Missile countermeasures
Missile countermeasures come in various types and shapes; some will disrupt a missile’s guidance system while others will try to get a missile to explode before it can reach its target. Quite obviously, they protect ships against missiles.
Missile countermeasures come in three different types.
- Anti-missile weapon systems (AMWS) are weapons that try to shoot incoming missiles to destroy them; this type of countermeasure uses a lot of space on board.
- Electronic missile countermeasures (EMC) try to fool an incoming missile’s guidance system to prevent it from reaching its target. They are much smaller than anti-missile weapon systems, however they are very demanding on the ship’s generators.
- Physical missile countermeasures (PMC - for lack of a better name) use advanced knowledge of the universe’s structure to get rid of incoming missiles. While these systems use quite a lot of space and energy, they are more efficient than EMCs or AMWSs.
| Name | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Flak batteries | AMWS | Shoots explosive devices at short range to destroy incoming missiles. |
| Point defense missiles | AMWS | Uses smaller guided missiles to destroy incoming missiles. |
| AI laser turrets | AMWS | These AI-controlled turrets shoot incoming missiles using a high-energy laser beam. |
| Droid sentries | AMWS | Uses small flying robots that go after incoming missiles. |
| Guidance systems jammer | EMC | Tries to jam the incoming missile’s guidance system. |
| Shadows generator | EMC | Fools the incoming missile’s guidance system into thinking it’s going after many different targets. |
| Nanites fog | EMC | Generates a fog of nanites around the ship that will hack into incoming missiles to disable them. |
| Picotech fog | EMC | Upgrade from the above using picotech. |
| Layered gravity field | PMC | Modifies gravity in a thin layer of space around the ship, causing incoming missiles to detonate as they pass through. |
| Thin gravity field | PMC | Same as above but causing a stronger anomaly in a thinner layer of space. |
| Phase-shifting cannon | PMC | Cannon that shoots incoming missiles, making them shift out of phase with normal space. |
| Hyperspace projector | PMC | Cannon that sends incoming missiles into Hyperspace. |
Do you have other ideas of possible missile counter measures?
Do you have ideas of other categories of missile counter measures?
Lemorsa:
I think that these same ideas to protect a ship could be used against IPBM’s. Personally i think they sound pretty good. Kamikaze missiles for specific accuracy?
March 4, 2008, 10:02 pmju:
The principle being the same, the same kind of counter measures can be imagined, but of course with different names and characteristics, since the item to intercept is different.
March 5, 2008, 8:38 am