Editing VB-Missiles (section)

===Range===
As mentioned before, ranges of missile and fire controls should be in the same ballpark. You can try to plan ahead, though: If you know your next generation of grav sensors and therefore improved fire controls will be around in a few months and increase range by 50% for the same size, then you can give the missiles you design today that extra range.

====Opening and closing shots====
An opening missile shot is one where the target is moving away from your missile, opening the range. A closing shot is one where the target is closing the range instead. 

Imagine a missile with a range of 50m km and a speed of 15,000km/s. You fire a salvo at a target 40m km away which is running away from you at a speed of 5,000km/s. Your missiles will take 2666 seconds to reach the point ''where the target was when you fired''. Unfortunately, by then it is already 13.3m km further away; your salvo will run out of fuel and self-destruct. A fast missile moving at twice the speed would have reached the target instead.