Trying to understand what the purpose of the targeting pod on the FJ-4B VMF-232 since I can’t test it without paying the 70 Gaijin or so to purchase it.
As far as I can tell, I’m assuming you can’t slave the AGM-12B to a targeting pod POI? Nor does the aircraft have CCRP, so you wouldn’t be able to mark a position for a dumb bomb drop.
If anyone has any experience or insight, I’d love to find out more.
It’s the command pod for the Bullpup
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Apparently,the “Targeting Pod” must be equipped in order to use the Bullpups
So i think that pod is needed to guide the missiles. The Bullpup is MCLOS,with corrections provided by a movement of a joystick (located inside the cockpit) that sends radio signals to the missiles. Early aircrafts with this missile obviously didn’t have the tech to send them on its own,so the pod is needed
Seems kind of pointless of an aircraft since the A4-B can do the same thing without the targeting pod albeit with two less AGMs at the same BR.
Thanks for the info though.
Because A-4B integrated the electronics for it
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That’s because the A-4B had the tech inside to guide the missile. The A-4 is a dedicated ground attack aircraft,and the A-4B was the first modification of the A-4 that, amongst other things,added the possibility to mount Bullpups. This means that when the FJ-4B (that is also a ground attack-based variant) was created,they wanted it retrofitted with Bullpups and so a radio pod was needed.
In fact,if you see all the vehicles in game that mount the Bullpup,all of them are either ground-specific variants and so they’re focused on this topic or they’re more modern that the FJ-4B,and so they have the tech to guide it without problems
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Yeah I understand and agree. Just from a practical perspective for playing the game, the A4-B makes more sense.
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It is indeed. It’s nimble,more agile and has more ordnance
If you can get it,the A-4E is even better with a .3 raise in BR: CCRP for the bombs, “rudimental” RWR,Countermeasures and you have A LOT more ordnance,like Zunis,AGM-62 Walleyes,Mavericks amd even 5 Bullpups instead of 3
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