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[spoiler] The future of missile combat

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Re: [spoiler] The future of missile combat
Post by Jonathan_S   » Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:59 pm

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Maldorian wrote:Why missles with grav com? You can use your sensor probes to give your missles target updates. The Probe maybe will loose their stealth while transmitting, but should be easier to add the missle control frequencies to a probe, than develope a new smaller Apollo warhead.

That was the point what I didn´t understand at captain Zavala´s battle. Why could he speak with his enemies, using his sensor probes, but couldn´t send the self destruct code to his missles with the same probe? Maybe the probes coudn´t use the bandwide of the missles, but that should be easy to change.

There might be good reasons for missiles to turn a deaf ear towards any orders coming from the direction of the enemy. Sure you're encryption should be good enough that the enemy can't order your missiles to self-destruct or swerve away -- but why take that chance?

The recon drones are going to be closer to the enemy than your missiles for almost their entire attack run.
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