Re: Missiles was Re: UNSC beta and FB3

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jared Hilal" <jlhilal@yahoo.com>

> It is almost as if the seekers are not active until the salvo reaches
> the target point, at which time the sensors become active and look for
> a target.  This is like artillery in a ground game.  It works if you
> PSB that the missiles use some sort of jump or hyperspace movement and
> "appear" at the target point, but otherwise it is quite poor.

Actually, this is precisely the way some present-day long-range
anti-ship
missiles operate. They travel to a designated point, using an inertial
system for navigation, Once at that point, they activate their seeker
head
(which presumably, is a bit more intelligent than the FT missile ones).
There are several reasons for using such an approach: the missile is
harder
to detect by the target, it is less suceptible to be led astray by ECM,
less
risk of locking onto the wrong target.

Greetings
Karl Heinz