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In most cases both targeting and jam range (as it lets you stay on the field longer) is more helpful than jam strength. These skills will improve your EWAR effectiveness when flying a Griffin. In any case, it is important to make the ship’s lock range much longer than its ECM modules’ optimal range, to maximize the practical operating range of the ship. Rigs can be used to extend the Griffin’s base lock range, or its ECM range, or both.
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(You may choose to fit weapons in the high slots, but you will probably never use them.) By contrast, the Griffin is not commonly fit for tank or weapons, because it can’t survive short-range combat. One or two signal distortion amplifiers also increase the Griffin’s chance to jam. Unless the ECM target is known in advance of fitting, Griffins are normally fit with a “rainbow” of racially specific ECM modules, to maximize the chance of jamming a variety of racial ship targets. One way to do this is to use racially specific, rather than multispectral, ECM modules. As a result, the Griffin is typically fit to maximize ECM success. Even with this bonus, however, ECM modules still miss more often than they hit. The Griffin receives a bonus to ECM module strength per level of Caldari Frigate, which has a significant impact on ECM effectiveness. The Griffin also provides excellent training for more advanced ECM ships, like the Blackbird, Falcon and Scorpion. As a result, new Unistas can have an immediate, significant impact on fleet engagements by flying the Griffin. For new EVE players, flying the Griffin only requires training Caldari Frigate I, and no training at all for new Caldari pilots. This can reduce the damage directed at your fleet, prevent enemy logistics from providing remote support, and break warp disruption from tacklers, allowing an escape. ECM is often described as the most useful form of Electronic Warfare, in that it breaks enemy target locks and prevents the enemy from re-acquiring targets for 20 seconds. It is very frequently seen in E-UNI fleets. The Griffin is the Caldari Electronic Warfare Frigate, specializing in Electronic Countermeasures (ECM).