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 - don’t believe much of what you see in Top Gun…
Second - depends on how far “underground”. 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 - don’t believe much of what you see in Top Gun…
Second - depends on how far “underground”. 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 smiley…
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 doesn’t 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 I’m 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 isn’t available in the Magazine, but not that I can’t load anything that is available/suitable.
Not to mention that you wouldn’t really want to be wasting weapons stations on MAVs for an OCA mission…I’d want more A/A weapons - unless part of my division was tasked to knock out airfield units after downing bogeys. So yeah - I’d want mixed loads/tasking per my own ROE/OOB.
And actually - you can employ a laser MAV against a moving target…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 it’s 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 would’ve been when they first were loaded by default.