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UEF T3 Strategic Missile Defense: Nuke Eliminator UEF T3 Strategic Missile Defense:  Nuke Eliminator
UEF T3 Strategic Missile Defense: Nuke Eliminator
Strategic missile defense. Protection is limited to the structure's operational area.[ e ]
Build costsEnergy icon -105000
Mass icon -7500
Time icon 4500
Build rate
Time icon1080/s
Max healthHealth icon 3800
Intel (radius) Vision: 20
Weapon: AntiNuke
Defense - Anti Missile
Anti Missile damage 30
Range 90
Anti Missile cost Energy icon -360000 (-1500/s)
Mass icon -3600 (-15/s)
Time icon 259200 (4:00s)

Cybran T3 Strategic Missile Defense: Guardian Cybran T3 Strategic Missile Defense:  Guardian
Cybran T3 Strategic Missile Defense: Guardian
Strategic missile defense. Protection is limited to the structure's operational area.[ e ]
Build costsEnergy icon -105000
Mass icon -7500
Time icon 4500
Build rate
Time icon1080/s
Max healthHealth icon 3800
Intel (radius) Vision: 20
Weapon: Dissident AntiNuke
Defense - Anti Missile
Anti Missile damage 30
Range 90
Anti Missile cost Energy icon -360000 (-1500/s)
Mass icon -3600 (-15/s)
Time icon 259200 (4:00s)

Aeon T3 Strategic Missile Defense: Patron Aeon T3 Strategic Missile Defense:  Patron
Aeon T3 Strategic Missile Defense: Patron
Strategic missile defense. Protection is limited to the structure's operational area.[ e ]
Build costsEnergy icon -105000
Mass icon -7500
Time icon 4500
Build rate
Time icon1080/s
Max healthHealth icon 3800
Intel (radius) Vision: 20
Defense - Anti Missile
Anti Missile damage 30
Range 90
Anti Missile cost Energy icon -360000 (-1500/s)
Mass icon -3600 (-15/s)
Time icon 259200 (4:00s)

Seraphim T3 Strategic Missile Defense: Ythisioz Seraphim T3 Strategic Missile Defense:  Ythisioz
Seraphim T3 Strategic Missile Defense: Ythisioz
Strategic missile defense. Protection is limited to the structure's operational area.[ e ]
Build costsEnergy icon -105000
Mass icon -7500
Time icon 4500
Build rate
Time icon1080/s
Max healthHealth icon 3800
Intel (radius) Vision: 20
Weapon: Hu AntiNuke
Defense - Anti Missile
Anti Missile damage 30
Range 90
Anti Missile cost Energy icon -360000 (-1500/s)
Mass icon -3600 (-15/s)
Time icon 259200 (4:00s)

The T3 strategic missile defense, SMD for short, are stationary structures launching ordinance to defeat incoming ICBMs directed towards the protected area.

SMDs are built in the same fashion as the SMLs, with both launcher and ammunition to be built. Once loaded, Defense Missiles are launched automatically as soon as a nuke enters range, however it still must be reloaded after use. Nukes, launched by the player or allies, will not be targeted.

Counter-nukes are visible on the map, abeit no audio cue, shown as a red no-entry symbol; notifiing the attacking commander that the target has active anti-nukes in the area.

It is a valuable defense if you're expecting heavy use of nuclear armaments and because SMDs are built and loaded faster than SMLs, alert ACUs may often so-called nuke-proof their bases. Furthermore, base size should be considered with building more than one SMDs, so that their range can cover the expanse of the facility; Preventing a shrewd commander from landing a precise strike on outlaying buildings.

Advanced[]

Anti-Nukes build faster than nukes, for far less resource investment and a single launcher can protect against multiple simultaneous nuclear threats. In-game multiplayer tests confirm that a single fully loaded launcher is able to shoot down up to 5 simultaneous nukes.

Forged Alliance[]

As far as factional differences go, the only notable one is the Aeon SMD. It is by far the best Strategic Missile Defense. It alone can shoot down up to 5 missiles at a time, as can be seen here, in the link below:

YouTube - SupCom FA - 5 nukes against 1 SMD

It is also worth noting that all five missiles in the video were launched directly at the SMD. If the final defensive missile had to travel to the strategic missile because it wasn't aimed at the SMD, the final nuke would likely have landed before interception was possible, given in the referenced video the SMD kills it with mere nanoseconds remaining. The extra time taken for the SMD missile to reach the missile when it is not coming directly towards the SMD would cause this. This is however, unconfirmed.

Again, there is a minor difference in maximum storage, UEF SMD - 5, Cybran - 10, Aeon - 8 and Seraphim - 7. Therefore, even the SMDs are fast enough to shoot down more than 5 missiles, the UEF SMD won't be able to shoot the 6th missile as it stores only 5 at all.

Vanilla[]

One SMD can shoot down two nukes in the time it takes them to go from descending to impact in non-FA Supreme Commander. Thus you will need (number of enemy SMDs * 2) + 1 simultaneously launched missiles (this is the key part - three missiles in a chain won't break through one SMD's defensive perimeter unless it lacks missiles!) to overwhelm enemy SMDs. Aeon SMDs can sometimes get lucky and shoot down three missiles, but this is generally rather rare. It'll probably be more effective to simply overwhelm the enemy with the troops you could've bought with the resources spent on the missiles, though it is a good way of proving a point when you have the resources to spare.

Multiplayer use[]

The use of multiple SMD's in multiplayer is due to the fact that the enemy will have to take out multiple of these vulnerable buildings, which when spaced apart makes this no simple job. Additionally, as discussed above, it is possible a SMD may be overwhelmed, whereas multiple SMD's can fire simultaneously at multiple strategic missiles. The buildpower of SMD's is very high in Forged Alliance, which means when expecting multiple nukes soon, it's best to have multiple SMD so they can all build missiles. The benefits of this are often outweighed by the cost of building the actual SMD building's themselves in the early endgame.

For more information on strategic warfare, see T3 strategic missile launcher.

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