GMS

John A replied to me:

Side note:  Lasers will be blatantly obvious to any SF
force with optics.  Anyone not using the Mk I Eyeball
will be able to tell what's being designated and who's designating.

1) Can optics be set in all frequencies at once, from IR through visible
and out into UV? Dunno. If so, you're right. I assume designators will
in fact incur this risk. One of the parts of the rules is the idea of
suppressions applied to the designator or smoke (aerosol) laid to block
the beam. I'm assuming designators may be tunable and you'd have to have
your optics on the right frequency. And you hope they have good
amplitude cut-off limiters or I'm gonna maybe use your use of freq
filters to try to blind you... ;) (Note CF personel have already
suffered these attacks from Russian spy ships)
2) I planned to lay down 'paint' counters. 
3) Maybe I can use some quantum designator or neutrinos or some thing?
Dunno. Something harder to detect.

One question: 
Anyone (OO?) know how good/accurate a modern warner system is on AFVs?
Does it give you range/bearing and automatically undertake defense
measures? If so, what are the range/nature of responses?

> Programable attack GMS are probably quite feasible,
> but what kind of PDS
> or other penalties should appear due to the altered
> attack profile, if
> any? Should the missile miss more often?

Didn't we argue over that already?  Short Form: it
depends on whether you're a ballistic arc up and then
down, or a "pop-up" style attack.

[Tomb]
Assuming I wast talking only about top attack, yes. 

I've never heard anything that indicates top attack
missles are less acurate than straight flying missles.

[Tomb] Here's my thought: If I try to get fancy and land on your back
deck, and you are moving, I have less margin for error than if I try to
land on the turret top or vehicle center. Similarly, if I fire a missile
at you from the front and want it to go around the side or back... well,
that might degrade accuracy. Maybe not? 

 Then again, my two main data points are the Javelin
and the Dragon, and frankly the Javelin could have a
50/50 chance of completely dudding and still be better
than the Dragon.

[Tomb] Well, we rarely see this kind of thing represented. Maybe for
ammo-tracking weapons, dudding (double 1s on the attack dice? or higher
for crappy weapons?) might be useful. Of course, you can PSB high
quality in 2183, but I have as much faith in that as I do in honest