thats the whole point were trying to prove??
then it cant lock it, can it? what would that test do besides prove it has a finite FoV?
But the range of a tracking lock is around 13km in almost every case, which is the point here.
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post number 5180 and still no proof of this missile being real
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we all seem to be talking about something else here and idk where that 13km number comes from but that just made up, ive had track locks way further then 13km.
Glop of nothingness being discussed like it’ll help either way.
Track locks further than 13km can happen but counting on that isn’t something you should do.
Considering you thought the thing from the clip was actually a tracking lock makes me wonder.
then you didnt saw the clip or youre lying. The missile indeed didnt have a track lock when i fired it, and i never claimed that, but got one during flight, thats why you can CLEARLY see the missile following the FlakRakRad, and didnt just go straight.
As I said earlier, if there’s a vehicle in it’s FoV at the moment it can establish a track lock, it will do so regardless if it was fired from 15, 20 or 30km away.
Firing outside of that constant ~13km track lock range is risky due to obvious reasons, as target can just move outside the missile’s FoV and it’s game over.
thank you for the obvious, nobody denied that.
Your friend did, multiple times. The entire point of this was to show a TRACK lock that matches the ranges he claimed them to be possible at.
So where’s the problem actually ?
Technically 20km isn’t even the maximum value. Similarly to tracking ranges of IR missiles (radar not sure, they may instead just be range gated) or laser acquisition ranges on SALH weapons, the value listed is some particular range for a particular scenario. Which means you can exceed the listed value as well.
Against ships for instance you can get way longer tracking ranges:
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What’s the point of all this conversation, generally speaking
Id guess the theoretical maximum is closely tied to the Tpod ranges, which was 20km and is now 30km.
But I do wonder if CCRP allows for targets to be engaged and eventually tracked at ranges even greater.
Honestly idk, I just occasionally read what’s new in here.
I thiiiink it had something do with the Kh-38MT IIR seeker at some point, about the tracking ranges of that thing in-game vs the kinematic range of the weapon, and how the seekrs are all the same copy paste anyway. Something like that. Otherwise all off-topic pretty much yeah.
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How does CCRP come into the equation if I may ask? TV/IIR all require a point lock at least to even be allowed off the rails, so that will the limiting factor for those weapons. And point lock seems to be roughly if not simply just limited to the max TGP range, so 30km now yea. At least I can’t seem to get a lock at all for 30km+
point lock is not purely restricted to TGP range, I was trying to test mav flight performance and was unable to get point lock until roughly 25km in pretty decent weather
I think it is limited to the 30km range, it’s just that the maverick’s point lock range is limited to 24km (as per the gamefiles and spreadsheet) and unlike target tracking ranges, this one does not seem to change (only due to weather I guess, but that’s just because weather is just clouds/fog blocking LOS I think).
I feel the point lock range serves as a hard cap on the tracking range as well.
KH-38MT has IOG and AASM have GNSS and so might be able to to target a fixed point using the map mark functionality and then be fired off. The question is whether they will start to track a target when in range or not.