Approved Tech Breshig War Forge Consolidated Striilir-M-class Brilliant Missile

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION​

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PRODUCTION INFORMATION​

• Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
• Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and Strill Securities.
• Material: Duranium frame, reflec laced fiberplast, duraplast reinforcements and missile parts.
• Modularity: Can be equipped with either an ion or baradium charge. The warheads are easily changed even in the field. Missiles ship with both warheads.

SPECIAL FEATURES​

• Explosive Type: Variable Baradium charge/Variable Ion charge.
• Targeting Mode(s):
  • Surface-to-Surface: Surface-to-surface targeting mode covers engaging of targets on the ground by ground-based launch platforms.
  • Sur-face-to-Air (Low Flying): Surface-to-air targeting mode covers engaging of low-flying targets by ground-based launch platforms.
• Guidance Mode(s):
  • Active Homing:
    • Pre-launch: The missile downloads sensor data, targeting and tracking information of the target as well as the IFF codes of all friendly assets in the area from the launch platform before launching.
    • Launch: The missile acquires a sensor lock on target and begins accelerating toward the target.
    • Midcourse: Using active sensor and scanner data from its own sensors, the missile determines how best to approach the target. At this stage, the missile can switch to Home on Jam mode if the amount of interference is too high such that it loses its original target. If there is no interference yet the missile has lost track of its target, the missile will revert to Inertial Guidance. The presence of hostile point-defense is also checked for, determining what if any terminal phase maneuvering the missile carries out.
    • Terminal: The missile expends the remainder of its fuel in a sustained high energy acceleration toward the target.
  • Control Guidance:
    • Pre-launch: The missile downloads sensor data, targeting and tracking information of the target as well as the IFF codes of all friendly assets in the area from the launch platform before launching.
    • Midcourse: The missile receives updated targeting and tracking information from the launching platform via an encrypted frequency hopping comms link. Using active sensor and scanner data from the launch platform, the missile determines how best to approach the target. Detonation mode and exact flight path can still be programmed by the launching platform, however. The presence of hostile point-defense is also checked for by the missile's sensors, determining what if any terminal phase maneuvering the missile carries out, though the launch platform can change this at any point during the midcourse phase. If at any point in the midcourse phase the missile loses communications with the launch platform, it reverts to home on jam guidance.
    • Terminal: The missile expends the remainder of its fuel in a sustained high energy acceleration toward the target.
  • Home on Jam:
    • Midcourse: If the missile switches to home on jam targeting during the midcourse phase, it will identify the strongest source of electronic interference that does not bare a friendly IFF signature and locks onto it.
  • Waypoint:
    • Pre-launch: The missile downloads the waypoints, detonation location and mode as well as a sensor map of the area of the flight path charted out by the set of waypoints.
    • Midcourse: The missile follows the waypoints using its own sensors to path find.
    • Terminal: On reaching the final waypoint the missile expends the remainder of its fuel in a sustained high energy acceleration toward the detonation location.
  • Waypoint Search and Destroy: Functions precisely the same as the waypoint mode with the exception that once it has reached the final waypoint the missile attempts to locate a hostile target. Following acquisition of said target, the missile will enter the terminal phase. This terminal phase is the same as the Waypoint guidance mode's.
  • Inertial Guidance: Utilizing a laser gyroscope system to calculate distance travelled, the missile checks it against the previously computed distance to target and then initiates detonation once the missile has reached that distance.
  • Salvo Mode: When fired in Active Homing or Waypoint mode or if the missile switches to home on jam and salvo mode is enabled, a 'predesignated' missile will network with the other missiles launched to share data for a better sensor picture and will additionally assess the targets in the area and assign targeting including of subcomponents such as individual batteries or exposed communications equipment on capital ships and stations. Alternatively, this missile can relay this information back to the launch platform if in range, and can receive targeting priority from it.
• Launch Mode(s):
  • Standard Launch: If not loaded into a mass-driver missile launcher, the missile can still be launched normally.
    • Hot: The container's gasses are vented and the missile's engines are activated straight away following the pre-launch sequence.
    • Cold: The missile is cold launched from it's container out of the tube using gas expansion before the missile's engines are activated.
  • Magnetically Accelerated Launch:
    • Hot: The missile is magnetically accelerated out of the launch tube and then immediately activates its engines.
    • Cold: The missile relies on initial launch velocity from the magnetic launch system to close the distance during the launch and mid course phase before activating its engines on full burn in the terminal phase.
• Detonation Mode(s):
  • Airburst: The missile detonates above the target for a more even effect on target whilst also being theoretically less impeded by obstacles.
  • Proximity: The missile detonates while the target is in the missile's blast radius.
  • Impact: When set to detonate on impact, the warhead detonates as a shaped charge in the case of the Baradium charge or a focused ion energy blast in the case of the ion charge.
  • Post Terminal Self-destruct: If for whatever reason the missile does not detonate once the terminal phase boost is complete, it will detonate automatically at that point.
• 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.
  • Dedicated Energy Receptor
  • Electro Photoreceptor
  • Long-range Heat Detector
  • Long-range Energy Scanner
  • Magnetic Signature Sensor
  • Gravity-wave Anomaly Tracker
  • Silhouette Signature Tracking
  • Countermeasures Compensation Computer: The C3 analyzes any countermeasures the target deploys, such as jamming, "dummy" drones, flares or chaff, and predicts the target's path. The C3 continues to make minor adjustments up to the microsecond before the missile impacts.
• Propulsion and Maneuvering:
  • TibannaX burning IR suppressed thrust trace dampened vectral equipped ion-atmospheric hybrid drive w/ scramjet booster
  • Etheric rudder(s)
• Security:
  • Tamper Detection: Any attempt to reprogram the missile including through the use of Mechu Deru and similar abilities will result in the missile either triggering a micro-ion charge to fry its own circuits.
• Defenses:
  • Combat De-ionizer
• Communications Suite:
  • Encryption/Decryption Suite
    • Comm Unit Scrambler
    • Communication Wave Descrambler
    • Encryption Module
  • Location Spoofing/Scrambling:
    • Ion Scrambler
  • 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.
    • Comm Unit
    • Comm Laser

STRENGTHS​

• Jammer/Countermeasure Resistant: The missile uses a composite sensor picture generated by cross checking data from its array of advanced sensors, scanners and tracking systems. This, combined with the countermeasures compensation computer drastically reduces the missiles vulnerability to jammers and countermeasures.
• Missile Deactivation Transmitter Immune: Once armed and active, there is no way to shut off the missile. Missile deactivation transmitters therefore cannot shut off the missile once it has been launched.
• Home on Jam: While certainly highly resistant to jamming, these missiles certainly are not immune to jamming. They possess a home on jam function that locks onto the strongest source of electronic interference that does not bare a friendly IFF signature
• Low Profile: With a reflec laced fiberplast exterior, etheric rudders and an IR suppressed thrust trace dampened vectral-equipped ion-atmospheric hybrid drive burning TibannaX, the missile has a very low sensor signature, especially when performing a magnetically accelerated cold launch.
• Excellent Sensors, Scanners and Tracking: The missile possesses a wide variety of sensors, scanners and tracking systems, giving it a fantastic ability to detect and track targets.
• Fast and Nimble: The missile has both the speed and maneuverability to effectively engage nimble ground targets, such as repulsor craft.
• Resilient: The missile's frame allows it to weather light point-defense fire and direct-attack countermeasures.
• Lethal Blast (Baradium Warhead): The missile a lethal explosive radius of 6 meters. It has an extremely high damage potential, capable of vaporizing objects within its effective radius form the sheer energy release, and causing intense concussive damage to anything out to 12 meters.
• Powerful Ion Charge: The grenade's ion charge is notably high output one, capable of disabling electronics, droids and even some vehicles out to six meters either temporarily or permanently.
• Focused Blast: The impact mode for both warheads is an incredibly powerful directed blast easily capable of dealing damage past armor and doing significant damage to shields, considerably more so than the 'blast' detonation modes.

WEAKNESSES​

• Not Stealth: Though possessing an extraordinarily small sensor profile for something of its size, the missile is in fact entirely detectable by particularly advanced military grade sensor suites, especially those that cross check data from different sensor and scanner systems such as the missile's own.
• Size Limitations: The missile's size and weight limit how many can be carried, especially by smaller launch platforms such as air speeders and starfighters.
• Big Target: While difficult to detect and target, the missile is large making it that much easier to neutralize with AoE weapons such as flak batteries.
• Home on Jam: While the missiles home on jam capability does give it the capability to not be rendered useless by such systems, it can cause the missile to potentially lose track of its original target, such as in the case that the source of that jamming stems from another target entirely.
• Sensor Range (Control Guidance mode): The missile's range is very much affected by the range and resolution of the sensor suite of the launch platform.
• Volatile (Baradium Warhead): Baradium is a volatile substance, stray rounds and the like can set off the grenades prematurely.
• Protected: The Ion warhead is naturally notably less effective against targets that are protected against Ion weapons. This includes but is not limited to targets with combat deionizers, those with ionic or molecular shielding and those with reinforced duraplast armor.

DESCRIPTION​

The Striilir-M is essentially an updated version of the Striilir made using the new series of missiles which are based on a scaled down version of the framework used for the company's larger concussion missile equivalent and assault-grade ordnance. This gives it an extremely impressive speed and maneuverability, a low sensor signature and notably excellent detection, targeting and tracking capabilities even over its predecessor which already had these qualities in spades.​

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The missile's active homing mode is a true fire and forget mode, and the missile will not only doggedly and accurately track its designated target and can rapidly adapt to changing battlefield circumstances, such as an increase in electronic noise or jamming. Should this cause the missile to lose lock, the missile will instead reacquire a lock on the source of said interference, assuming it does not have a friendly IFF and will instead track and engage said target. This does have the side effect of potentially causing it to lose its original target.​

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Given the sheer expense and lack of practicality in fitting a starship equivalent sensor system into a missile of this size, the new missile framework features a control guidance mode for the missile, wherein the missile receives updated targeting and tracking information from the launching platform midcourse via an encrypted frequency hopping comms link. This allows the missile to acquire and track targets that it would not normally be able to, provided of course that its launch platform can.​

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There are cases however where the launch platform does not have sensor coverage of a particular sector of the grid. The new framework removes the necessity of having to perform manned or unmanned reconnaissance or even having to rely on more esoteric means. In waypoint search and destroy mode, the missile can be tasked to follow waypoints to said location and then acquire, track and engage targets in said location. Alternatively waypoint mode can be used to guide the missiles and their considerable payloads to area targets.​

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Adding tot he missile's capabilities is its salvo mode. When fired in Active Homing or Waypoint mode or if the missile switches to home on jam and salvo mode is enabled, a 'predesignated' missile will network with the other missiles launched to share data for a better sensor picture and will additionally assess the targets in the area and assign targeting including of subcomponents such as individual batteries or exposed communications equipment on capital ships and stations. Alternatively, this missile can relay this information back to the launch platform if in range, and can receive targeting priority from it.​

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The missile has a lot of advanced hardware to back up its advanced programming. The sensor, sensor and tracking suite features a number of advanced systems including but not limited to a gravity wave anomaly tracker, silhouette signature tracker and a countermeasures compensation computer. The missile's frame is made from Duranium and features reinforced Duraplast reinforcements and a combat de-ionizer, making it notably restant for a missile to incoming damage from point-defense weapons and direct-attack countermeasures.​

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The entire frame however is covered in reflec laced fiberplast. This combined with the missile's TibannaX burning IR suppressed thrust trace dampened vectral equipped ion-atmospheric hybrid drive and etheric rudders gives the missile a very small sensor signature. Though possessing an extraordinarily small sensor profile for something of its size, the missile is in fact entirely detectable by particularly advanced military grade sensor suites, especially those that cross check data from different sensor and scanner systems such as the missile's own.​

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A variable detonation mode modular missile with a choice of either a baradium or ion warhead, however, is a lethally versatile tool that would be of great use to a soldier in the chaos of the modern battlefield to such a degree that its flaws are easily overlooked.​

 

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Shuklaar Kyrdol

As usual, amazing sub.

Approved.