Harrier Mavs frustration!
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What you are doing wrong is that you are not actually designating/locking the last two MAVs…and I’m assuming you are using MAVG? Each weapon has to be locked and in the keyhole before launch - which is also why people that are ripple firing MAVG should only be getting one hit. If you lock the first weapon, step, and immediately pickle the next weapon should come off slaved, but not locked…and thus lost.
Unless you are firing laser MAVs the rule in RL is - one pass/one shot/one missile. Then lock the next target. NO ripple or rapid fire. Study vids of RL IMAV shots on u-toob and you’ll see what I mean.
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Thx Stevie - I understand the real life practice (although some threads have queried this), but it doesn’t explain why ripple firing seems possible with TGP. The way you’ve described it, shouldn’t the rippled Mavs therefore hit the first target? 2 of my Mavs always seem to fall short.
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But which two?
Stevie’s rant about this isn’t a good idea aside. The F-16 absolutely can have multiple Mavericks locked simultaneously and fire them in short order or even in pairs. By extension I assume the Harrier can as well. If you don’t get every missile guiding then something is wrong either in technique or the software.
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But which two?
Stevie’s rant about this isn’t a good idea aside. The F-16 absolutely can have multiple Mavericks locked simultaneously and fire them in short order or even in pairs. By extension I assume the Harrier can as well. If you don’t get every missile guiding then something is wrong either in technique or the software.
If you lock the target up, fire, and lock the next one up, assuming that you’re using Deltas with IR seekers, they should all hit if you get the stable, closed crosshairs. The Maverick is a fire-and-forget missile, so once it’s off the rail (excluding laser Mavs), it should guide all the way home on it’s own.
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But which two?
Stevie’s rant about this isn’t a good idea aside. The F-16 absolutely can have multiple Mavericks locked simultaneously and fire them in short order or even in pairs. By extension I assume the Harrier can as well. If you don’t get every missile guiding then something is wrong either in technique or the software.
Having had experience with RL Harriers, I can tell you - NO - they can’t.
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Thx Stevie - I understand the real life practice (although some threads have queried this), but it doesn’t explain why ripple firing seems possible with TGP. The way you’ve described it, shouldn’t the rippled Mavs therefore hit the first target? 2 of my Mavs always seem to fall short.
Actually, the only MAV that makes any sense to ripple is the laser guided one, and even then that is very poor use of the weapon. One MAV, one tank. If more damage is required you use something else. Remember - each weapon has to be locked manually, otherwise the are only in slave mode…and they’ll just go where they go. When you handoff only the first weapon under trigger is actually locked.
This is one of those “know what you’re doing” things…
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If you lock the target up, fire, and lock the next one up, assuming that you’re using Deltas with IR seekers, they should all hit if you get the stable, closed crosshairs. The Maverick is a fire-and-forget missile, so once it’s off the rail (excluding laser Mavs), it should guide all the way home on it’s own.
…in theory.
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I just tried it in BMS and I get paired launch capability on both the F-16 and AV-8B II. The only difficulty for the AV-8B is that stations 3/5 are not considered paired and so while in theory both of these stations can be locked prior to firing it is impossible to step between these two missiles to accomplish the tracking process on the second missile prior to launching the first. Stations 2/6 are properly coded as pairs and the “STEP” function on the SMS page can change between these two stations in order to accomplish locking with each prior to any firing. The missile step button did not function in any case with the Harrier.
If this is unrealistic take it up with the BMS devs. Until then I will answer questions relevant to the BMS aircraft capabilities.
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…all I care about is that people know the diff between the “game” and reality…do whatever helps you sleep at night.
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…all I care about is that people know the diff between the “game” and reality…do whatever helps you sleep at night.
That is pretty much losing battle sod here, haha.