Post by goduranus on Dec 10, 2016 9:12:12 GMT
Right now missiles in the game are only destroyed by losing their propulsion or warhead components, but in my(non-engineering-background) opinion this is ignoring a major vulnerability of these unmanned systems?
So, IR seekers have to be mounted on the front of the missile and can't be armored with anything that blocks IR, what's keeping IR lasers from just shooting through the nosecone and destroying the missile seeker?
Also, suppose missiles have a command datalink that they can use in case they lose their seekers, what's keeping these datalinks from being destroyed by some sort of magnetic pulse weapon? A warship could carry spare antennas to last a while but how many spare 1000km antennas can a missile carry?
Non-nuclear EMP, persumably works without a Van-Allen Belt.
science.howstuffworks.com/e-bomb3.htm
So, IR seekers have to be mounted on the front of the missile and can't be armored with anything that blocks IR, what's keeping IR lasers from just shooting through the nosecone and destroying the missile seeker?
Also, suppose missiles have a command datalink that they can use in case they lose their seekers, what's keeping these datalinks from being destroyed by some sort of magnetic pulse weapon? A warship could carry spare antennas to last a while but how many spare 1000km antennas can a missile carry?
Non-nuclear EMP, persumably works without a Van-Allen Belt.
science.howstuffworks.com/e-bomb3.htm
