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Post by tessfield on Nov 14, 2016 19:46:40 GMT
It comes down to "How are they targeting". If it's a human looking at a composite image from all the drones's cameras and keeping a dot over where you want the shots to be, then a flare is just an annoying bright spot. On the other hand, if a drone/missile is targeting 'hottest spot' then yeah, definitely. Though, question, why would a flare momentarily distract a drone instead of making the full spread of that drone useless? (Kind've like missiles already since they just point at the flare and waste all the dV and such.) I guess it comes down to how much autonomy the drones (and a ship's guns for that matter) have. I was assuming a momentary distraction to simulate the human operator intervening (you're wasting space and life support for that set of cheeks-in-the-seat so they might as well earn their keep ;p ). The way Q described gunnery working made it seem to me like they're fairly autonomous during the engagement with the operator there mostly to cross-check and make corrections as needed. I see, in that case it would make sense. Given that you can target things that aren't producing heat, and ignore flares, I assume there's a human pointing the drones in the right direction. Though that's just an assumption. Otherwise guns have brains because adding a gun automatically makes the drone ignore flares and able to target submodules I guess the human just points and cameras work like an After Effects motion detection system thingie and auto correct? Idunno, a singlepoint omnidirectional flare doesn't seem distracting for anything that's not directly pointing at the hottest thing. The flare system is kinda weird when you just dump a few flares out a single point. Though not so weird when you shoot a missile that shoots flare and messes with your visuals.
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Post by wafflestoo on Nov 14, 2016 21:41:47 GMT
I see, in that case it would make sense. Given that you can target things that aren't producing heat, and ignore flares, I assume there's a human pointing the drones in the right direction. Though that's just an assumption. Otherwise guns have brains because adding a gun automatically makes the drone ignore flares and able to target submodules I guess the human just points and cameras work like an After Effects motion detection system thingie and auto correct? Idunno, a singlepoint omnidirectional flare doesn't seem distracting for anything that's not directly pointing at the hottest thing. The flare system is kinda weird when you just dump a few flares out a single point. Though not so weird when you shoot a missile that shoots flare and messes with your visuals. Well, I don't know how much real-world experience you have with thermal imagers and I'll admit I never used anything that would be considered "bleeding edge" these but the scopes we had in the M1A1c would dim or get washed-out by flares, muzzle flash, stuff like that. It was occasionally enough to interfere with target acquisition. Enough that I wouldn't say it's out of the realm of possibility that a 150MW flare blasting out next to the 10MW signal you were trying to follow 50 km away could cause you to lose your target for a second.
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Post by tessfield on Nov 14, 2016 21:46:13 GMT
No real world experience here, though I've seen some vids about what you're talking about. However, in a vacuum, the same effect wouldn't apply. When I say human pointing I was picturing visible spectrum actually, though I imagine they'd be able to image the ship through whatever spectrum they'd like, who knows.
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