Do I have the right pods for the Mav-65G in bad weather?
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I have a mission that I downloaded that requires my flight to sink a ship somewhere out in the water.
I have the Maverick 65G with the AN/AAQ-13 Navpod and the AN/ALQ-184 pod.
The mission is in an overcast environment where the cloud ceiling is about 5,000 ft.My Maverick is on and as I approach the target, I lock it in the FCR.
When I go to the TGP I don’t get a picture. The TGP is not in standby, and is turned on…as far as I know.Do I have the right pods for the scenario???
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@ironman53rd Yeah…that’s what I thought…but reading through the Tactical Reference tab on pods,I thought there was a better pod for looking through clouds.
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@ironman53rd
Doesn’t make a difference as quote from the Dash-34 p.121AN/AAQ-14 LANTIRN and AN/AAQ-33 Sniper Targeting Pods are functionally identical in 4.35
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@jack72 Most often you don’t need a pod to lock a G on target.
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In bad weather, AGM-65 is bad (unsuitable) munition anyway.
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Even a Sniper pod can’t see though clouds. That’s just the way the physics work. No EO sensor is immune from the effects of dust, smoke, humidity, rain, temperature differential, etc. That’s why you carry a variety of sensors across the spectrum.
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If you want to use a Mav G, you’ll have to get ‘under the weather’.
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@fisty Yes, well under the weather … else risk watching your mav accelerate and arc upward, back into the cloud deck, immediately losing whatever lock it had.
You really have to mind those clouds, even in mostly fair wx conditions…
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Heh…I had this happen with a RL MAV once…
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I flew with the sniper pod and the AGM-65G.
As I locked the target on the FCR I flew towards it and dived below the cloud level…but still could not spot him.
The TGP never gave me a picture, (Master arm was on), the AGM 65G was powered on , and the WPN view did have a picture, it but I could never spot the thing.So if you were going to go after a sea target (ship or missile boat), in low cloud (about 3,000 ft ceiling) what weapons and pod would you take?
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@jack72 all pods work exactly the same in BMS, as oakdesign said above.
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@jack72 said in Do I have the right pods for the Mav-65G in bad weather?:
I flew with the sniper pod and the AGM-65G.
As I locked the target on the FCR I flew towards it and dived below the cloud level…but still could not spot him.
The TGP never gave me a picture, (Master arm was on), the AGM 65G was powered on , and the WPN view did have a picture, it but I could never spot the thing.So if you were going to go after a sea target (ship or missile boat), in low cloud (about 3,000 ft ceiling) what weapons and pod would you take?
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If available in the campaign a Anti-Ship missile namely Harpoon.
If going with AGM in such low cloud environment maybe consider to boresight your AGM to your FCR instead of trying with another visual sensor pod.
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@jack72 said in Do I have the right pods for the Mav-65G in bad weather?:
I have a mission that I downloaded that requires my flight to sink a ship somewhere out in the water.
I have the Maverick 65G with the AN/AAQ-13 Navpod and the AN/ALQ-184 pod.
The mission is in an overcast environment where the cloud ceiling is about 5,000 ft.My Maverick is on and as I approach the target, I lock it in the FCR.
When I go to the TGP I don’t get a picture. The TGP is not in standby, and is turned on…as far as I know.Do I have the right pods for the scenario???
How can you get closer to a ship with an AGM-65G without being shot down?
Ships are a nasty business, they are quite aggressive and sea does not allow a great masking or covering behind an obstacle.
I have troubles to get closer undetected
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@freedomlike Not a problem with a missile boat or an Osa
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@airtex2019 Is that actually modelled in BMS?
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@sungad said in Do I have the right pods for the Mav-65G in bad weather?:
@airtex2019 Is that actually modelled in BMS?
I believe so. I think also sidewinders will lose track, if a cloud obstructs line-of-sight.
(Or I suck at weapon deployment, in some other ways… I can’t discount that possibility.
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@airtex2019 It’s clearly stated as modeled. Somewhere, I can’t remember exactly where.
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@airtex2019 I’m asking because the TGP never loses track (due to clouds) once locked.