The A-10a doesn’t have the option and without a targeting pod, it’s pretty tough to use at the current fov the B has. I’d rather give up lock range for less of a magnification
its in game and has less zoom
my problem with 65B when test flight the A-10 prem is that the sensitivity is so so so sooo slow i have to move the plane to fire
Whether you use the 65B at 6km or the 65A at 3km, it still looks the same in the seeker because the B has half the FOV.
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I personally prefer the B also over the D, even though the D allows easier pickup at distances thanks to IIR.
However, I find ability to identify over large distances more important (to pick out and engage the dangerous SPAA’s…), and that’s lacking in the D, even more dso than the A, and much more so than the B…
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I mean, you can just turn off the thermal sight for that. Yes the thermal sight for spotting/targetting, and turn it off for target identification purposes.
…which I think is also unrealistic: It’s not a seeker that can switch between TV and IIR mode, afaik, no?
It is ingame at least. I do so believe I remember reading about it having two separate channels, one for IR and one for non IR, both at the same zoom. I may be mistaken from reading up on something else however.
65B is gen 1 thermal right?
More like an electro optical view than thermal
no i mean like does it has thermal ingame
The B, no. It looks like thermal but doesn’t illuminate anything
Little update: my Hunter specialist contact and co-author of a Swiss Hunter book confirmed the AGM-65B (which was also used on Swiss Hunters) only had a fixed magnification.
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AGM-65G missiles took place in 1989
Here’s everything you need to know about balance.
So the gaijins also nerfed her.
how does reducing the FOV increase lock range?
The seeker needs contrast to lock on to. With a wider FOV (and less magnification…), the image is smaller, unclearer and thus it’s more difficult to detect contrast and lock onto it.
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Ok. That makes sense considering what the color range for the sensor is.
Well it’s tech from the 70ies, so not too much is to be expected, and it was greyscale only, not coloured…
Here a still I took from a video of Swiss Maverick tests, next to what would be more likely combat scenarios. The test (upper left) was a black square on snow, so very high contrast. More realistic would be a camouflage coloured target blending much more into the background, like top right, representing also an AGM-65B, and below it a larger-FOV AGM-65A in the same situation:
So this meant that with a 65A you’d have to get much closer to the target to get good enough contrast to find, identify and the seeker to lock onto a target, which of course made you more vulnerable to enemy defenses…
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Define distances.
Sure, thermal imager is nice and all, but at max range you cant really tell whenever the thing you look at is bruning wreck or live tank
…which is what I wrote in the second sentence:
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