Miarss Onaplate
Silver Snake Enterprise
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Posted - 2012.09.20 12:14:00 -
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The theory behind tracking disruption is based on the fact that it you apply it to the ship and it affects the weapon control system (aiming if you wish) causing the desired affect. Similarly with enhancing, you are affecting the ships ability to aim instant damaging weapons.
Non guided missiles feasibly could be affected, as you 'aim' the launcher and fire it like a gun, with a 'timer' to control detonation, hoping the missile is close enough to the target that when it explodes it is close enough to the intended target that the massive explosion causes the required damage. You never count on a direct hit.
With guided missiles however, you program its target and send it on it's merry way. It has an amount of fuel, an ammount of thrust and a warhead contained within, no longer tied to the launching vessel in any way.
Once it has left the ship how can it be affected by anything targetted at the launch vehicle?
It cannot affect the amount of fuel or the engines rate of burn.
It cannot affect the 'explosive type' in the warhead, ie the explosion velocity/radius.
If the flight time is 10 seconds and I launch 5 seconds before I'm TD'd, how does/can that affect the missiles in flight. Same if I launch while under TD and the missile hits target after TD has been stopped/removed.
I could affect missiles in flight if I aimed my 'disruptor' at the missile itself, or it was aimed at my ship and I had an AoE defensive system activated, protective bubble as it were. But it would only take effect when the missile entered it, this would not feasibly stack well with my neighboring ship or fleet.
Similar with enhancements, the targetting of guided & none guided are completely different. One is the point & shoot whilst the other carries the intelligence within a self contained unit.
The missile rigs have the right feel, name and effect, but inclusion of missiles into Tracking systems seems to have spent too little time in the think tank.
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