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** A combination of a very short range,<ref>best suited to stealthy, small vessels</ref> massive size,<ref>anything but the largest vessels have to sacrifice too much of their other armament to mount one</ref> which requires a use that doesn't fit with the prevailing tactical ideology—and a political climate<ref>its sponsor lost favour, and its debut performance generated massive bad feeling amongst the other powers-that-be</ref> which would prevent time and money being spent on fixing those problems? Not really surprising it never reappears.

*** However, recent technological advances have solved most of these potential problems: the state-of-the-art in space combat has expanded to include drone warfare, the power problem is potentially solvable with recent advances in small, high-power-limited-endurance wer plants, and using stealthed drones carrying one-shot grav lances would entirely obviate the need to risk a ship at suicidally short range (and space warfare missile doctrine has already been oriented for years about the concept of getting a devastating one-shot beam weapon into short range on a missile, then detonating it -- the bomb-pumped laser warhead), so fans are starting to seriously ask questions again on the Baen forums about 'So, when do the grav lance torpedoes come out?' So far, Word of God has been resoundingly silent on the issue.

 

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