Another year another cv9040 optical tracking post… Gaijins argument is because the gunner has to continue tracking the aircraft whilst the fcs calculates the lead using the lrf t’s not fully automatic so it doesn’t count… Even tho in game that’s what we’re doing anyway… because of the optical tracking gaijin removed the tracers from the cv90s proxy rounds after bug report. Personally I’d rather see 2 of things happen, 1. Give the cv9040s optical tracking but it triggers laser warning receivers on aircraft and is only as accurate as something like the shilkas early radars… or 2. Give the cv9040s a fictional tracer version of the proxy rounds so you can at least walk them onto the target like the begalpanzer.
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Why would it trigger a warning on a plane? It’s optical so it’s just the same as an IR missile with optical guidance and that gives off no warning
It was shown by two CV90s they don’t have to manually keep the vehicle tracked
All it needs to be is optical tracking instead of IR and make the strf in game manually aim towards the lead as that’s what the Lvkv does anyway
It would also automatically lead irl but in game you do it
Same with RBS70
It uses a laser range finder to calculate the lead
Yeah that’s how almost every spaa works
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What else do you want me to say? That you’re amazing and really smart? Lol
Good luck in your post im sure it’ll amount to f**k all just like any future conversation with you and your piss poor attitude.
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If you mean soviet by saying Russian than soviets got their first tank thermal onto tank in 1982, which is why in game T-80B has one.
It was Agava thermal, there were 17 made, we only know publicly one case of it being installed, there might be more.
In 1987 they made Agava 2, tested it on T-80U that same year, only made it into some production in 1992+, which is why most T-80U’s in game have thermals.
Soviets/Russians had their own thermal developments.
Tracking is something present even on T72B3 IIRC, some BMP3s modifications from 90s, so I dont see how more modern Russian tanks cant have it.
Plus theres countless footage of it.
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I haven’t seen anything on Russian thermals besides they bought some from France but if you can prove it fair enough, for tracking it’s a possibility they could.
As well as the T80 in game is essentially the BV, it has the upped armour, better gun (doesn’t actually matter), improved engine and the ERA modification
Thing is, as someone that can read Swedish and has researched this extensively, i have yet to find any sort of proof of the production line CV9040 having tracking. The CV9040 TD has it but that is/was only a technical demonstrator and not the production model. the UTAAS sight is a modular sight where you can add different insert modules that does different things. i have yet to see any evidence of the production model CV9040 having the IR-Tracking module installed.
it can certainly apply automatic lead, and it can with the help of laser range finder and trigonometry-calculations turn the turret to follow a point as it drives perpendicular to that point. BUT if the target moves when the CV9040 stands still, the turret wont follow it automatically.
Automatic lead is not in the game for any vehicle as far as i know and same goes for the ability to lock the turret to a point at a specific range.
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A video I sent has automatic tracking
And no there isn’t automatic aiming otherwise the Lvkv and Lvrbv would behave completely differently
this one is of the technical demonstrator at Hägglunds. its not the production model.
this video shows what i described, the laser-trig-calc function, its not automatic tracking in that sense.
they even talk about having to switch to “stationary target” mode for vehicles.
as for the anti air, that does a similar thing to the lase-trig-calc; it takes the differens between first and second lase and uses the change to continuously turn the turret and change gun-elevation at that lased speed, if the target changes direction or speed the system will not change its settings and will continue to turn and change elevation based on the lase. the target will then fly away out of the aiming point if the gunner does not re-aim and re-lase to the new heading and speed.
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This site also tells about them, but it has some mistakes.
Their reasoning is that they only give tanks automatic lead if they have real time stereoscopic rangefinding(requires two integrated sights on swivels like on the M3A3 and BMP-2M), rather than what the UTAAS does where it estimates lead using the traverse rate of the target and occasional rangefinding with the laser rangefinder.
It’s super arbitrary and I don’t agree with it, but that’s their reasoning.
Yes, and I’d like to see a LWS on the Strf 9040 B and C, with a similar point aim system the commander has in the video.
are there any tanks in game with automatic lead?
I didn’t think there were any at all.
No but at this point there should be
Absolutely, they even already have a function in game that could easily be converted to function like the laser-trig-calc tracking.
In arcade-ground you can target planes, hold a button to make the crosshair follow them and the lead gets shown as a line and a dot. They could just add that function to the laser range finder of those vehicles that has it IRL and remove the visual lead dot and make the tank aim at that point when the crosshair is on the middle of the moving tank.
If it’s just for air Idc as it being on ground removes the basically very little skill left