Dr Forbidden recently gave a technical briefing to the press and spoke about technologies that may be used in the next generations of DDS weapons. He said that the next generation of transphasic missile (TPM) will be smaller allowing for a higher weapon load on ships. These 2nd generation TPMs would have improved terminal guidance, a higher speed and improved transphasic cloak equipment.
He said that the third generation, to be introduced in the next decade, might have built-in teleportation devices to help the missile evade countermeasures. It might also teleport into the target once it got close enough. The DDS are also looking at improved warheads, even maybe using anti-matter.
Dr Forbidden then said that it was possible that an enemy may develop weapons as powerful as the TPM and the DDS had to protect against it. He said the Panther destroyer was the first ship in the known galaxy designed to survive multiple transphasic missile hits. He said the Panther had a distributed power grid with 3 separate reactor cores. Each core was ejectable if it was about to explode and had a containment forcefield if it exploded before it could be ejected. The forcefield would prevent a core explosion destroying the rest of the ship. This, as well as Open Architecture and Off-site Processing would allow a ship to still operate even if it had been badly damaged.
The DDS were also working on the next generation of passive sensors, vital for ships that needed to maintain their stealth settings. He said that the DDS may roll out improved passive sensors by the end of the next decade that nearly had the sensitivity of current generation active sensors. He said that it was likely that the DDS would stop development of active sensors to concentrate on the passive. "DDS ships in combat zones can spent weeks in cloak, we need to really improve their eyes and ears in these situations."
