Why Daedalus missiles need more than Mark 41 cells

Could the squares on the BC-304's neck represent sixteen VLS clusters like those on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer?

The layout is visually plausible, but space-combat missiles would probably be much larger, favoring fewer reloadable clusters and deep magazines.

The comment imagines the BC-304 as a flying missile-silo complex built around familiar naval VLS geometry. Interplanetary range would demand missiles far larger than a Mark 41 cell can hold. A suggested alternative is roughly twenty-four reloadable quad clusters fed from magazines below, with individual weapons perhaps fifteen meters long and a meter wide. That arrangement separates the number of launch positions from the depth of the ammunition supply. The exercise shows how familiar surface-warship layouts change once propulsion and range are scaled for space combat.