From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: How to handle missiles?
Date:	Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:11:46 +0200

>>So I hope you have damn good ECM equipment onboard.
>
>How about chaff?

I had a discussion about missiles with someone else a few weeks back, his
problem was that the different Signature modifiers in the RBB were rather
confusing when a missile comes flying toward you -- do you or do you not use
the +2 Sig you installed with passive thermal masking against this or that
missile?
The RBB says missiles have "multi-seeker" warheads. I'd say this means
something like "they home on IR, laser designator, radar, and sound all at
once." How the hell do you defeat a missile like that? (Short of strapping a
Goalkeeper to the roof of your car :)
You drop chaff, the missile still locks onto your exhaust, and so on. My
ruling would be that "ECM" simply covers all available means of defeating
missiles -- chaff, flares, RAM, active jamming, etc. etc.
Of course the answer is that it's simply the easy way out for FASA... :)

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