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== Missile Fire Controls ==

By changing the project type to Missile Fire Control, you build a Missile Fire Control (MFC). It is designed like active sensors, but is unable to detect targets. It emits a concentrated beam of radiation to "illuminate" a target and direct missiles to them. Because of this concentrated beam it has triple the strength of a similar-sized search sensor.

In order to fire [[Missiles]], a fleet must be able to both detect the target and send missiles against it — in other words, you need both an active sensor and a missile fire control. The active sensor may be located anywhere, and a whole fleet can use detection data provided by a single active sensor. Conversely, fire control is ''not'' shared between ships, and every missile-equipped ship (even one as small as a fighter) must have a missile fire control capable of illuminating its target in order to fire at that target.

Missiles may be fired at a waypoint without need for a missile fire control, but in general this is only useful for missiles with built-in sensors (either to target themselves, or to act as sensor drones).