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I've considered this type of explanation as well.
If you concede that it's possible to get a loose lock or partial solution, then we should see ships equipped with (space-opera styled) agile "spotlights," 40mm pom-poms, hedgehog depth charge throwers, and VT fuses, to cover that last leg of the firing solution.
Since UC is 1941-1945 in a bodykit, they may as well know about these things.

I've made napkin sketches of a rotary prismatic raygun turret, as an idea to diversify & add counterplay to fighterpod-centric space opera scenarios. One day I should finish that...

No comment on the radiation poisoning objection?