How much antimatter can Starfleet produce?

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How much antimatter can Starfleet produce?

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I mean, I wonder if, faced with an Imperial invasion, they would be able to produce uber-missiles with several thousand tons of AM to destroy Star Destroyers... (Let's say a missile with 2,000 tons of AM and 2,000 tons of matter. If they made both the M and AM of a very dense substance (such as DU) they might get a missile small enough for a stripped-out GCS to carry dozens and dozens of them. Then if they could fire them off fast enough and if the missiles could actually hit without being intercepted by fire from the Star Destroyers...)

Just pondering these things.
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Acclamator wrote:I mean, I wonder if, faced with an Imperial invasion, they would be able to produce uber-missiles with several thousand tons of AM to destroy Star Destroyers... (Let's say a missile with 2,000 tons of AM and 2,000 tons of matter. If they made both the M and AM of a very dense substance (such as DU) they might get a missile small enough for a stripped-out GCS to carry dozens and dozens of them. Then if they could fire them off fast enough and if the missiles could actually hit without being intercepted by fire from the Star Destroyers...)

Just pondering these things.
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I personally wonder if the figure "200isoton yield" literatly means 200isotons of anti-matter and matter....what a bang!
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Robert Walper wrote:I personally wonder if the figure "200isoton yield" literatly means 200isotons of anti-matter and matter....what a bang!

That's impossible. The Dreadnought missle outgunned Voyager easily and only had 1 ton.
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lso would all of the MAM mix actually react before its blown too far apart
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The trick would be to have a transporter superimpose the normal matter over the antimatter, if thats even possible.
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Hmm... the trick would be to use a Dominion transporter with a 3LY range, and beam the matter and antimatter into contact with eachother, right against the ISD's shields.
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