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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[A Piece Of Cake]]'', [[Derek Robinson]]'s WWII novel. The seminal moment where the Luftwaffe realizes the fixed-forward cannon in the nose of the Me110 (its only weapon) are absolutely lethal if the target aircraft is obliging enough to position itself in front of you, but no use if the RAF pilot elects to come in from the side or rear... the feared German planes are forced to get into a mutually defending circle like settler wagons beset by Indians, and are absolutely impotent at defending the bombers they are meant to be escorting.
* ''[[Posleen War Series]]'': the super monitor class ship has a spine-mounted [[
* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'': The [[The Callista Trilogy|Darksaber]] is a cylindrical ship that houses a superlaser and makes up the majority of the ship itself.
* ''[[Honor Harrington]]'': The newer generation Light Attack Craft, nicknamed "Super LACs", have spine-mounted weapons, often [[Frickin' Laser Beams|grasers]]. Previous generations of LACs instead carried a single broadside of the biggest missiles they could carry, in hopes of delivering their payload before they were swatted out of the sky. ''In Enemy Hands'' mentions that the thought of spinal guns for ships of the wall had been banished as unfeasible earlier, specifically in contrast with using these on the much smaller and more agile LACs.
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