Re: RE-(FT)ECM, never leave home without it

I said:
> >No.	If the target is X distance away, it's still that distance away
> >whether the signal being returned from it is a reflection or its own
> >noise.

Bif orated:
> What I`m trying to say is that the commander of your fleet will only
have a
> limited time to react to infomation collated by the sensors on the
ships
> before giving orders. If you are using active sensors (e.g.-radar),
you have
> to wait for the energy pulse to reach the target and return, where as,
if
> you are using passive sensors, you are just using the emissions from
the
> enemy ships to detect them, so they only have to travel from the enemy
to
> your ship, not there and back.

a) if you're using anything close to the usual
time/distance/acceleration scale, the time lapse for signal generation
and return is significant to fire control, but not to the commander's
observation/decision/action cycle.  The generally accepted scale is
15min/1000km, so you can ping & detect anything up to 150mu away in one
second and have plenty of time to decide what to do.
b) what matters is how far he moves between the time the signal reflects
from him and the time you receive it--that is your "circle of
uncertainty".  It doesn't matter whether the source of the signal is you
or his own noise.

>
> I did have a idea for the stealth built into the hulls of millitary
ships
> after the mail was sent, and it goes along the lines of that civillian
> hulled ships have a emmision signiture size of their mass per 25 mass
> (i.e.-1-25=1, 26-50=2, etc, twice millitary sizes).
>
> Also, I forgot to include that when using area effect ECM, you need to
roll
> to defeate the area ECM first, before you cen scan any ship within
it`s
> effect radius, and then maybe defeate any individual ECM mounted on
the
> individual ship your scanning.
>
> Does anybody else detect DS2 influences in these rules, but instead of
> building stealth into the vehicle, you use ECM systems, which can be
> defeated with sensors.
>
> BIF
> "Yorkshire born, yorkshire bred,
> strong in arms, thick in head"
>
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