Okay, just had it happen to me multiple times in the same match. It’s not IRST (or at least, not blatantly so). It’s TRK MEM. Sequence is:
Pick up target on TWS > Lock Target > Lock degrades to TRK MEM > Attempts to cue AMRAAM fail.
The whole time though the lock tracks accurately, even against manuevering targets just like a normal lock would.
The entire area was dense with clouds, with crap visibility so I’m confident it’s not IRST.
Edit: I also got the Acquistion bug that mission, whole thing locked up on me and I had to turn it on and off and switch into IRST to clear it. Video of it from my local replay (server replay link is here:Gaijin Entertainment - Single Sign On), the switches to TRK IR are my attempts to lock sidewinders and not the cause of the failed AMRAAM launches.
Pretty sure TRK MEM is when the radar goes into inertial track as the lock has degraded too much to be kept, which then means its not actually tracking the radar target its just tracking where it thinks it would be if it kept flying the way it last saw it flying.
Likely just another side effect of how garbage the CAPTOR-M is in-game, its unable to hold its lock reliably enough lmao.
Idk whats going on with it, some of those locks its going into TRK MEM are head ons with closure rates in excess of 600m/s or lookup’s into open sky. I’ve attached the video and replay to an existing bug report on the ARMAAMS not locking, so we’ll see what comes of it.
Radars shite, at least the actual plane itself is kinda fun. Finally bothered trying out the brimstones and fuck me are they unusable, it wouldnt be so bad if not for the fact the t pod has such limited angles its almost impossible to retain a lock while flying about. Doesnt help when it loves to just lose tracking on targets not moving out in the open if your not looking at it, always funny doing all the fancy manoeuvres and all while i watch an su 24 just spam off his kh 38s and rtb.
Ive literally just ditched guided weapons and bring the 100lbs and some 9ms and go stealth mode with irst (which is actually fantastic at searching for targets).
Half of fox3s are performing incorrectly (underperforming) and you wamt to add better version of missile which already works and flies as it should??? LOL
In the settings, there is a option to prevent the laser from turning on automatically when using munitions that are laser guided. It allows you to use them like JDAMs but if you turn on the laser, all the Laser/GPS bombs will try to go for the laser, not just the last one you dropped
