All F-16 just use AGM-65L Maverick for Strikes or OCA
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Is this intended? Because Laser Mavericks are not so good against underground factories, as I learned from Top Gun 2.
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First - donāt believe much of what you see in Top Gunā¦
Second - depends on how far āundergroundā. Use Delay fusing and a high angle/higher speed delivery. And be sure you are aiming at an attack point that is actually vulnerable.
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@Stevie said in All F-16 just use AGM-65L Maverick for Strikes or OCA:
First - donāt believe much of what you see in Top Gunā¦
Second - depends on how far āundergroundā. Use Delay fusing and a high angle/higher speed delivery. And be sure you are aiming at an attack point that is actually vulnerable.
Please note the ironic smileyā¦
No, that was not my point. It is, that all F-16 get loaded with AGM-65L only in all campaign missions against immobile targets. All Strike and OCA missions. Even if you attack airfields and their runways. It doesnāt seem to be related to a special campaign or theater, I see it in Middle East, too.
Something is broken. It would be a huge job to correct the loadouts manually for all F-16 squadrons throughout the theater all the time.
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@Atze-0 - something I dislike about the Campaigns (and one of many reasons Iām not really interested in them, based on what I read) is how rigid the selections for ordnance/weaponeering are. I can see getting told that something isnāt available in the Magazine, but not that I canāt load anything that is available/suitable.
Not to mention that you wouldnāt really want to be wasting weapons stations on MAVs for an OCA missionā¦Iād want more A/A weapons - unless part of my division was tasked to knock out airfield units after downing bogeys. So yeah - Iād want mixed loads/tasking per my own ROE/OOB.
And actually - you can employ a laser MAV against a moving targetā¦which is one if its advantages over an IRMAV. As long as you can track and lase the target, you can hit it - moving or not. I chalk this up to the LMAV model being relatively new to BMS and the devs not really having considered all of the possibilities/use cases/tactics for it.
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BMS 4.37, brought to you by:
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@spotdott said in All F-16 just use AGM-65L Maverick for Strikes or OCA:
BMS 4.37, brought to you by:
Laser MaverickI think itās since 4.36 or even earlier. Before, the loadouts where appropriate with JDAMs and so.
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@Atze-0 4.36 Introduced the L-Mav, so that wouldāve been when they first were loaded by default.