Actually, there was a Dr. Who episode where there were great "bow ships"
that were used to destroy giant space vampires.

These did have a large central spike and 3 smaller "arrows"  that were flown
headlong into the heart of the vampire.


Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <391B1588.3D9F7FA8@209software.com>, Bryan Valencia
> <bry### [at] 209softwarecom> wrote:
>
> > Who needs lasers and torpedoes when you can just poke other ships to
> > pieces?
>
> This reminds me of a story I read somewhere...I don't remember where,
> though it might have been by Asimov. There was a battle scene, and the
> defending ships had the usual laser weapons for normal use, but they
> also had a long, hard steel "needle" that they could extend. At a point
> where the battle was going pretty badly for them, these "needleships"
> extended the needle and rammed the enemy ships at high speed. As I
> remember, they did a very good job of destroying the enemy fleet(a
> strong pointed object with the momentum of an entire ship behind it...),
> even though the needle often could only be used once(they tended to
> break off or get stuck, and the ship could sustain damage in the
> ramming).
> Of course, it wouldn't resemble this ship at all, I imagined it as a
> large solid spear-like object on a boom in front of the ship, maybe to
> one side.
>
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