I'm developing a planet defense plan, and was curious about some nitnoids in designing a defense strategy around PDCs + small, fast, sensor support ships.
The idea is a planet would have a few PDCs hosting large missile launchers (The backstory being, converted Conventional Missile Silos launching TN Missiles), and a small fleet of small active sensor ships. The ultimate flow is the sensor ships would locate and get an active sensor lock on an enemy target, and the PDCs would launch long-range drones containing 3-4 short range TN Missiles. Once getting within separation range of the ships being tracked by the sensor boat, the drones would deploy their submunitions for a large salvo of TN missiles on the targets.
Is this feasible within the current mechanics? Does the PDC MFC need to be able to reach the targets, or can it fire at a waypoint? Can a MFC be put on the sensor boat to take over direction of either the drones, or the deployed submunitions? Or to do this at all do I need active sensors on both the drones and the submunitions, can only launch at a waypoint, and hope the targets blunder into the drone's path?