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Granted this works only for active radar-guided missiles, but those can easily be detected by their radar shining right at you. Maybe all the missiles in sci-fi
by lolc 7y ago
Granted this works only for active radar-guided missiles, but those can easily be detected by their radar shining right at you. Maybe all the missiles in sci-fi are radar-guided?
- Chris2048 7y agoThey "lock on" before the missile if fired.
- lolc 7y agoHow would the target know it was locked upon?
- Chris2048 7y agoThat's my point. Maybe a notification protocol? Seems to be used as a warning sometimes..
- lolc 7y agoAh sorry I misunderstood your comment. I thought you wanted to say it was obvious for the target to know. Haha yes a notification protocol would be a weird thing to have. It would be gamed the millisecond things went beyond friendly warnings.
- saberdancer 7y agoOthers have already commented, but normal surveillance radar is like a spotlight from the tower. It goes around and scans the area. If they determine that you are important, the radar can "lock on" to you which means that it will no longer scan around but would shine the light on you constantly. If they want to shoot at you, they turn on another even stronger more focused light to improve accuracy. Military today have ability to detect enemy targetting radars and when they lock on so having such a thing in SciFi does not seem strange to me.
- magduf 7y agoThe same way they do now: by detecting whatever the attacker is using to sense and target them. Today, that's usually radar. In sci-fi, maybe it's tachyon beams or something.
- Nasrudith 7y agoAside from detecting any guidance signal the trajectory changing towards them is a giveaway that it is homing and not just a dumb projectile that they are in the path of.
- jaywalk 7y agoBy seeing a constant high-energy radar signal, which would distinguish it from surveillance radar.
- radu_floricica 7y agoOr they have behavioral analysis AI that can tell when a missile is "locked" on target.