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Michael Thayne · 02-08-2019, 08:55 AM

Wait a second the "defense in depth" strategy, even when used with assumptions maximally favorable to it, doesn't solve the 2% miss chance problem AFAICT. It can solve the problem that vs. proximity detonation warheads, sometimes your odds of stopping all 10 sub-munitions is even worse than a 2% miss chance, so you have incentive to fire before the sub-munitions are released (i.e. when the missile is still at least 1 round away from the target in the tactical combat system).

02-08-2019, 08:55 AM	#6
Michael Thayne Join Date: May 2010	Re: [Spaceships] How does large-scale space warfare play out (without superscience)? Wait a second the "defense in depth" strategy, even when used with assumptions maximally favorable to it, doesn't solve the 2% miss chance problem AFAICT. It can solve the problem that vs. proximity detonation warheads, sometimes your odds of stopping all 10 sub-munitions is even worse than a 2% miss chance, so you have incentive to fire before the sub-munitions are released (i.e. when the missile is still at least 1 round away from the target in the tactical combat system).