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[[Image:OWP.jpg|thumb|right|An Orbital Weapons Platform{{Fn|1}}]]
'''Orbital Defense Platforms''' are orbiting [[Space Stations]] used by the [[Imperial Navy]] and [[Planetary Defense Force]]s for defense of a world against enemy spacecraft. They are deployed within a planet or moon's gravity well and are armed with a variety of weapons. The most sophisticated Orbital Defense Platforms, those used to defend [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] worlds and key planets, have no crew at all and use complex logic engines to detect and fire at enemy vessels that do not broadcast the correct identification codes.{{Fn|1}}

==Types of Orbital Defense Platforms==
*'''Orbital Weapons Platforms''': usually mount several [[laser]] batteries capable of striking at the enemy before they get too close to the planet.{{Fn|1}}
*'''Orbital Defense Laser Platforms''' are armed with massive [[Defense Laser]]s, large [[laser]] cannons capable of penetrating a capital ship's armour. Built around a powerful [[plasma reactor]], a defense laser platform is armed with several of these large cannons, giving it the ability to fire them in every direction. Defense laser platforms are particularly effective at destroying fast-moving [[escort]] craft sent ahead of a main enemy fleet to conduct reconnaissance and raiding.{{Fn|1}}
*'''Orbital [[Torpedo]] Launchers''' and missile batteries are one of the greatest deterrents to an enemy intent on attacking an [[Imperial]] world. They can attack from a distance to disrupt an enemy fleet's advance and deliver a lethal blow against vessels that approach too closely to a planet. They have proved effective against attacks by [[Ork]] and [[Chaos]] forces.{{Fn|1}}

==See also==
*[[Space Station]]
*[[System Defence Fleet]]
*[[System Defence Monitor]]

==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1280005_BFG_Ships_of_the_Gothic_Sector.pdf Ships of the Gothic Sector], pgs. 141-142

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