Mav Boresight Issues
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Hi, Boresight procedure isn’t critical if you don’t use the TGP Handoff functionality. Without Boresight the Maverick will look at a different position than the SPI (the gap is random) but if it’s not critical then u can use it still and it has nothing to do with missing Mavericks.
Other than that, what Darkman said above should work fine.
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absolutely not sure about this, but isn’t the boresight operative ONLY for the pylon you boresighted ? As such, the first 2 mavs you launch from one pylon are correctly set but every other might be wrong and you should then boresight them ?
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The launcher, yes. So with a typical loadout of AGM-65s on stations 3 and 7 the first 2 missiles you fire should be 1 from each launcher, unless you override this order with MSL STEP after you’ve fired the first one.
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absolutely not sure about this, but isn’t the boresight operative ONLY for the pylon you boresighted ? As such, the first 2 mavs you launch from one pylon are correctly set but every other might be wrong and you should then boresight them ?
Again, Boresight procedure has NOTHING to do with missing Mavericks. Boresight will correct the optical error that is introduced from the loading of the missile on the rack, but it’s not a must, you can still lock the missile and fire it in any mode regardless of Boresight procedure, as long as the launch is done correctly. The only thing that will probably not work without Boresighting is Handoff from TGP, because there is a video missalignment between the Missile and the TGP and so Handoff will fail. The other unwanted result is that the missile camera will not point EXACTLY to the SPI position, but that isn’t a condition to a successful lock and launch.
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absolutely not sure about this, but isn’t the boresight operative ONLY for the pylon you boresighted ? As such, the first 2 mavs you launch from one pylon are correctly set but every other might be wrong and you should then boresight them ?
In BMS there is only angle error in the LAU/STA interface. When you align one Maverick from a LAU-88A then this calibration value is equally correct for all Mavericks on that launcher (station).
In reality I do not know the case if sub-station calibration is carried out per missile, calibration error within a single station is insignificant and thus not done, or if bore sighting must be done per station depending on the next missile to be launched (only one station calibration value but significant error exists between missiles on a single launcher). LAU-88 use is so rare.
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In BMS there is only angle error in the LAU/STA interface. When you align one Maverick from a LAU-88A then this calibration value is equally correct for all Mavericks on that launcher (station).
In reality I do not know the case if sub-station calibration is carried out per missile, calibration error within a single station is insignificant and thus not done, or if bore sighting must be done per station depending on the next missile to be launched (only one station calibration value but significant error exists between missiles on a single launcher). LAU-88 use is so rare.
On a LAU-88A/A, only one missile ( the priority missile) per launcher is boresighted.
BMS is correct -
weapon pointing cross stable (not flashing)
That was it. Must have been out of limits. Sorted now
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This is rare information but with several Maverick LAU-88A is next missile on rack likely to be “good enough” with previous boresight or is a follow up boresight needed?
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This is rare information but with several Maverick LAU-88A is next missile on rack likely to be “good enough” with previous boresight or is a follow up boresight needed?
As Leech already said, follow up Boresight isn’t necessary for every missile, BMS works correctly here…
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This is rare information but with several Maverick LAU-88A is next missile on rack likely to be “good enough” with previous boresight or is a follow up boresight needed?
OSB 20 (BSGT) sets a missile memory boresight with LAU-117s and LAU-88A/A stations.The memory boresight feature provides a boresight reference for all missiles on the launcher
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Yes, I realize that only one calibration value is stored per station. I wanted to ask in practice how consistent second, third missile is when first missile is calibrated properly. Is next missile perfect alignment using previous calibration or tiny bit off or larger?
I know in BMS 2nd, 3rd missile is perfect after 1st missile is boresighted. I mean instead about real life.
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Well this is what we say no? that the initial alignment is enough for the next missiles
I don’t know to tell you EXACTLY if there is maybe a minor missalignment but anyway it’s not something that is important enough to interfere with Handoff operation, for example, so I assume it’s very small and hence can be ignored.