Well, I'm newbie also and I've already tried to use a missile in one of my ships...total failure...even when launching them on fighters that comes directly to me and at less than 100m of distance, and launching 2 missiles at the same time, they were successful on getting the enemy just about 10% of the time. Countermeasure should work when I launch a missile being at their "6", not then I am at their "12" and just some meters ahead...so I decided to don't use them!:P
