my idea of why the NC dont have much of a backing

[Stalefish]

You guys don't realize that this is the future, everything is futurized, no wires, no worries. You're right though, it probably can't be guided forever, so you'd have to be reasonably close.

Maybe one shot is good enough to take out any target. That would be a really good trade off, that no matter what you hit (as long as it's a vehicle or person or something) is going to die, but you wouldn't be able to use it again so you'd have to fight any friends the unit had around it.