Weapons selector mode is enabled, with 540 lb bombs selected. In real life they lock on a target and follow heat sources. With theupcoming intro of Several new war time franchises competition for player base will get intense for the foreseeable future. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). Were the really Sparrows that bad when it came to ground clutter? Each type of weapon can have its own key bind. Take those both into 8.3 and 9.0 respectively and tell me what you think. It's important to remember their shortcomings though - they're pretty useless above 5km, and even later missiles can still be easily dodged with careful flaring and evading. RogueStarflyer, September 3, 2018 in Air Force Academy. Once you're in this TV-guidance view, you can use your mouse to change the camera's angle, giving you a better visual on your line of sight. IR missiles are great for short-range knife fights where you're manoeuvring to get in shot of the enemy. You should leave these untouched if you have already set them up. I found a workaround anyway, I lock on in gunner's view and fire in normal view. All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners. Finally, bind the "Exit selected weapon mode" control, this will restore the weapon controls mode to the standard mode. Where T = the time until your aircraft is within radar range and X = the speed of your aircraft, in kph. This is now fixed, however. The weapons selector, introduced in Update "Raining Fire", allows the player to select which of an aircraft's primary and secondary weapons should be used. Look at Guidance system type. Or also maybe redo the cockpit as only 1 craft can pack them to have a small TV screen in the cockpit so it works then cut the range and make it so the screen doesnt tell you friend from foe players will then be able to guide it to targets but its a 50-50 on if its the enemy or friendly would be a good compromise players would learn from a cheap image and make accurate decisions like in a REAL WORLD CONFLICT. Why should I bother learning operational method 1 (standard guidance) when I could just use operational method 2 (TV-guidance)? if you have bombs on Space Bar, one could assign "Fire Secondary Weapon" also to Space Bar, because as said, whatever weapon firing it normally is assigned to will be overridden while in Weapon Selection Mode. Earlier missiles often had a "caged seeker" - where the IR-detecting electronics are mounted directly forwards and have a fixed cone of detection. This method allows you to have better visibility on your target and the whole battlefield in general as you guide the missile in. Thanks guys. Maybe being able to get a lock in gunner view is the actual bug? These missiles have a camera in the nose that transmits a greyscale image to the pilot, allowing them to select and lock onto a high contrast static or moving target. However, I've done extensive testing, and I believe that my calculations are accurate to within a few seconds. As there are multiple types of air-to-air missile available (AIM-9G Sidewinders and Skyflashes), the name of the selected weapon has been displayed. Just get a wired mouse and keyboard, it's what I use. The Sidewinder is rather poor at tracking and I don't remember having to wait 6 seconds to get a lock with either missile in DCS, but I guess that's off-topic here. While hard to use and often unrewarding, these missiles can be really useful in dogfights where the enemy doesn't expect it or in head-ons where all the missiles at the BR ranges these missiles are used are rear-aspect - killing someone with a missile in a head-on often takes people by surprise, and they can be quite fun - I just can't recommend them to beginner pilots as they are not easy to use. Remember guys, I just want to reiterate that even though the TV-guidance method is now disabled as it should be, this weapon system is still extremely lethal. When the weapons selector is activated a number of things will happen. Press it only once or else you'll turn the thing off with the second press. Only the ATGM cursor. They'll give you a general idea and grasp behind each of the methods I'm going to talk about: This method of use will most likely be the standard method to use the missile once the method 2 is disabled (which will happenmark my words). 2.5 km (1.55 mi): The maximum distance that a radar SPAAG can acquire a lead indicator on an aircraft, 4 km (2.48mi): The maximum effective shooting range of an SPAAG, 7-8 km (4.35-4.97 mi): The maximum range of the Bullpup missile, 8.25 km (5.13 mi): The maximum distance that an aircraft can spot the silhouette of an enemy tank. Now, onto some general specifications for this missile system: @Iron_physikdid some data mining and found out some more info for y'all. It consists of guiding the missile via the assigned keys from the pilot's line of sight at a maximum range in order to hit the target. If you don't get a lock within 10 seconds (Sidewinder) or 15 seconds (R-60/R-60M) you have to start over. In War Thunder, television-guided missiles refer to a class of missile guided by "optical contrast seekers". This can allow for much easier and more accurate targeting than MCLOS missiles with fine adjustments using the mouse, but means that ample time should be given to allow the aircraft to pull up after the missile has struck. Ah, that I hadn't done. I am test flying the SU and I can't change the red box. 20112023 Gaijin Games Kft. When an air-to-air missile is selected, pressing the "Fire secondary weapon" key once will activate the seeker, and a second time will fire the missile. Just keep the target in the smaller inner circle, once you have a lock, change to normal cockpit view and fire. These are the key binds you are used to using for your various primary and secondary weapons. I still have buttons set for MGs and cannons, since I find that useful for mixed armament aircraft. Hi, since there's no way to testflight drones, maybe someone around here can help me Do you notice that when you go to camera view there is 1 small little box at the middle? However, unless things are different in actual battles I did manage to use missiles on Test Flight in SB difficulty. This can also often be set to centre automatically on a designated point on the ground (the "sight stabilization" keybind), which accounts for the relative motion of the helicopter and maintains the image in the gunner view, thus allowing for smooth guidance of the missile even when the helicopter is performing extreme manoeuvres. How do I use AIR TO AIR and AIR TO GROUND missiles? To first understand how AAMs really work in War Thunder, let's take a look at their stat cards in-game. All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners. Flares are infrared countermeasures fired off by aircraft to counter infrared homing (heat-seeking) missiles. I have x data to prove this! When it does get disabled eventually, there will be those that say that the missiles are useless. One of your calculations is incorrect. Advanced laser guided missiles can operate even when the laser illumination is stopped and will continue its flight path on inertial guidance. The targeting device often features a significantly zoomed-in view which makes target acquisition easier. SARH missiles are great for long-distance engagements of an enemy well out of the range of their more agile dogfight missiles, where depending on your piloting skill and aircraft performance, maybe an area you want to avoid. Combining everything into one equation, we have: TL= (8250-((Va)((4000/(479-Va)))+4000)/(Va). But here's the thing: this also happens in like a super straight line when I don't pull any G's!! Operational Method 1: Standard Guidance. The final step is to determine how long it takes from the moment the aircraft enters the missile launch zone to the launch point, a simple calculation: Where TL= the elapsed time in seconds from the moment that the aircraft enters the missile launch zone to the moment the missile should ideally be launched. Select Secondary Weapon (to get into the mode and cycle through): SHIFT + RMT Fire Secondary Weapon: RMT (outside of mode, I have it assigned to MGs) Exit Weapon Selection Mode: CTRL + RMT Best regards, Phil Report post Posted September 3, 2020 Try this. This is a subreddit for War Thunder, a cross platform vehicular combat MMO developed by Gaijin Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Sparrows also seem to be rather hit and miss (pardon the pun). There are 2 main types of IR missiles: Rear-aspect - These are more basic IR AAMs that use a passively-cooled seeker head to detect and track an aircraft's heat. (default key: space). By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. It can do a direct attack at closer ranges (rather than its usual top attack) but if fired at an odd angle, it may not have time to manoeuvre onto the target if fired at closer ranges. Once we know T, we candetermine the distance of the aircraft from the target at the moment of launch: Where D = the distance of the aircraft from the target at the moment of launch. Go to camera view, toggle thermal to find targets easier. What the hell. You need to assign a button not only to "Select Secondary Weapon" but also "Fire Secondary Weapon" as when you're in Weapon Selection Mode, it overrides your normal fire button and looks instead for what button you assigned to "Fire Secondary Weapon". The SACLOS guidance system improves on MCLOS by having a device that calculates correction commands such that the gunner only has to point the sight of the targeting device at the target, and the appropriate correction commands will be performed by the device. So as you see, up to distances of about 1.5 km, you don't really have to lead the target that much. Press lock-on button and 2 circles appear, I try to keep the target in the inner smaller circle and the beep beep beep converts into a long steady sound beeeeeeeeep (is that the lock-on confirmation?). You must first get a radar lock to fire SARH missiles, and you need to maintain that radar lock for the entire duration of the missile's flight, or else it will lose track and be wasted. Learn how your comment data is processed. all in all the implementation is quite well done and I could not find any contradiction with historic data I could find for it. Before I start to talk about actually using the weapons system, there are fournumbers that you all need to remember. I cant find it anywhere. After you've got that down, the rest is just practice. Sometimes I'm spam clicking the lock button and nothing happens except the circle appears for a second and disappears only for it to start growling maybe 10 seconds later, when I have no target to lock on to since it's already out of my firing line since the thing wouldn't lock on when I needed it to.