Service Date: 2650 (HS-V.21)

Length: 2 meters

Speed: 2000 k/s

Acceleration: 800 k/s²

Maneuverability: 80 dps

Duration: 10 sec

Lock Time: 2 sec

Penetration: 400

Information:

The Heat-Seeker (HS) is an inexpensive, simple weapon that has served in various forms for armed forces since the late 1900s. The engines of fighters and capital ships generate significant heat, a fact that the HS uses to its advantage.

Heat-Seekers are the most common missile carried on fighters. The operation is simple - the missile tracks down the thermal signature of the target's engines. Its most limiting factor is its rear-aspect tracking mechanism, which requires the lock to be acquired from the rear. A second drawback is that the missile locks onto the nearest heat source, whether it be friendly or enemy.

Velocity: 2800

Acceleration: 3200

Duration: 10

Lock Time: 0.8

Lock Range: 8000

Damage: 400

Max Yaw: 160

Max Pitch: 140

Refire Delay: 2.0

Spoof %: 50

Information:

Requires less circuitry than the image-recognition and friend-or-foe missiles and packs more of a punch. However, if this missile loses its lock it will not reacquire another target. This munition is best used when you're on the nemy's six, since his heat signature is usually strongest at the rear of his ship.