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Most incoming fire trackers for infantry rely on acoustic sensors to follow
the Compressed sound waves to the source of the round. They are relatively
easy to baffle with preparation. The US army has some Hummers rigged up with
them in Bosnia to help with the sniper problem. Ship vs Ship combat in REAL
Life presents us with a nnumber of possible tactics if we assume sensors are
radar reliant instead of Gravitic reliant. (more reliable to see if that
moving object really IS 10,000MT mass as opposed to a painted balloon) but
really useful mass sensors are still a bit beyond our tech. If I were a
starship captain, I would have something similar to the Traveller Sandcasters
loaded with EM absorbent "stealth marbles" that would double as a radar
absorbent screen and a laser absorptive layer. If the RAM marbles are dense
enough it would also detonate incoming warheads. You then have "tethered
sensors" that you extend past the cloud to
localize your enemy. If the cloud is a halo 2-3 times the size of
your vessel, you simply shuttle back and forth within the coasting cloud,
making it harder to hit you. If you maneuver,you lose the cloud until it is
regenerated. A standoff nuke detonation could be
used to strip the cloud off a target vessel, with follow-on munitions
for target attack. Just my two pence........