Talk:United States of America/@comment-24642271-20160309061412/@comment-27404954-20160309203955

"at least stall"

Just fire a tungsten drop rod out of an orbital railgun. That way, it'd have even more mass and speed than a normal drop rod coming from orbit under free fall.

Bye bye, ship.

Or you could make a nuclear missile with a minitaturized toroid particle accelerator and a warp drive. Whip a bunch of electrons around, slam them at relativistic speeds into a critical mass of some massive atom like lawrencium. The atom wouldn't have time to decay thanks to warp speed; it'd arrive at its target just as it gets hit by the electrons. You thought plutonium fission was big? How many places up on the atomic mass table is lawrencium? Or you could pick a more stable atom if you want to hedge your bets.

Or you could go conventional and just launch a swarm of erratically-travelling very high-velocity anti-ship missiles, using completely random atmospheric noise to program their evasive manuevers. Once they get within the point-defense bubble, shut off the randomization and have them all slam into a single spot on the ship.

Or you could use a flying ship's superheavy railgun or superlaser to "snipe" it from a long distance, preferably aiming for the side-mounted hangar doors where armor is weak and the hangars (aka, boxes of ammunition, planes, and fuel) are.

Choices, choices...