> On Mar 15, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Let's say you have a  "broadside" of 100 missiles, and you have an
> expectation of a 10% hit rate with normal missiles.
>
> If the fancy missiles raise that to a 20% hit rate, you've (sort of)
> added another ship to your side.

In a “No Shipkiller Energy Weapons” regime, there will be multi-layered attack strategies.

Send out a shipkiller or three (or a dozen) with clouds of smaller missiles to serve as decoys, countermeasure sponges and sensor scrapers on the opposing ships.

(note, this is essentially what transpires in “Space Viking”, if you go back and re-read the battle scenes).

Again in a NSEW environment, missile design and varieties will be enormously different than it is in a SEW environment.

It’s not going to be a matter of just lobbing a crapton of missiles at the other guy.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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