

If you watch Attack of the Clones, Battle of Geonosis part, you will notice that while Separatist Hailfire (sorry if I spelled wrong) droids had great success against Republic walkers, republic gunships quickly destroyed them, demonstrating importance of air superiority. "Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. Security force on starship seems to be relatively small to moderate, maybe up to 100 personnell. Both Type-3 designs had rapid-fire ability, similar to USS Defiant's pulse phased cannons. We also see spatial charges in VOY: "Dark Frontier".ĭuring TNG, ship security mainly used type-2 phasers after Dominion War (in FC and Nemesis) we saw Security personell using Type-3 phasers, or phaser rifles, which were ergonomically better than previous generation of rifles, seen during Dominion War (which actually seemed to be short-range carbine). Some kind of armor tunic was also used by 22nd century MACOs, as seen here. Tricoders are used as personal sensors.ĭuring DS9, we see more of Federation infantry equipment, like smoke grenades (seen here at 7:05 to 7:42), armor tunic (DS9 "Nor the Battle to the Strong"), and we hear about personal forcefields (althought we only see makeshift forcefield in "A Fistful of Data"), photon grenades (heard about in TNG "Legacy" and DS9 "Homefront"). Starfleet uses phaser rifles and hand phasers as primary firearms.
