Would they be most likely to stay in capital ships and just try to shoot down the missiles? Anti-ship missiles will be travelling faster than a fighter (no need to be delicate with the meat, or carry unnecessary weight) and be able to manoever harder, and any countermeasures capable of taking out one of those missiles will easily be able to take out a fighter.
You can already see the convergence of missile and aircraft defense in modern missiles like the Aster. If the principle weapons of the warships are missiles, then the principle defense will be counter-missiles, point defense projectile weapons and lasers. If you meant " take out their missiles at a distance" you might be closer to the mark, but that's a job for high-speed, fast-reacting expendable interceptor missiles, not fighters.īoth sides would develop AA technology for their ships, or counter with fighters You don't "take out their launchers", you wreck their ships. Kinetic projectiles with relative speeds of tens of kilometres per second. Warfare in space is likely to involve excessive amounts of energy, one way or another. However, the more I think about it, you’d want to take out your enemy’s missile launchers, It'll all be drones as soon as is practical, and when someone works out an effective laser anti-aircraft system, it'll be back to battleships again. Fighters aren't even a realistic evolution of current naval warfare.
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