@Frederf:
Does anyone know what MAN/AUTO option should do when using TGP+Maverick? I’m quite confident that AUTO attempts an automatic boresight correlation handoff on TMS forward release keeping TGP SOI.
My guess is about MAN. Since every other mode which does not handoff (VIS, BORE, PRE radar, PRE HUD, etc.) simply switches SOI to the WPN, I conclude that there would also TGP mode which also simply switches SOI to WPN and tells you good luck we’re all counting on you. I figure that “MAN” is such a mode.
The only other thing I can figure is there are different kinds of handoffs. Automatic handoff makes sense but what would even be a “manual handoff”? Would you nudge the crosshairs around to help the computer? It doesn’t make any sense.
My guess would be that this refers to laser operation. In AUTO the laser should fire when the sensor is locked, automatically, once the laser is armed and as long as the lock is maintained. In MAN the laser must be armed and the Trigger held down to fire the laser…and the laser will fire sensor lock or not.
Mechanics for boresight are not part of the TGP mechanics. These options are relevant to laser weapons and have nothing to with an IMAV.