Missile countermeasures

TSeeker — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:24:46 +0000

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?

Missiles

TSeeker — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:34:07 +0000

Missiles are projectiles containing both a propulsion system, a guidance system and some explosive materials. While they inflict quite a lot of damage, missiles are usually bulky, and they can be stopped using appropriate countermeasures.

Some missiles exist in different variants, depending on their guidance and propulsion systems. This is not the case for all missiles, as some of them really require advanced automation or powerful engines, while others are really too basic to be worth an upgrade.

The type of guidance system can be either automaton (A), which is the most basic, intelligent (I), where the missile uses artificial intelligence up to a “human” cognition level, or Hyperturing (H), where the missile is actually much more intelligent than you.

Propulsion systems for missiles include chemical propulsion (C), which is the most basic, ion drive (D) and graviton drive (G).

Cluster missiles	A+C
Devastator missiles	A+C / A+D
Tactical nuclear missiles	A+C / A+D
Annihilator missiles	I+C / I+D
Anti-matter torpedoes	I+D / I+G
Quantum torpedoes	I+G / H+G
Subspace torpedoes	H+G

Do you have other ideas of missiles?

Do you have other ideas of missile guidance systems? Do you have other ideas of missile propulsion systems?

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