Currently the TGP MFD screens in cockpits serve no purpose at all despite them being very important in military aviation, mainly for targeting guided air to ground weapons and for target identification. But in-game they simply don’t work.
In-game we still lack the controls to use the TGP from within the cockpit which limits the ability for VR users to use air to ground weapons as the dedicated TGP view is disorientating even for experienced VR users.
All TGP cameras take the zoom level of any IR/TV guided weapons that are equipped which leads to target ID to be non-existent.
I made a report on this issue here.
TGP MFD's all have atleast half of the gimbal limit of their respective TGP's which make it harder to see if you are still guiding your weapon successfully to the target.
Within cockpit
From dedicated TGP view
Here’s a bug report I made on this issue.
On the F-14B, Kurnass 2000, Su-34, and the British/Italian Typhoons there are built in cameras meant for target acquisition and identification, TISEO for the F-14B, F-15E+LANTIRN and Kurnass 2000, Plantan Optical-Electronic System for the Su-34, PIRATE for the British and Italian Typhoons, and FSO-IRST for the Rafale. In real life these systems serve as both targeting systems for various air to ground and air to air weapons and for identifying targets however they are useless at identifying targets.
Since the TISEO screen on the F-14B is just a TV seeker screen pasted in it completely blocks out the target making it only useful for within 500m by which point the job of target identification can by done by just looking at your target.
Looking at the TISEO on the F-15E with the LANTIRN pod the difference in just the screen layout is massive. Can actually make out the target from nearly 7km away.//
I made a bug report here about this but nothing has come of it.
Kurnass 2000 TISEO doesn't lock onto radar targets at all and also lacks the MFD screen for the built in camera to be useful for the player if this did work correctly
A bug report was made, here ,which was marked as being fixed and 2 years later it is not fixed.
Su-34 Plantan system doesn't work on targets that are soft locked with TWS but do work with full radar locks.
Soft lock:
Full lock:
British and Italian Typhoon's PIRATE system doesn't track locked targets from both radar and IRST when it should.
Also they are both missing the MFD screen showing the view from the PIRATE system which it should have, here’s a bug report made about this which was “Forwarded as suggestion”, whether we actually see this in the future or not is up for debate as half the the issues “Forwarded as suggestion” are just abandoned and left to rot.
Rafale's FSO-IRST is meant to have the capability for tracking targets locked by the IRST and Radar however once again it doesn't
This is despite this bug report being closed by a bug reporting manager as “It can track target in the game” which is a complete lie.
If there are any more issues I missed please leave them below and I will add them here along with any images and bug reports from each issue.
Hopefully @Smin1080p_WT, @Stona_WT, @Gunjob, @Schindibee or any other CM/Gaijin presence could give these issues a push to be fixed/implemented correctly.
TLDR: TGP MFD screens don’t work in almost every aircraft, can’t use the screens from within cockpit view to use the TGP, TV/IR weapons’ zoom levels override TGP zoom levels on the MFD screens, TGP MFD screens have half the gimbal limit they should have, and built in cameras meant for target ID don’t work/can’t be used for their intended purpose.
List of all bug reports for these issues here:
[DEV]TGP MFD Zoom overridden by equipped TV/IR guided weapons
Kurnass 2000 TISEO not tracking targets