I still don't get how sensors work on missiles. If I want my bombers to fire their missiles and then turn off their actives immediately does it mean I need missiles with sensors to seek their own targets or will they continue to seek the targets marked for them by the bomber's actives even after they're turned off?
Missiles would need their own sensors in that situation.
If you’re familiar with real world weaponry, imagine a missile in Aurora is an AIM-7. It is guided by a radar signal being reflected off the target, beamed at the target by the launch platform. If the launch platform stops painting the target.....the missile is lost and has no means of acquiring the target on it’s own.
With a sensor onboard the missile, it’s much more similar to an AIM-120. The missile will accept data from the launch platform to guide it to the target. However, if it loses guidance from the launch platform it will engage it’s own radar/sensors to locate the target.
As to what target the missiles will go for, I am fairly certain they will continue on to the initial target if the onboard sensors could see the target when the launch platform went dark. Take that with a grain of salt though, I’ve not toyed around with missile sensors a lot in this version.