Were all-aspect heat seekers available at TL6? Usually, from memory anyway, heat seekers of that era are not all aspect and must be fired from the back third or quarter of the target, which implies that it can't track something that isn't radiating in strong contrast to the background in MWIR. Traveller ships may not be radiating from one particular point, but instead radiate throughout the entire skin of the spacecraft at much lower power per area and more critically, more in the LWIR rather than MWIR.
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On 2/5/2018 4:28 PM, Timothy Collinson wrote:
am I right in thinking that at that TL, they're heat seeking - does
that work with Traveller ships? I know TML has lots of discussion
about waste heat in space but for this purpose?
For man launched? Yes. It should, especially if the ship is moving.