Missiles: Do they ever miss???

[Suicide Junkie]

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Good argument. But won't the ECM power also be higher by the same factor?7

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That's only if the ECM works by "reaching out to touch someone"
If the ECM works by creating false bogeys, or masking the ship to look like background radiation, the effect would break down as you get close, and be better far away.

Cloaks can be detected during tactical, combat, when the ships are close.
So similarily, decoys could be seen through from close up.

The 10 billion times sensor boost of the missile more than makes up for the advanced sensors on any ship.

OTOH, if the ECM is reaching out to jam sensors with active interference, couldn't the missile be programmed to seek that source of interference?
Also, if the ship is sending out active ECM, there is a whole lotta garbage singnals coming in. There is also a very weak real signal from the ship. As your missile gets closer, the interference builds at the same rate as your sensor power, but so does the real ship's signal.
With the exact same software that is used to find the cloaked ship against the noisy background of space, you find the ship amidst the noisy background of interference.


Overall, consider the CSM. Unmodded, it claims to have a nuclear warhead. You don't need a direct hit with a nuke to hurt somebody