Collision course

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For the mash-up album by Jay-Z and Linkin Park, see Collision Course.

A collision course, also known as a kamikaze run is the deliberate maneuver by the operator of a moving object (or often in Sci-Fi a spaceship) to collide with another object. It is a desperate maneuver since it often damages or destroys both.

  • Ancient Greek Triremes were reinforced and equipped with bronze rammers, so they could collide with enemy ships to sink them
  • Admiral Nelson used a similar tactic to attack the French fleet at Trafalgar, to the horror of Captain Hardy, when he ordered the British ships to 'run aboard' (crash into, or just ahead of the ships).
  • Kamikaze Pilots from Japan used collision course tactics to take out naval vessels or large Bombers in the latter days of World War 2. Such tactics even extended to the construction of dedicated kamikaze aircraft, such as the Ohka.

  • In Star Trek: Deep Space 9 the Jem'Hadar use a kamikaze run to stop Large Federation ships, notably the USS Odyssey (NCC-71832) destroyed circa stardate 47990.
  • In the Babylon 5 episode Severed Dreams, the critically damaged EAS Churchill rams the loyalist ship EAS Roanoke, destroying both.
  • In Stargate SG-1, Jaffa Ha'tak vessels ram Ori battlecruisers on at least two occasions, but are unable to defeat the superior Ori shields, resulting in the destruction of only the Ha'taks.

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