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Citadel Launcher
Very big launchers for use on capital ships (Dreadnaughts, Carriers, Motherships,Titans), the equivalent of Extra Large guns. They fire Citadel Torpedoes; the refire rate is tremendously slow but can pump out massive damage to other capital ships, POS towers, outposts, and battleships. However, firing these at any ship smaller than a battleship would be a waste as the signature radius penalty would reduce the damage too much.
Bomb Launcher
Bomb launchers are specialty systems designed for stealth bomber class vessels. Bomb bays launch a warhead that causes area of effect damage. Due to the high cost of manufacturing bombs, most stealth bombers don't use bombs in combat.
Ammunition
Missiles are quite different from the turret weapons. When launched, a missile tracks its target and maneuvers to hit it. Every missile has a Velocity, Flight Time, and Agility rating. Velocity is how fast it moves, flight time is how long it can fly, and agility is how well it can adjust its heading to follow a target. Velocity multiplied flight time together make the effective range of the missile. If a missile flies at 1000 meters per second, and has a maximum flight time of 25 seconds, then its maximum range is 25,000 meters (25km). Agility is simply how well it stays on target. If a person can maneuver around the missile for long enough, it runs out of fuel and does nothing to them, so agility helps with faster targets. Pilots can also warp out of the area before a missile reaches them, but there are ways around this as well (see Medium Power Slots below).
All missiles do a single damage type, but usually do a whole lot of it. So, you might have a missile that does huge thermal damage, but it only does thermal damage. You can also swap missiles in a launcher in the same way as swapping ammunition in a turret.
There are many types of missile types, and I'll briefly explain each. Not all missiles are for doing damage, either. Some have special purposes, so let's look at them in more detail:
Rockets
Rockets are like the submachine gun of the missile world. They are short ranged, and the better rockets have a very fast flight speed. They don't do as much damage per rocket, but the launchers are all fast firing (rockets have their own launcher type).
Defender Missiles
Defender missiles are the anti-missile missile. These missiles can be loaded in multiple launchers and are used to shoot down enemy missiles as they approach. Currently defender missiles are considered broken. They need to be manually activated when there is an incoming missile and can't be activated when there are no missiles. When they do activate the act like a normal launcher firing an infinite amount of missiles (taking the launchers reload time into account) until the target missile is destroyed. When multiple missiles are homing for you the defenders will always target the missile nearest to you until it is destroyed. Meaning sometimes multiple defenders will target the same missiles, even when there are multiple missiles inbound.
Light Missiles
Light missiles pack less of a punch and have less range, but have faster launchers.
Heavy Missiles
Heavy missiles are faster and have longer flight times, and also do more damage per missile than standard missiles, but their launchers are slower.
Heavy Assault Missiles
Heavy assault missiles fly slower, for a shorter amount of time and do less damage than heavy missiles; however Heavy Assault Missile launchers have a much faster rate of fire than heavy missile launchers.
