AGM-123 Skipper question
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Hi,
I came across this guided vehicle while exploring the Korea 1989 theatre, as it is pre-loaded in one of the available saved TEs. The mission involves destroying a depot, and four AGM-123s are your A-G ordnance, the a/c being a Hornet. Now, I have the laser ready and properly coded, the target point-selected on the TGP page and the target is clearly in range, yet the skippers fly far, far away, not even directing themselves towards the target. As always, I assume I do something wrong… Any idea what that could be? Have you had any experience with the skipper, anyone?
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I’ve noticed the laser doesnt seem to auto-laze for LGMs like it does for LGBs - so activate it manually by pulling the trigger after you have the TGP in Area/Point mode. This should cause the L to start blinking like in the terminal stage of LGB attacks, and the weapon should guide toward it. Beware that the AGM123 is kind of a pig, so you need to be pretty well lined up to get hits, and it still sometimes overflies the target. It also has a very noticable minimum range, and if you fire under that the missile will not have time to adjust course. I’ve found the best method to using them is lobbing them at longish ranges and letting them glide into to hit the target.
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Thanks so much, Elouda, for your input, you mention some aspects I obviously didn’t take into account. I’ll fly the mission again today and see what happens.
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I actually just finished doing some more testing myself and was still unhappy, so took a look at their settings….and realized I had at some point flagged them as ‘bomb gps’ as well, meaning they were probably fighting the laser guidance and the gps one simultaneously leading to poor accuracy. No idea how I missed that, but its fixed now and will be in the 2.5 release tonight or tommorow. Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for making me take a second look at them.
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Good find Elouda. Since was already sniffing yours thread, I’ve checked Balkans db also had this ‘glitch’ …
Skipper doesn’t have any relations to gps. Pure laser guidance.
For gps bombs that setting should be visual.
Gbu54 is that special case, ins/gps/laser. (and you see it is set as ‘visual’ and has ‘3rd gen lgb’ flag set)Corrected my db anyways. …better safe then sorry
Probably that glitch is global , all known db’s… well , at least till future update(s).
Cheers