Wdym. Did they brake GNSS guidance this update (I haven’t really played the AASM for a while)
10m deviance. Basically makes anything >500kg explosive weight nonfunctional unless you salvo a half dozen at a target. Which you will note is incredibly less than ideal if you only have half a dozen to begin with. Trialed 8 passes in test drive, only scored 1-2 kills per pass with 6 AASM launched each pass, with 1 pass having no kills. This included being launched against hard and soft targets, soft targets often the deviation would put the weapon so far off course it just wouldn’t do anything.
Further testing leads me to assume they’ve weighted it for the outer edges, as I refuse to believe I’m this unfortunate. Having watched the impact, it seems the weapon favours the outer edge of the 10m deviance, and only on closing with the target, consistently deviates to another point tending towards the outer edge of the claimed deviance. This behaviour appears consistent. I assumed the deviation did not impact the laser guidance, but it appears to carry over to that too, but is significantly less consistently present.
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Oh yeah that has to be wrong for the AASM GNSS guidance at the very least.
Could be worth a report. Probably going to be refused tho, since they don’t model specific GNSS guidance for different weaponry (or GNSS type), and probably won’t because it would not favor the Russian GLONAS since GPS (and Galileo, if used by the AASM now) have far better accuracy, in the <1m range for military applications
No worries, it’s going to be reported most probably soon I would guess. Just going to need to show that AASM uses GPS and that GPS as 1m accuracy, and that AASM (not IR) can reach that 1m accuracy
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Everything I can find from a quick search actually states the GPS/INS AASM to have a CEP of 10m, while the IR one has a CEP of 1m, which is why the IR one was used for strikes requiring much higher accuracy. Its possible/likely they improved it since then, but unless someone has sources stating that explicitly, the change actually makes the AASM when using GPS only more historically accurate it seems.
The thread itself supports that actually;
Issue with it not killing stuff is likely more due to gaijins underperforming HE damage models, which effect every HE munition.
They changed it a bit after the Tusk Force update went live, the AASM Hammer doesn’t leave a smoke trail anymore
(I swear the bomb is in the centre of the screen)
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for a 10x more expensive kit to have such a garbage CEP is pretty disappointing
JDAM can do 1.7m CEP and GBU-39 sub-1m CEP
Thanks to Panda for taking this video, I can confirm that it is now low/no smoke.
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They may not have (or be able to advertise for export) access to Y- or M- Code modes that improve accuracy, or it may also be referencing non-best case accuracy as even GPS isn’t constant as it depends on the relative location(s) of the visible satellites.
Currently AASM Hammer variants are not counting toward the completion of the new guided bombs decal task completion. Even though other rocket assisted guided bombs like the skipper and the agm 130 do.
This is with both AI and player controlled target kills.
Can someone report this to the devs?
you should try to report it. it should be a pretty easy one, just fill out the necessary information, put a clear title, and describe the issue clearly. I dont think you really need any sources for these types of reports but if you could put screenshots with times (before match task progression, match with kills, after match progression) that would probably help
I did, and I believe it was deleted.
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I disagree. AASM is an upgrade that turns a bomb into a guided weapon with a rocket motor. That is the definition of a missile. While things like Paveway, JDAM, and Spice are bombs since they have no self propulsion AASM and Skipper are certainly ATGM’s.
AASM and Skipper are AGMs/powered glide bombs, they’re not specifically designed for tank killing.
Air To Ground Missile
rocket booster is optional
Yes, it’s a range extension kit (REK). In principal, I have seen it installed 99.9% of the time
The “to” in Air to Ground Missile is omitted in the acronym usually. ATGM is generally Anti-Tank Guided Missile.
Air to Ground Missile is typically abbreviated to AGM, to avoid confusion with Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM).