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06-21-2014, 12:08 PM | #52 | |
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06-21-2014, 12:14 PM | #53 |
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06-21-2014, 03:33 PM | #54 |
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06-21-2014, 06:29 PM | #55 | |
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Re: Question about homing weapon lock on
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It seems like taking the action of Aiming is enough to consider the homing weapon as locked-on and the roll is just to add the Acc of the weapon to its attack. If you fail, you can still fire the weapon and have it use its base skill (usually 10). Granted, that's usually a large bonus to lose out on. I'm also not entirely sure how a character would actually know that they failed the Aim roll. |
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06-21-2014, 11:04 PM | #57 |
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Re: Question about homing weapon lock on
[QUOTE=Ulzgoroth;1777775]Which guided missiles do you mean? You cannot possibly spoof a beam riding or command-guided missile with chaff or flares...you might be able to spoof the ground-based fire control, but not the missile, because the missile isn't looking at you at all.
QUOTE] The technique of spoofing a missile with chaff, or the various radar transmitters is exactly the same since it is the same equipment doing it. Notice I said the techniques. the targets of the spoofing will be different but the defending aircraft when using jammers or chaff does the exact same to either the radar emitting aircraft or missile. The only differences is that the radar on an aircraft will have more power and thus will burn-through the jamming easier and negate any modifiers the jamming will create, also the aircraft will have a larger and thus more powerful computer (usually) and thus can eliminate the chaff as a distraction. Chaff does not move very much and a powerful computer can delete any signal that does no move a certain amount or more. Flares are used against IR missiles such as he Sidewinder and trick the seeker head to changing its lock-on from the engine exhaust to the brighter heat source that the flare is, flares are useless against radar. It was the practice of early Soviet fighters to launch a heat-seeker and a radar-guided version of their air-to-air missile so it became the practice to fire flares off as well as chaff when any missile was launched. BTW, HARM missiles are optimized for ground radar sites and are no used for attacking aircraft, they do not maneuver well enough.
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Re: Question about homing weapon lock on
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