Some questions about Mavericks
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I’m surprised the TV ones wouldn’t have covers…seems to me like they’d be just as sensitive as the IR ones - and for similar reasons - if mounted on a triple rack. Unless they are just so old that they never had covers to begin with?..dunno. Never worked with those. But I should think they still would need to be boresighted unless their FOV is so wide that they just use the weapon as sensor…which means you need to get close to use one.
Boresight is about the same…but “handoff” seems more complex in BMS seeing as how many people seem to be having problems - you do have to blow the covers and lock the weapon after switching SOI. If you have a poor boresight then you’re going to have problems locking the weapon to obtain the “handoff”. Maybe it’s boresighting that’s easier…and maybe it’s just a better situation all around when using a single rail LAU-117 launcher? USN/USMC have never used triple racks for Mavs…they seem more and more like a PITA.
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Don’t covers exist for EO (A/B) and CCD (H/K) Mavericks? I swear I’ve seen covers on a non-IR model. They wouldn’t bother to make them in visible-wavelength-clear materials if they were only supposed to go over IR sensors. Runway and low altitude debris/bugs are reasons to cover any seeker, not just exhausts. Maybe the material that the IR sensors are covered in is more delicate than the glass ones. I don’t know. I wouldn’t treat BMS as an ultimate authority on which configs of which models get covers. In BMS if you -88 rack multiple A or B missiles do they get covers or not?
I also have slight suspicions of A and B model missiles externally driven like with PRE or VIS and even more suspicious of A&B compatible with TGP MBC handoff.
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I think you mean laser Mavs - no, they aren’t in there…and they need to be. Laser Mav does not need to be boresighted…only IR and TV Mavs do. So in BMS I guess we need to boresight all of what we get.
Yes I meant Laser Mavs, which I think are used by the Marines
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Yes I meant Laser Mavs, which I think are used by the Marines
Affirmative…and the USN. In fact, I think the only USN platform that employs IR Mav these days is the P3 and/or P8, and the USN uses the F variant (so far…) which is maritime optimized.
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AFAIK USAF uses AGM-65E2 for their A-10C. I hear that they have launched some of them in Afganistan.
They have also tested them on F-16 but AFAIK they never went into service on F-16.
They were even in old DCS World A-10C open beta versions and also in standalone, you just needed to know how to equip them
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They need to be there in BMS for Hornet and Harrier…both baseline E and E2, I should think. Fly Navy!
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navy shills get out! reeeeeeee!
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They need to be there in BMS for Hornet and Harrier…both baseline E and E2, I should think. Fly Navy!
I’d also like to have them…
…For Viper OFC.
If they have been tested on Viper there is probably option IRL. I don’t care if anybody bought this option… -
I’d also like to have them…
…For Viper OFC.
If they have been tested on Viper there is probably option IRL. I don’t care if anybody bought this option…+1. And Fly Navy!
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I would fly Navy if we had (Super)Hornet with proper avionics.
Flying Hornet with F-16 avionics is something i can’t accept. -
I would fly Navy if we had (Super)Hornet with proper avionics.
Flying Hornet with F-16 avionics is something i can’t accept.…nothing to stop you from operating like an F-16N…which is pretty much what I practice under BMS. Fly Navy!
But I agree…I won’t touch the BMS Hornet. Or anything but the Viper in BMS, really.
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One suggestion I’ve heard is to power up on the ramp. After launch, fly out x miles, then turn back to the ship and use the boat as your boresight target. Turn the Mavs off and continue the mission from there.
Since we’d been talking about this last week I’ve been wanting to test it, and it works well. What I did was power the TGP on deck set up AG mode with RDR in SEA and Mav ready to be powered.
Upon launch and once stabilized in my normal Maintain 350kt CAS at Mil climb, I powered the Mavs. When they timed in , I leveled off and set INS back to waypoint one. I then did the normal boresight procedure with the carrier as “target”. Then I turned back toward WP 2 and I was on my way.
I was very happy with the procedure. I didn’t have to fly ail over, I didn’t have to search for a suitable “target”, and even doing “lazy” turns I was only 1.5 minutes late on rendezvous ( and that was saving fuel). -
Just noticed in the 4.37.3 docs that the LMAV display looks WAY better than it was…hopefully the mech is improved as well. Fingers crossed…
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@Stevie said in Some questions about Mavericks:
Just noticed in the 4.37.3 docs that the LMAV display looks WAY better than it was…hopefully the mech is improved as well. Fingers crossed…
Please let us know your discovers
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@Lemmi22 - from what I see in the docs the display looks much more like a RL LMAV display, for one - the circle is more the correct size.