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* ECCM Projectors - These allow other people to remotely project ECCM support on to your ship. A Tech 1 Meta 0 ECCM Projector increases your sensor strength by 100%.

== Advanced ~~ECM~~ tactics ==

== Flying ECM: Targets ==

Unless you only have one or two enemies, judging which enemy you should try to jam is an important decision. Your Fleet Commander may tell you to jam a particular target or even appoint an ewar target caller, in which case you should obviously follow their orders. However, most FCs, most of the time, will not issue specific orders for their ECM ships, leaving the decision to you.

Often, particularly when you're in a large fleet, the primary target called by the FC for the damage-dealers is not the best ship to jam, since hopefully it will die soon anyway. Instead you should quickly look at what the enemy have and find some good targets for ECM.

If there are other ECM pilots in your fleet it can be useful to coordinate with them so that you don't waste time jamming the same target several times over. In a small fleet you might report your jams textually in the fleet chat channel, or even over TS if the FC is running the fleet with an open TS channel. In a large fleet you could try setting up a separate ewar chat channel for ewar pilots.

Here are some ships that often make good ECM targets.

==== Logistics ships ====

[[Cruiser#Logistics|Logistics ships]] are T2 cruisers which can rapidly repair their allies' shields or armor. With sensor strengths ranging from 17 to 22 they aren't the easiest ships to jam, but if you do jam one it won't be able to heal the rest of the enemy gang for twenty seconds. Some gangs depend mostly on their logistics ship(s) for their tank, so this can be a battle-changing move.

The four logistics ships are the Amarr [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Guardian Guardian], Caldari [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Basilisk Basilisk], Gallente [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Oneiros Oneiros] and Minmatar [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Scimitar Scimitar].

==== RR battleships ====

A remote-repping battleship gang is a group of battleships which tank by repairing each other with repairers in their spare high slots. This means that, much like logistics ships, they're vulnerable to jamming.

The Gallente [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Dominix Dominix] is a particularly high priority ECM target in an enemy RR battleship fleet: it usually does damage using drones, which means all or most of its highslots can be dedicated to remote repairers.

==== Ewar ====

If the enemy have their own ewar ships it can be useful to jam them. This goes especially for enemy ECM ships. Equally, of course, electronic warfare ships and especially ECM ships have high sensor strengths for their hull size.

==== Damage dealers ====

If you don't see any stand-out targets, like logistics ships, jamming enemy damage-dealers is probably a safe decision. This usually means [[Battleship|battleships]] and [[Battlecruiser|battlecruisers]] but the enemy might field a fast-moving gang of smaller ships. The T2 cruiser-sized [[Cruiser#Heavy Assault Ships|heavy assault cruisers]] and frigate-sized [[Frigate#Assault Ships|assault ships]] are noteworthy smaller damage-dealers, and they don't have very high sensor strengths.

If you're flying a Blackbird, Scorpion or Kitsune you will have a long enough range that you will be one of the few ships in the fleet that might be able to counter enemy snipers. The Blackbird and Kitsune should have a decent chance to jam sniper HACs, and the Scorpion should have a decent chance to jam sniper battleships. (This is where a Targeting Range script can come in useful if you fitted a Sensor Booster.)

== Flying ECM: Advanced tactics ==

=== Never activate all of your ECM modules on a target at the same time ===

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 * ECCM Projectors - These allow other people to remotely project ECCM support on to your ship. A Tech 1 Meta 0 ECCM Projector increases your sensor strength by 100%.
-== Advanced ECM tactics ==
+== Flying ECM: Targets ==
+Unless you only have one or two enemies, judging which enemy you should try to jam is an important decision. Your Fleet Commander may tell you to jam a particular target or even appoint an ewar target caller, in which case you should obviously follow their orders. However, most FCs, most of the time, will not issue specific orders for their ECM ships, leaving the decision to you.
+Often, particularly when you're in a large fleet, the primary target called by the FC for the damage-dealers is not the best ship to jam, since hopefully it will die soon anyway. Instead you should quickly look at what the enemy have and find some good targets for ECM.
+If there are other ECM pilots in your fleet it can be useful to coordinate with them so that you don't waste time jamming the same target several times over. In a small fleet you might report your jams textually in the fleet chat channel, or even over TS if the FC is running the fleet with an open TS channel. In a large fleet you could try setting up a separate ewar chat channel for ewar pilots.
+Here are some ships that often make good ECM targets.
+==== Logistics ships ====
+[[Cruiser#Logistics|Logistics ships]] are T2 cruisers which can rapidly repair their allies' shields or armor. With sensor strengths ranging from 17 to 22 they aren't the easiest ships to jam, but if you do jam one it won't be able to heal the rest of the enemy gang for twenty seconds. Some gangs depend mostly on their logistics ship(s) for their tank, so this can be a battle-changing move.
+The four logistics ships are the Amarr [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Guardian Guardian], Caldari [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Basilisk Basilisk], Gallente [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Oneiros Oneiros] and Minmatar [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Scimitar Scimitar].
+==== RR battleships ====
+A remote-repping battleship gang is a group of battleships which tank by repairing each other with repairers in their spare high slots.  This means that, much like logistics ships, they're vulnerable to jamming.
+The Gallente [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Dominix Dominix] is a particularly high priority ECM target in an enemy RR battleship fleet: it usually does damage using drones, which means all or most of its highslots can be dedicated to remote repairers.
+==== Ewar ====
+If the enemy have their own ewar ships it can be useful to jam them. This goes especially for enemy ECM ships. Equally, of course, electronic warfare ships and especially ECM ships have high sensor strengths for their hull size.
+==== Damage dealers ====
+If you don't see any stand-out targets, like logistics ships, jamming enemy damage-dealers is probably a safe decision. This usually means [[Battleship|battleships]] and [[Battlecruiser|battlecruisers]] but the enemy might field a fast-moving gang of smaller ships. The T2 cruiser-sized [[Cruiser#Heavy Assault Ships|heavy assault cruisers]] and frigate-sized [[Frigate#Assault Ships|assault ships]] are noteworthy smaller damage-dealers, and they don't have very high sensor strengths.
+If you're flying a Blackbird, Scorpion or Kitsune you will have a long enough range that you will be one of the few ships in the fleet that might be able to counter enemy snipers. The Blackbird and Kitsune should have a decent chance to jam sniper HACs, and the Scorpion should have a decent chance to jam sniper battleships. (This is where a Targeting Range script can come in useful if you fitted a Sensor Booster.)
+== Flying ECM: Advanced tactics ==
 === Never activate all of your ECM modules on a target at the same time ===