My 0.2:

Fighters are great pickets, patrol boats, sensor extenders and force projectors. They are also good for ground attack, and harassment.

So I see them used to go out, find trouble and run like hell away from it.

Also I see them being used to kill fuel shuttles, blow up things the marines don’t want to deal with, kill other fighters, tanks, shuttles, scouts, missiles etc.

I often explain that the Tigress style of Dreadnoughts are self escorting, due to the 300 fighters each carry. Have a Batron of 6 of those bad boys jump in system and you have a potent force to really control the entire system on hand.

On Oct 7, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://tech-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/10/05/1843222/us-navy-develops-robot-boat-swarm-to-overwhelm-enemies
>
> I can see the 3I using all those fighters that aren't much use against
> other battleships in this kind of role - keeping the launches and
> cutters that might or might not be suicide shuttles at bay.
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