A-7 Corsair in real life have AGM-123 Skipper, but in game, skipper only have A6E-Intruder.
This will give the opportunity to normally assault tanks and anti-aircraft guns, in exchange for which it is possible to raise the tank’s Realistic Battles by 0.3 b.r.
Proofs:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder
They wont take it here on the forum. Go to the issues site, write out a report , add your sources , and hope for the best.
Lol, not a bug. They will simply forward him back to this forum. If Gaijin do not want a vehicle/aircraft to have some feature, you won’t change their mind even with a proper PhD 200 pages thesis about it.
I know that genius… I am well aware of their Bug report practices.
Just saying , doing it via the Issues site increases the chances of success from 0% to 1%.
How should that thing be guided? There is no buddy lasing in WT…
Still requires buddy lasing to be a thing, but now with MITL being added, maybe soon enough. The A-7 is far from the only thing that can benefit from buddy lasing.
Not a targeting system, plus the photo shows a ECM pod
Does it even have that capability?
Technically anything that can drop a LGBU can work with buddy lasing. But the A-7D/K (in-game too) in particular do mount an integrated pave penny pod under the intake. You can see it also just barely in the image. The A-7E doesn’t seem to mount one IRL either however, seems to be an USAF thing I guess.
No I mean MITL
I brought up MITL because it allows for LOAL/NLOS attacks, similarly to buddy lasing, so probably no balance reasons anymore not to have it. But I guess the A-7E does have MITL, it carried datalink pods for the walleye ERDL. Next update it’s also getting the Walleye 2 ERDL.
I dont know what it looks like the article said it was a pave penny pod.
This is listed as: AN/AAR-45 LANA FLIR/Targeting pod
yeah thats the wrong thing
this is a pave penny pod
source https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2000571093/
Pave Penny is just a laser spot detector, it can’t actively lase a target for laser guided weapons.
The LANA is also supposed to be a Navigation pod, that can only be automatically slewed to correlate tracks of the A2G radar (which isn’t implemented as a sensor in game), and overlaid on the HUD so the pilot can use the HUD to refine EO ordnance and CCIP / CCRP attacks.
It would be very funny if you could just use it like a Yasser, just a rocket powered bomb, no guidance needed
You get rocket CCIP after all
