Re: Super-Duper Sensor System

Michael Robert Blair wrote:

> It would be easy to put a ships signature value on its
> SDD.
>
> Would a ships signature increase as it took damage? So
> at the end of the damage rows there might be a series
> of different signature values.
>
> Missiles would not attack the closest ship but instead
> the largest signature within range - so sacrificial
> escorts would need a 'blip enhance' system like the
> Falklands helios.

We can safely assume that any unit has the blip enhancer software plugin
for its IFF beacon.  At 1000km per mu and given that the return signal
strength varies with the inverse of the fourth power of the range, the
blip enhancer need not be that much larger than a beer can to be
effective against any radar that moves (except at close ranges), and
won't consume more than a few watts of power.

>
>
> This also suggest a series of sneaky manoeuvres -
> artificially boosting a ships signature to fool an
> enemy - like a submarine releasing oil and debris.
> Amusing but better suited to a novel or RPG rather
> than FT.