Re: Full Thrust : Electronic Warfare

At 01:50 PM 11/3/98 +0000, Thomas Anderson wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Phillip E. Pournelle wrote:
>> 
>>    To fire on a target, you must establish a lock on.  You cannot
engage
>> the enemy ship with a weapon without getting a lock on first.
>
>how long does a lock last? do you need to reacquire each turn? in this
>case, ships need to be able to make several lock-ons a turn or multiple
>firecons are useless.

	Once a lock on has occured, the target is tracked the entire
time.  You
don't scan the universe with your fire control system, its pencil thin. 
On
the other hand a Fire Control system is almost impossible to jam given
the
amount of power concentrated on the target.  So the rule is, once the
target is locked, he's locked...

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