TCS help

[Rich.h (OP)]

Hoping someone can help me fully understand how TCS works with regards to active sensors. Am I correct to believe that an active sensor that lets say has resolution 100 and a range of say 10m km, will always detect a 5000+ton vessel inside that 10m km range? Once detected it uses the TCS of a detected vessel to estimate the ship size?

So then a 5000t ship with a cloak will still be detected inside 10m km but it will just appear to be a much smaller vessel than it really is?

[83athom]

A cloaking device makes it so the 5000+ ton vessel has a TCS of a smaller vessel for the purposes of detection. Say the 5000 ton vessel would have the TCS of a 500 ton one, it would be detected at the range a 500 ton vessel would be detected while looking like that small of a vessel.

[Rich.h (OP)]

A cloaking device makes it so the 5000+ ton vessel has a TCS of a smaller vessel for the purposes of detection. Say the 5000 ton vessel would have the TCS of a 500 ton one, it would be detected at the range a 500 ton vessel would be detected while looking like that small of a vessel.

Does that also effect active sensors then? So a cloak works against active sensors in the same way that thermal reduction engines work against TH sensors?

[83athom]

Yes.