It works on the rafale internal camera that’s for sure.
However whenever the radar target position is outside of the camera limits of the in built camera (or Tpod if installed), then the camera lock will fix itself on a GPS point in the last seen location of the camera, and you need to deactivate the target point.
Having the Tpod lock to the radar is a huge buff for the Typhoon, especially with the SAL brismtones.
In gamemodes like SB, without that, the GMTI is basically unusable as you have to manually search for the target in the tpod anyway
Would be just as beneficial in the future for other aircraft too, like the Tornado Gr1/4.
For example. If I want to engage a destroyer in ASB. I could find the target on radar and it would display in the HMD/HUD. But Id still have to manually point the Tpod at the target and lock onto it. Which I could have done without ever using the radar in the first place
If the radar cued. I could lock the target with the radar, fly over the target and drop PW4s onto it without ever “leaving the cockpit” to have to mess around with the tpod. The QoL upgrade is rather massive.
In GSB, it would be more hassle than its worth even swapping to GMTI in the first place
Both. HOSBO is the one with modular warheads (in theory at least, no idea what kind of warheads ones were ever made/tested) and HOPE is a bunker buster
I can’t even express how much I doubt the snail will give us this.
Overall, it is extremely disappointing that there is no TV/IR “fire and forget” air-to-ground weapon. Theoretically, there is ARH, but the snail, as it seems to me, does not want to give it out of principle, since the Soviet + American TT do not have such a weapon, so the others do not need it either.
It’s still stupid, because one game mode hurts the capabilities of others. Literally nothing prevents the snail, as a convention, from giving all tanks dipole smoke.
Instead of shooting all the brimstones at once at the bots in the ASB, because of the TRB I am forced to fire brimstones at the bots ONE AT A TIME. To say that this RADICALLY reduces survivability is the same as keeping silent.
As far as I know, the Storm Shadow’s fairing is discarded when approaching the target, so I don’t see any fundamental difference here.