On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

For missiles, you could have a central magazine that feeds to launch tubes both fore and aft, at least if you are using relatively small missiles.

Why bother? unless the launcher is also a catapult, you could just mount ejection tubes on the perimeter, aligned with the main axis, and just push them out. They can just precess until pointed in the right direction, and then fire primary drives.

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