Missiles: Do they ever miss???

[Suicide Junkie]

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Missiles brain would not be that powerful that they would be able to have several ways of detecting an enenmy ship.
If you look at missiles of today then the set and forget missiles lock on one thing such a the heat of the engines or even the radar signal being sent out by the enemy unit.
The Exocet missile worked in one war but now a ECM device has been devoloped to stop it from hitting the ship.
Chaff is used to stop radar using missiles.
Flares are used to stop Infra-red missiles.
A modern ECM pod senses to frequency of the incoming homing missile and sends a fake signal back to send it the wrong direction.
Missiles are very venerable to the ECM of the target.

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Chaff, Flares are countermeasures and not ECM. That's more PD than ECM.

Like I was saying, with the 10 billion times increase in sensor power, you can easily tell the difference between the real ship and the decoys.

These are not modern day dogfights. The distances involved change everything.
Try playing a FPS with 1000 lag, and you will see what ships at range 4 are dealing with while the missile is the guy with 5 ping, and deals with none of that.
Add in the fact that as the missile approaches, the image of the target literaly grows by 10 billion times! Even if the missile has only 1% of the ship's abilities, that leaves a hundred million times more detection power.