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Well that depends on which c-ram system you are talking about, because there are different types of C-ram systems out there, and even more if you consider those who are currently under development.
But generally speaking, those system usally consists of a few main systems working together in sync, and those are:
radar which identify the launch or the flight of the enemy rocket/missle/drone/shell, a computer then calculates the flight path its going to take, and also at least in some systems like israel’s iron dome it also knows approximately where its going to hit, That’s to asses how dangerous it is, because if its going to land in the middle of a desert its not worth interception (which can be costly).
Then the next step is using an interceptor, this can be a missile that explodes near it (and thefore blows it up in the air), or heavy round bullets that directly hit it, or an high energy laser that heats it up to explosion.
Those interceptors hit the hostile target or close enough to it by going to where its going to be in a given point in time (according to the flight route the computer of the system calculated) and correctly timing the interceptor.
There are also different developments on c-ram counter measure to overwhelm those systems.
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