Shuklaar Kyrdol
CEO of Breshig War Forge Consolidated
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a space saving form of new flare-like counter-measures that is a fusion of the real life incarnation and one of the in-universe versions.
- Image Source: N/A.
- Canon Link: Flare.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: Nano Missile, Flare.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
- Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and Strill Securities.
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: NF-01 Nano Flares.
- Modularity: Can be loaded into any compatible flare pod. Fully compatible with the CS-05 'Carud Dha'haase' Countermeasure Suite.
- Production: Minor.
- Material: Duranium frame, miscellaneous nano-missile components and Ultrachrome wires and electronics.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Nano-missile.
- Size: Small.
- Weight: Light.
- Explosive Type: High-yield Detonite Charge.
- Delivery Method: Self-Propelled.
- Effective Range: Personal.
- Area Of Effect: Personal.
- Damage Output: High.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Targeting Mode(s):
- Anti-missile: Anti-missile mode covers engaging of enemy missiles.
- Anti-starfighter: Anti-starfighter mode is backup mode engaged by the nano-flares if there are no hostile missiles in the vicinity on their release.
- Guidance Mode(s):
- Autonomous Active Swarm Guidance:
- Pre-launch: Prior to launch each nano-flare downloads targeting information of ordnance in the vicinity of the craft as well as starfighter targets.
- Launch: The nano-flares acquire a sensor lock on the various targets and network with each other to assign targets. Targets are chosen and assigned based on projected lethality based on a lethality matrix pre-programmed into the flare's computers. This matrix is based on parameters such as warhead weight, velocity and so on. If there are more nano-flares than would be required to destroy incoming ordnance, then the missiles not already assigned to incoming ordnance instead are assigned starfighter targets of opportunity in range.
- Midcourse: The flares check the initial target signature against the composite signature generated by their own sensors. Last minute course corrections and target reassignments based on changing battlefield corrections are handled at this stage.
- Terminal: The flares expend the remainder of their fuel in a high energy burn to intercept their target.
- Manual Target Selection:
- Pre-launch: Prior to launch the operator or the launcher (if it possesses automation features) selects how many of the nano-flares to deploy against incoming ordnance and assigns individual flares targets. The flares then download the target signatures.
- Launch: The nano-flares acquire a sensor lock on the various targets.
- Midcourse: The flares check the initial target signature against the composite signature generated by their own sensors.
- Terminal: The flares expend the remainder of their fuel in a high energy burn to intercept their target.
- Autonomous Active Swarm Guidance:
- Sensor, Scanner and Tracking Suite: The missile creates a composite sensor picture by cross checking data from all of its sensors when in guidance modes where it actively uses the to acquire/track targets.
- Communications Systems:
- Encryption/Decryption Suite
- Communications Suite: When connected to compatible systems, the communication suite is an auto-negotiating, frequency hopping system with a self-modulating encryption key, making it extremely resistant to jamming and interception. The comm-lasers can mimic this by rapidly shifting their broadcast spectrum.
- Encryption/Decryption Suite
- Heat Pod: Each nano-flare features an integrated heat pod that generates large amounts of heat and light generate heat to potentially blind heat sensor systems. These pods can be programmed to generate the exact same heat signature of the craft that they're deployed by.
STRENGTHS
- Smart Target Assignment: Rather than a standard flares that home in on ordnance without the aid of any advanced target assignment, the nano-flares are fully capable of target prioritization which enables them to potentially protect the launching craft from against the deadlier threat even if it is unable to neutralize all ordnance.
- Compact and Lightweight: The small size of the nano-flares allows a compatible countermeasures pod to store more nano-flares than their conventional counterparts.
- Deadly: The high-yield detonite charge utilized by the nano-flares packs a notable punch, giving it the ability to cause notable damage on target even when engaging starfighters.
- Decoy: The flare's head pod generates large amounts of heat and light as well as has the potential to match the heat signature of the craft is deployed by, making it an excellent decoy when used against ordnance that relies or primarily depends on a target's heat signature to track it.
WEAKNESSES
- Limited Range: These nano-flares have a limited range seeing as they're designed as warhead countermeasures rather than dedicated warhead interceptors.
- Limited Area of Effect: The nano-flare's small size limits the size of the warhead and thus limits the effective radius of the nano-flare.
- Sensors: Ordnance employing sensor fusion/composite sensors and/or ordnance that doesn't rely on a target's thermal signature to track it will be unaffected by the flare's secondary role as a decoy countermeasure.
DESCRIPTION
The nano-flare among other technologies recently developed by the company represent a further refinement of technology that has come from the company's R&D department now that the emergency state that it had been during and immediately following the collapse of the CIS was no longer active. Though more expensive than conventional flares the new nano-flares are considerably more efficient, reducing the number required to potentially successfully counter incoming ordnance.
Where the nano-flare diverges from conventional flares is in four key areas; size, weight, swarm active intelligence guidance and variable signature decoy capability. The small size and weight of the nano-flares enables a compatible countermeasures pod to store more nano-flares than conventional flares. The flare's swarm intelligence guidance allos for target prioritization which enables them to potentially protect the launching craft from against the deadlier threat even if it is unable to neutralize all ordnance. Finally, the lare's head pod generates large amounts of heat and light as well as has the potential to match the heat signature of the craft is deployed by, making it an excellent decoy when used against ordnance that relies or primarily depends on a target's heat signature to track it.
Flares, however, as decoys, don't tend to affect ordnance employing sensor fusion/composite sensors and/or ordnance that doesn't rely on a target's thermal signature for detection and tracking. Additionally, the flare's small form factor renders its range far shorter than dedicated interceptor missiles as well as necessitating that it pack a smaller but still very efficient warhead, sacrificing blast radius as compared to traditional flares.
