The 20km limit seems to be just a standard limit. It can be a bit annoying for sure when trying to just stabilize on the ground beyond Pantsir range. I just tested a bit with the Lantirn, I could get a 15km lock max on clear weather against the 2s6. On other weather settings, it depends a lot on cloud coverage. If clouds are in the way, even a little bit, you can not lock. So if you are at the edge of a cloud or just a thin cloud, you just can not lock anything or your lock range is greatly diminished even if the FLIR can pick up everything just fine.
Yeah, clouds being this hard wall is really annoying. Was attacking a convoy the other day in SB. A wisp of cloud was between me and hte target. Could very clearly see the target, just the faintest hint of a cloud in front of me, but it wouldnt let me lock, in the end about 5km I had to break off to try and avoid the incoming SPAA fire (i failed and was destroyed)
They definetly need to refine how pods lock onto targets. they are blocked by anything and are really glitchy when 2 targets are close by
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Use sight stabilisation to gain lock with the pod I can lock targets 15km plus with it
I do currently. On average in SB, to lock onto a ground target, such as a tank in a battlefield, on a clear sky I have to be well within 10-13km before the game lets me lock onto the tank. I have never been able to get the pod to lock onto targets at those kinds of ranges. It might be SB being SB, but I dont know why that would make any difference.
I think the 15km are a game limitation, since I also cant get a tracking lock of the ADM-65Ds beyond 15km, and since the Pantsir exists it should be increased.
I never achieved a lock beyond 15km (I mean I honestly dont know if its like that in a match since I dont like to play top tier britian anymore but I dont think its different in test drive). I also dont use the sight stabilization key since its very annoying to stab, unstab, stab, unstab. I do use it once but then I use the “Activate target point” since it doesnt unstabilize you.
I did try it tho (like I said before in test drive) and it didnt change anything for me.
A report for TIALD has already been done internally.
we should include TPOD views being upside down after overflying the target in these fixes. no way in hell are they not stabilised against the horizon
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Could you perhaps also review my report on Litening that I linked? Or did you mean Litening already and not TIALD?
I meant TIALD, but regarding your report.
These sources do not meet the standard for secondary sources
Extra sources for Litening III:
Litening Targeting Pod - Defense Update:
The South African Air Force
See the rules for secondary sources;
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Mil-websites don’t fall into this category apologies.
What about the attached documents? It includes a source by SPIE, authored by an employee of northrop grumann as well as a brochure by northrop grumann of the Litening AT. Would this at least be suffcient for the pod on the F-16C?
I got a good clip of the TIALD not locking on at long range:
This is fairly standard in SB at least. This was it being good. I’ve had issues with getting it to lock until more like 10-11km before.
I’ve now acquired an additional source in “Jane’s Electro-Optic systems”, would this qualify together with the SPIE source as two secondary sources? If so, should I update the old report or create a new one?
Jane’s is not accepted by the devs sorry.
Would this not fall under " Authored works (secondary source) : Reference books on collections of vehicles/aircraft/ships (‘coffee table books’)"? It’s a reference book in this case, not an article.
Or has Jane’s just simply been “banned” by the devs as a source. Shame, I suppose the SPIE source only ever counts as secondary as well right?
Yeah due to the number of things Jane’s has gotten wrong it’s not accepted as a source anymore apologies that section isn’t clear on that.
Does anyone else have the problem where the generation of thermal is worse in test drive or custom battles? I have this problem on F-16D Barak. Litening II becomes gen 1 and I can’t switch to thermal view while using GBU-15(V)2/B. In normal battles it works, just in test drive and in custom battles they are glithced.
I suspect on the F-16C and F-16D, you either don’t have the NVD modification unlocked or just uninstalled. The higher pod resolution is fixed to the NVD mod on those. Not sure if that’s intentional but I actually think it isn’t now anymore (even though one of my bug reports got closed, confirming it’s intentional). Because they tried fixing it by explicitly adding the 500x300 TGP resolution to the NVD mod (which didn’t work, luckily… lol). In test flights using reference, it will load you in with a fully spaded plane so that’s why it works there.
Another way of seeing it is that the NVD mod “upgrades” the Litening II pods on the F-16C, D and AV-8B+ to Litening AT and III standard (which have higher resolution). But it’s probalby not intended. But then again, why are the F-16C and D running around with obsolete pods for their variants anyway, at the very least the F-16C with its JHMCS is post 2003+ when Litening AT was standard.
I don’t have problems with the locking that much, sometimes it flies off when trying to lock, which is annoying, but otherwise I can still use the targeting mode when locking, for a lack of a better word. I suspect you might have too many functions bound to the same button which makes it act weirdly, but I am not sure.
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I never even thought that the night vision mod would affect the thermal resolution, that is really odd, I had it researched, but I never bothered to buy it as it seemed pretty useless.
Also about the locking, I’ve asked around more and I figured out the cause. I was checking controls up with someone else and they were using Activate Target Point to lock onto vehicles, which meant that it wouldn’t destabilize the sight. It worked perfectly fine for a while but it started giving me troubles with locking and unlocking targets. I used to run Sight Stabilization before and after switching back my keybinds to that it works completely fine.
Thanks for the help tho, I guess my rant about it was for no reason xd.
It’s only useful in this case on the F-16C, F-16D and AV-8B+ due to the way their NVD mods are set up. Also on the A-6E btw, though it’s a premium so usually you will run all mods on it. On all other planes however, you can leave them off to save you some repair costs.
Glad to hear your problems have been fixed. Have fun with the targeting pods, gotta be one of my favorite systems.