Posted by: areyoua
« on: May 30, 2011, 03:57:47 PM »But you never know, even Steve doesn't know where the Russians might be, or when they'll stri-ahhhhhh!
I meant see on the sensors what the Eridani are capable of.
Given that those had to run from swarm and the like every now and then, and there were cloaked spies sitting in every major system.
Ultimately, they'll notice as soon as the Eridani start hunting for swarm.
Soviet Union vs Eridani(ex-NATO): Antiship Missiles
Excerpt from Jane's all the Galaxy's Weapons
Didn't the Soviets Catch the new top speed by now?
You mentioned moving Ground Unit TFs from Sol to Eridani.
To my knowledge you can't actually load the things. How does that work?
very interesting analisys you made here, but you mistaken Eridani Navy ships top-speed is 7000 km/s, except for the refitted Carrier 6250 km/s and the two newer models of course, which give them a slightly greater advantage towards Soviet NavyI thought that was a clever in-universe deception: Jane's Hardware wouldn't actually know the real top speed of military vessels, as the Eridani have actually been pretty fastidious at covering the full extent of their capabilities up when foreign observers were about. For the same reason that the flank speeds of many real-world naval vessels are kept classified. Of course, I'm sure they're all documented in the Kremlin somewhere. That kind of thing the Soviets were always very, very good at. But a miltech mag? They'll probably have it wrong.
If the missile will fly to it's targets projected position at the time the seneor is lost, then activate its onboard seeker it would have a much better chance of re-acquiring the target.Look at it the other way around. Once the missileit loses its original lockon it will continue to move towards the original spot where it lost the lockon. While it is doing this it will look for an alternate target. If it finds one then that is what it will home in on. If it went to the original target spot and then activated its sensor it would miss almost anything unless it was very close when it lost the lockon.
I seem to remember however that once a missile loses its target it will home in on any valid target it sees, even if it has not yet reached where the target was lost. Brian