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Does it?

No, Alpha Strike is a phrase for the firing of all weapons.

Including the trench cannons?

Well, "all weapons except the trench cannons" does not mean "all weapons," now, does it?

My understanding is that an Alpha Strike means to fire all available weapons that can bear on target. So damaged weapons or those that can't aim at the target wouldn't be counted. Every weapon that can fire at the target, however, does.

Alpha Strike is an carrier aircraft term referring to a maximum effort using all available aircraft to strike at a single target. I don't know how its come into usage in sci fi to refer to ship-to-ship combat, but whatever the definition is its fan made and can be whatever you want.

BattleTech, or at least some of the MechWarrior games, refers to a 'Mech firing all of its forward-arc weapons at a target an Alpha Strike, as well.

BDZ is a dedicated operation that leaves a planet fully incapable of supporting life. It is a quick operation, as one of its key parts is that no messages or ships can escape.

Alpha strike is just hitting a target with all available firepower.

Sea Skimmer wrote:Alpha Strike is an carrier aircraft term referring to a maximum effort using all available aircraft to strike at a single target. I don't know how its come into usage in sci fi to refer to ship-to-ship combat, but whatever the definition is its fan made and can be whatever you want.

It also stems from the old Battleship days where it means firing all weapons facing the target.

YT300000 wrote:Does it?

Only if you are using a Death Star as an example.... Then of course the planet isn't there anymore anyway if it fired every weapon it possesed at it.

Isolder74 wrote:
It also stems from the old Battleship days where it means firing all weapons facing the target.

No it does not, the term was created during the early days of Yankee station off Vietnam. The comparable and far older term for a battleship would be a broadside.

Broadsiding is mentioned several times in SW, but mostly by the authors and not spoken by characters.

No thread necromancy

Sea Skimmer wrote:No thread necromancy

??

A little over a week is necromancy now?

Mad wrote:
A little over a week is necromancy now?

It has been for sometime. Especially if the contribution is a pointless one-liner which will not create further conversation. If you found a new major article on the subject or some other major information it's a bit of a different story.

*shrug* The last anouncement I saw mentioned "weeks" in the plural sense. 1 week and 2 days doesn't quite qualify for that.

Then again, the bumping post didn't really add any new information, either.