Dumb bombs?? What?? They are smarter than JDAM :-P
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Today i decided to engage some strategic targets with dumb bombs to make a kind of test.
I wasnāt really using them in BMS before so when i found some targets that were out of air defence i decided to make a try.
To test their precission i just flew at about 20k feet and started dropping them at targets.And when most of them hit targets with killer precission i started to wonder WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON??!!
I was able to get almost 10 meters CEP. Thats better than JDAM dropped in GPS denied mode (regarding to JDAM manual). JDAM in GPS denied mode have CEP of 30 meters or sometimes even worse (when TOF is longer) i am not sure if its modelled in BMS and i guess it is not.So how is this possible? I am dropping them from almost 20k feet with precission of guided weapons
Here is picture. Missed the target ONLY by about 5 meters or so.
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Wind effects are not implemented for bombs. If they were, you would miss.
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Youāre TGP targeting as well, which is a much higher chance of kill than just using CCRP with the radar alone or CCIP.
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Dumb bomb does not equal dumb aircraft. āDumbā bombs are limited by the targeting system in the aircraft, after that itās just physics. The targeting system in the F-16 isnāt exactly a piece of junkā¦
āSmartā weapons just have the ability to maneuver, which is what delineates a āDumbā weapon from a āSmartā weapon. Unguided munitions were used for decades, rather effectively and with extremely close accuracy, long before guided munitions were available.
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Thatās why I like to use the term unguided vs guided I agree with Morte, dumb != inaccurateā¦ CCIP means continuously calculated impact point and CCRP means continuously computed release point so the F-16 is constantly calculating a release with the highest pK possible, provided the operator (aka YOU :p) targets correctly
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ā¦methinks BMS JDAMs are merely dumb bombs in a dress.
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Wasnāt there an entry in Falcon BMS.cfg that could enable winds aloft, with the downside that it would FUBAR AI targeting precision?
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yes
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Itās disabled by default. I think it just needs some high power math guru to look at it and make sure itās doing what itās supposed to do and that itās affecting heavy objects dropped from the sky. Which also brings into the discussion that itās possible (read: necessary) that munitions calculations/modeling would have to be looked into as well. There are definitely hacks and kludges in there in order to make things āworkā āproperly.ā
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