Right, you’re going to need to bare with me because I don’t actually know the appropriate names for the parts of a ship, so I’m going to just call them whatever lol.
so on Jinnah/Babur, we have 12-16 gws26 at the front, in front of the superstructure. The Ukrainians, did not do this, their version has 2x4 vls at the back of the ship, without cutting into the hull, it’s almost like a mk56 vls setup, where it’s not baked into the hull, but is sort of an add on, granted, in the Ukrainian ships it’s attached to the structures of the ship. I will attach a photo below. Of course, if space was the biggest issue, why wouldn’t they just get a 4 cell SYLVER set up and cram 16 camm-er in there, I suspect, the original plan was SYLVER, 16 cells, which would have meant 64 missiles, but in the end, the french denied us, meaning we had to go for the worst of the worst option, gws, which meant we are heavily limited in our load out, capping us at 1 per cell, vs 4 per cell like ExLS, mk41 or some SYLVER would allow. Though, as I mentioned above, we might have been able to cram an additional 12 cells towards the back of the ship, where the Ukrainians have theirs, allowing for 24 missiles.
Disturb me all you want, I’m happy to explain
Missiles don’t follow, rather, they meet you at a given way point, adjusting their course on the way there to ensure there is an optimum intercept point. You don’t need to stop anything, you fire on the go as your self defence missile will do the exact same, it will calculate an optimum point of interception using its own, or off board guidance, to then destroy the inbound missile. But yeah, you can defeat a missile kinematically by bleeding all of its energy, however, most anti ship missiles are powered until the very end, so it’s unlikely you can do so, this also paired with the fact that ships are slow and can’t evade as well as a plane (I don’t really want to expand on that so I’ve left it really simplified lol), defeating an AShM kinematically is rare unless you’re a small fast manueverable boat, like the azmat class fac. But nah, you manuevering will have little to no effect on interception, missiles are smart, they don’t need input from the launcher*, they’ll do all of the work themselves