underwater explosion.