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-The signature radius of your ship represents how large your ship is and, therefore, how difficult it is to hit with a weapon and to lock on to. You can find the signature radius of your ship under Show Info &gt; Attributes &gt; Targeting. Basically, a smaller signature radius makes you more difficult to hit and lock on to.
+The signature radius of your ship represents how large the electronic footprint of your ship is. While the signature radius does not describe how big the ship appears visually, most other aspects are governed by the signature size of the ship.
+The signature radius is, all intents and purposes how "big" on somebody else sensors. While ship size and signature radius general correspond (a frigate is smaller and has a smaller signature radius then a battleship), this is not necessarily true for all situations. In particular Tech II ships can have a very different signature size, even if they use the same hull size as their Tech I counterpart.
+Important affects of the signature radius are:
+* How much damage is taken from missiles, turrets and bombs (in oppose to smartbombs, which are not affected).
+* How fast your ship can be targeted
+* How easy it is to find it with combat probes.
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