What happened with the mavericks in the bad weather training mission? BMS 4.35.1
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As said and you can see in the changelog the focus was stability.If you want to be sure that the issue is not neglected have you posted it in the bugtracker?
https://bmsbugs.blu3wolf.com/my_view_page.phpFrom a quick search I don’t see it there…
Thank you.
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As said and you can see in the changelog the focus was stability.If you want to be sure that the issue is not neglected have you posted it in the bugtracker?
https://bmsbugs.blu3wolf.com/my_view_page.phpFrom a quick search I don’t see it there…
Thank you.
man, I have no idea how your bug tracker works and how to write about problems there, I wrote to the technical support on the forum to draw attention to this problem, that’s all
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I’m not sure there’s even a bug … well probably there is, but it’s an open question if the bug is
(a) mavericks should work better in rain/snow/clouds
(b) the TGP and WPN optics should not work so well in rain/snow/cloudsIn other words, the bug arises from the inconsistency – that we can clearly see a high-contrast IR target image on the MFD screens, but the weapon can’t track it.
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Since mavericks don’t work in this mission anymore, it’s now a loft attack training.
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…in RL that’s about one of the best ways to flat out miss.
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My Hail Mary Pass
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You can pop up and dive, but the way a RL IMav works you can’t loft them.
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(I’m assuming those were bombs, not mavs?)
I flew this one again the other day … had some success, using the tall bldg nearest the shilkas as a “screen”. Which is probably some sort of war-crime but it’s super fun arcade-style action … so I’ll assume it’s an occupied HQ bldg or some valid military target.
Whenever shilkas hit me, I’ve noticed it’s almost always from behind or directly overhead… so, on the working theory that the jammer is most effective when travelling directly toward the aaa radar (is this true?) I approached heading northwest, and sometimes was able to get a lock and shoot (at around 2nm range, with aaa tracers in the air) then quickly weave/curve around the building to protect me from behind.
A good flare program is essential, eg. 5x 1.0 seconds, to help protect against manpads launched from the middle of the column… center/west of the city.
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…better to use buildings to hide behind than people.
With Mavs, you’re limited by the gimbal travel of the seeker - if you try and loft them at angles beyond the gimbal limit the missile will break lock enroute to the intended target. And miss. If BMS doesn’t do/represent this, then BMS has an issue.
Bombs are different.
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Yes they were mark 20 deltas not Mavericks. Oh that sounds like a fun sort of hack to get around the ridiculousness of that mission. I’ve been messing around in Mission commander, making the column mobile heading west and giving that SA10 site to the west some teeth. I have yet to fly it so we’ll see what challenges that poses, maybe it’ll even be easier to use the Mavericks in a different area of the map, I don’t know.
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…Mk20s are more like it!