Whether it is issues to do with GPS jamming or incorrect GPS coordinates or the target having been moved, the AASM is still able to travel to the pre-determined location and lock onto tanks that is already at a location different than what had been assessed (of course there’s a limit). Why the tank is at a different location than previously predicted doesn’t matter here, because it compensates regardless. It can compensate for GPS coordinates having been inputted wrong, or GPS jamming, or because the target has moved. The outcome is still the same.
This confirms my previous assumption that the AASM-Laser is instead for fast moving vehicles that will be well out of the area completely by the time an AASM-IR would have arrived seeing as AASMs are intended to be launched at ranges well above 70km. However AASM-IR still retains the capability of attacking main battle tanks still in the area, which would be enough for the small battle areas we have in-game. You could fire off 6 AASM-IRs at the enemy spawn point and let them find their targets.
We know it can correct 80m. But how far can it actually see?
I can’t find anything for AASM, but AGM-65D appears to be 15° or 30° depending on mode
At 30° with an activation alt of 1500m (iirc that was a figure used before) then it can see a 800m x 800m area. At 15° its just under 400m x 400m (based upon this calculator if im using it right). I’d assume it was somewhere between those two figures. Though that also dont account for accuracy. Its only 1m accurate within 80m. How fast does that drop off? Is it 2m at 160m or is 4m at 160m or maybe even more.
I know French mains dont want the AASM nerfed, but its looking like it will be as the current implementation is a total work of fiction
LOAL has been denied in an official dev blog for an AGM with similar capabiliies. So it is highly likely the AASM Will not get this feature. This is entirely and completely relevant to this discussion.
As a result, I could see the IIR version of the AASM being removed until such time they decide to add LOAL mode weapons. Leaving the Rafale limited to GNSS and SAL versions of the AASM
In another testing, it was found that when the target’s coordinates were shifted by several hundred meters it was still able to find its target. Primary source.
We have no clue what the FoV of the seeker is, only the gimbal limits of the seeker. We know it should be able to have an FoV large enough to compensate for a difference of atleast 300m in coordinate discrepancy. For in-game purposes, that is sufficiently more than enough.
Right now we’re forced to fire AASM-IR at 10km or less. A realistic implementation would mean that we would be able to fire salvos of AASM-IR towards enemy spawn points at ranges greater than 50km which would then be able to compensate for tanks that have since moved after launch and can recognize tanks. I don’t think that would be a nerf at all, if anything would make it much stronger.
Unless sources are presented that it cannot track moving targets, it should be assumed it can. People that have been assuming it cannot track moving targets have also been assuming it could not track tanks at all. I would assume implementing all of this would mean LOAL so maybe it would not be implemented for a long while.
