X3: Albian Prelude

Missiles

Missiles are expendable munitions.

Attack missiles have a variety of properties:

Damage yield is the amount of damage inflicted on targets within the Area of Effect.
Range describes how far the missile can travel, generally you want to launch at targets well within range to compensate for target movement.
Speed describes how quickly it moves towards a target.
Cooldown describes how much time the launcher takes between firings to prepare the next launch.
Seeker determines how the missile acquires targets and when it may be fired: Targetted, requiring a target prior to launch or Autonomous which relies on the missile's onboard systems.
Swarming refers simply to missiles which release multiple warheads. There are always eight warheads released. Note: warhead behavior is detailed in other columns such as dumbfire, heat-seeking, etc.
Guidance determines how a missile tracks and follows targets: Heat seeking missiles will attempt to attack the nearest warm target, Image Recognition or Standard Guidance will follow a specific target primarily based on its appearance, Dumb-fire have no guidance at all and will travel in direction of launch without maneuvering relying on the pilot's intuition of target movement.
Fusing controls detonation, most missiles detonate when they impact a target. Proximity fusing will detonate when the missiles gets close enough to the target, generally once it's already missed impact and is getting farther away. A few missiles may be Manually Triggered to detonate remotely, also known as synaptic triggering.

Some missiles have extremely powerful detonations which affect large areas the size of this influence is noted by Area of Effect.

Name	Damage	Range	Speed	Swarm	Target	Guidance	Fusing
Banshee	74000	15	153	no	yes	standard	impact
TomahawkHvy	625000	43	196	no	no	standard	impact
Hornet	200000	31	186	no	yes	standard	impact
Thorn	15000	18	158	no	yes	standard	proximity
Typhoon	240000	75	195	yes	yes	standard	impact
FirestormTorp	1000000	99	165	no	no	standard	impact
HammerHvyTorp	300000	76	253	no	no	standard	proximity
FlailBarr	40000	58	486	yes	no	standard	impact
BoardingPod¹	0	77	480	no	yes	standard	impact
Poltergeist	12000	13	250	yes	no	standard	impact
Wraith	1000000	51	170	yes	yes	heat seeker	proximity
Spectre	260000	24	228	no	yes	heat seeker	proximity
Shadow	560000	81	245	yes	no	standard	proximity
Ghoul	52000	56	450	yes	no	standard	impact
Phantom	650000	53	212	no	no	standard	proximity
Sting	4000	40	257	no	yes	standard	proximity
Needle	7400	27	174	no	yes	standard	proximity
Windstalker	30000	22	179	no	no	dumbfire	synaptic
Wildfire	15000	33	246	no	no	standard	impact
Disruptor	6000	40	514	no	yes	standard	impact
Hammerhead	1200000	86	172	no	yes	standard	impact
Beluga	100000	90	211	no	yes	standard	impact
RemoteWarh	100000	80	142	no	no	standard	impact
Firefly	1500	25	576	no	no	dumbfire	proximity
Thunderbolt	75000	78	195	no	yes	heat seeker	impact
Aurora	8000	19	589	no	no	dumbfire	synaptic
Tornado	400000	25	312	yes	no	dumbfire	proximity
Cyclone	23000	60	148	no	yes	standard	proximity
Tempest	60000	62	195	no	no	standard	impact
Hurricane	6000	30	471	no	yes	standard	proximity
Sikworm	19000	28	190	no	yes	standard	impact
Mosquito	200	15	590	no	yes	standard	impact
Firelance	4500	50	500	no	no	dumbfire	proximity
Wasp	8000	18	560	yes	yes	standard	impact
Rapier	1000	100	657	no	yes	standard	impact
Dragonfly	5000	19	250	no	yes	standard	proximity

¹Boarding pods are a “missile” which delivers marines from the firing ship to the target.