Point defense
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Point defense refers to weapons systems designed to intercept incoming ordinance.
Real-life Point Defense Systems
- Goalkeeper Close in Weapons System (CIWS)
- Phalanx system
Point Defense in Science Fiction
- In Stargate, Tau'ri spacecraft are equiped with point defense systems, at first being armed with CIWS Systems, but latter switched to Railguns.
- In the latest incarnation Battlestar Galactica, the Galactica is equipped with a large arsenal of point defense weaponry.
- The interceptors used by EarthForce ships in Babylon 5 are a type of point defense weapon.
- In Star Trek the USS Kelvin was equiped with a set of point defense phasers.