Battlestar Galactica Starship Armament

Colonial Law disallowed weaponry on most nonmilitary craft, reserving offensive vehicles for the Colonial Fleet, for the Colonial Marines, and for local police forces. All Cylon vehicles encountered to date have been heavily armed.

The primary vehicle armament is a mass accelerator weapon (MAW). This kinetic weapon propels a projectile at high velocity. It can deliver a simple slug (or bullet) or a complex package (an explosive or nuclear warhead) to its target. MAWs project their munitions a number of ways, but the most common are through chemical reaction, such as gunpowder or in the case of missiles and rockets, through fuel-based engines.

Vehicle weaponry usually follows the craft’s mission design. If intended to combat personnel, the weapons are character scale and feature anti-personal munitions. If focused on destroying starfighters or capital ships, that scale and shaped-charge, anti-armor are the norm.

Autocannons and Machineguns
Railguns
Missiles