Durandal settings
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Can someone please point me in the right direction to find an explanation for CTRL page settings on the 107/B?
Ive been all through the training manual, -1, and -34.
Specifically… along the left side are C1 - C4 settings. I “think” C1 sets nose and tail arming delay. But what are 2-4 for?
And on the main SMS page, on the left side… you can select nose, tail, or NSTL… which i assume is nose/tail. Under what circumstances would you select one of these?
Thanks in advance…
Edit 3/9 I figure the C’s are Cat 1-4. But no idea what circumstances would dictate changing settings on them… or the selection options of nose, tail, and nstl. -
_Hello,
Please read this topic, maybe you can take it off, your doubts !!
Link below !!
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?30555-Spacing-out-Durandals&highlight=BLU-107Good luck !!!
malpaso_ -
Category 1 weapons are those with arming delays (2).
Category 2 weapons are those with arming delay (1) and proximity burst height (1).
Category 3 weapons are those with arming delay (1) and desired timed burst height (1).
Category 4 weapons are those with arming delays (2) and desired timed burst height (1).C1 are pretty much every unitary warhead bomb. C2 are modern CBUs like CBU-87A with radio prox fuze. C3are older timer-only CBUs. C4 is pretty much only for a single type of CBU (Rockeye II, but older than the one we get with BMS which has proximity fuze improvement) which had two timed release options. The SMS knows which types of weapons are which categories. If you load up CBU-52 for example I think those are C3s (or C2 if they are improved proximity). Whatever C# highlights when you select that weapon type is relevant to that weapon type.
Nose and tail can matter if there are different devices and fuzes associated with those fuze selections like high-drag MK-82s can be set up with the detonation device on nose and the retarder on tail. In this way NSTL is high drag and NOSE is slick and TAIL is dud. I’m not sure if that’s reflected in BMS but that’s the kinda thing. Similarly a CBU can have a fuze time dispense wire and an “option wire” which if pulled in addition to the primary will do a different dispense time (e.g. CBU-100 with NOSE 3.1 seconds, NSTL 8.5 seconds). This lets you have more flexibility in delivery.
Notice that unrealistically if you have two detonation fuzes (e.g. a MK-82) with one at time X and one at time Y and you choose to arm them BOTH the bomb will only detonate after the LONGER of the two times. Obviously in real life it would be the SHORTER of the two times. Whatever the SMS page says as the summary arming delay is what the bomb will do.
page 88 of the BMS1F-16CM-1 pdf.
Durandal should be set to 1.2 seconds fuzing to be realistic.
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Malpaso and Frederf…
That info is greatly appreciated… helped to fill in alot of my blank spots… especially the -1 page #… looked all through the manuals, but missed that section.
Thank You!