Does Alpha Strike=BDZ

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-08-27 07:13pm

Does it?

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-08-27 07:26pm

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

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-08-27 07:37pm

Including the trench cannons?

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2003-08-27 08:05pm

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.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-27 08:11pm

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.

Kerneth · Post by **Kerneth** » 2003-08-27 09:05pm

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.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2003-08-27 10:28pm

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.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-08-28 12:36am

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.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-08-28 12:38am

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.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-28 01:25am

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.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2003-09-06 02:37pm

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

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-09-06 02:42pm

No thread necromancy

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2003-09-06 03:55pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:No thread necromancy

??

A little over a week is necromancy now?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-09-06 04:05pm

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.

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2003-09-06 04:15pm

*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.

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