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Old 06-23-2004, 18:05 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bigross86
For at least the last couple hundred miles the missile has to fly straight in to get to the ships. Not counting the pop-up manouver, that should make them very easy targets. Besides, All you need to do is drop a decent amount of cheff in their way about 100 miles off and they'll explode prematurely
There is no pop-ups anymore anywhere. For example look at the latest Harpoon's (first models were making it).
It was removed by simply modifying the flight-program.

About "chaff" and so on - modern missiles can identify Radar "profiles" of the targets and attack designated target in the group (At least "Granit" does that fro a long time already).
So simple chaff would not work.

Probably if there is IR seeker, it can provide IR "profile" too. But that is just my guess.

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