Hitting moving targets with CBU's in the middle of the night
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Please, let’s not feed that misunderstanding. It’s coming to a point you are putting words in my mouth. This is not constructive anymore.
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All right Lorik .
But you are heavily mistaken if you think I am the kind of man who needs/want to put words in someone mouth .
It’s really not in my habits . I tell what I think , and let ppl think what they want to . I don’t want you to agree with me or anybody else , that’s all .
to be honest (and it’s a mark of respect , coming from me) , I really don’t care if people agree or not with me .
But , heh ! it’s a flight sim forum , and we’re here to discuss . I always think interesting to know what other think .
But I still have the right to defend what I think .
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Back on topic: Youtube comments in French, a typical BMS versus real life exchange with a BMS dev seasoned in both areas.
EDIT: before it becomes a topic, my “Lorik’s theaters” don’t contain this mod anymore, I rather expect from IA what they’re supposed to do in vanilla, and from humans what they’re fancy.
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True Lorik , that’s the point(and yes , it’s back on the topic) . Noone here answered the real question : At what altitude should we drop ?
All we know (for now ) is :
: Above 300 ft (Stevie : WAY-WAY too LOW!!)+ not above 10000ft + me ( “pull on the stick to gain some hundreds feets”). In the sim , it gives me about 1000ft
+You, Lorik, stated 3000ft wasn’t good either (because of the way CBU’s are modelled) . Everybody were ok for all thoses statements .
So : Which alt ? The question hasn’t been answered yet .
When I asked Stevie what tactics he saw used in RL with its Harrier Sqn , he didn’t answered me .
I(we ?) still dunno .
If I remember well , in the old F4 , you were quite easily blasted by your own bombs if you weren’t careful . It never happened to me in BMS …
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There we go again. Ready previous posts carefully. I didn’t say that. The answer is there and in Dee-Jay’s comment on Youtube: not used IRL like that, or not at all. Actually even not for static targets anymore for ethical reasons.
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I don’t know why you still think someone has smg after you …No one ever said you were wrong . Never .
The only thing I dared to say is : “I think BMS is good enough to have an idea of tactics employed , in general” . That’s all .
It’s this answer that you didn’t love ; nothing else …
You answered :"
There isn’t a lot of room for thinking etc …
That’s the only thing that made the thread derail a bit .
Note that I wasn’t even very affirmative . Note I only said" to have an idea" .
Then , Stevie said smg like " I thought BMS is quite good to model RL" .
And that’s all .
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If you have other questions on the same topic mvanderlubbe, there we are.
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Maybe a bit late but I found a video with an interesting approach to align to a column with GMT map - markpoint and HSI. Might be the answer to your question.
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Against vehicles, I usually use GBU-54 (stations 3/7) and GBU-12 (if I put weapons on stations 4/6) from 15000ft+ in good weather. In bad weather, I have to go below the clouds and flying directly over enemy ground troops at low altitude is suicide. So I need standoff weapons and the AGM-65D is the best option.
There are not many situations for CBUs, since non-moving ground troops are hard to find and driving vehicles often aren’t moving as a column.
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In rl the f16 has gmtt. This would be the solution.
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In rl the f16 has gmtt. This would be the solution.
Maybe in 2-3 weeks?But does that actually give you a lead cue? I mean, even if you can track moving targets, does this mode tell you where you have to drop your bomb to hit your target, assuming that it moves with a constant speed an constant direction?
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we are 1980s style campaign . NO TGP
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The way i see it, if PGM’s are out of the question and no TGP and NVG’s are available then you cant really attack mobiles effectively at night. In daylight you can employ unguided gravity bombs (be they CBU’s or otherwise) but if you are doing so against mobiles, you have to do it from a low altitude so that you dont end up missing by a big margin. That means pickle below 10k ft, somewhere in the 7-5k ft vicinity and probably in either a lay down or HADB profile. That works fine in 80’s environments. Against modern SHORADS, you’d be committing suicide.