Alphamale

WOW, what really makes that video important is, HE DIDN'T EVEN CONTACT JTAC !!! He just set the codes and made sure there was a ground-based FAC and that was it !!! Or, what did I miss? Anyone???

It can't be the predator because that worked perfectly for the 65E...so there are no LOS problems or distance

Thanks for sticking with this...hey, try the Stryker as a FAC..you can keep the Predator...for some strange reason, the Humvee seems to work up to a point...it's weird first it asked for cannon and then as I turned toward the target area, I saw a designate diamond on the ground...let me try to get a track

Yep, they ask for cannon or gun all the time...and you can see that I have the settings for the group as AUTO/AUTO and I have tried Guided/Laser, Guided Bombs/ Laser, and even WP Laser, but no go for Type 2 if I have ANY rounds of GUN left...which, you have to admit, is very important because even with soft targets, there's no way you can say that it's logical to ask for guns, if you have let's say 50 rounds left and you have four trucks to take out

But why do all that, if you can be near as accurate with CCIP? Right now, I can't even get the JTAC to declare Type 2

Wait, I'd like to see your track showing the LGB actually hitting a target dead center due to ANY lasing platform...my contention is, that there IS a problem on the F18 side I haven't yet seen an actual track showing this regardless of how the ordinance was dropped...thanks

Yeah, it's actually the mission that Wags gave us when the 65E was introduced...I just modified it by adding a drone as a laser painter

If you check ME, you'll see that the loadout is 4 GBU12s and may or not have Gun ammo...you'll have to check because I was testing if JTAC would finally go with LGBs if I had no gun ammo...in either case let me know if you get a precise hit on any of the armor targets by saving the track and posting it back...also, if you don't mind, if you make any changes to the miz, could you please return that miz so I can see what you set and, hopefully, learn from this...thanks Laser Mav Test.miz

Have a mission that you'd care to share that demonstrates this guiding working perfectly?

Well, it's still not working as intended because I had armor and it still called for guns

Well, then what did DCS mean by telling us, we got the LGBs this update? We had them before this last update...at least we could use them as FF bombs with CCIP....what new feature did we supposedly get with this last update that was new for the LGBs? And when I say this, I mean that I have not seen any LGB try to correct for precise impact...they are still all freefall bombs

Hey, even if you get a Cleared Hot, there's no Azimuth Steering line and you never hear the bomb drop if you continue IN while holding the pickle button....ball and chain won't do it, or even SHOULD do it because that's a different type of deployment...there's simply no indication of a target being lased on the ground from the HUD symbology even when you select AUTO mode...the videos we saw had a Waypoint designated as the target, not a lasing platform operation

These were not thin-skinned vehicles and it would seem more logical to protect the pilot with lasing and releasing from a higher altitude than diving in on the targets with a less than pinpoint accurate system such as guns, but regardless, the ammo selected in the ME for this JTAC to call for was Guided Bombs and that's what he should do...we simply need the TGP to use the lasing system correctly...at least in single player...in MP you can probably use the AV8B or the AC10 to buddy-lase for you until we get the pod

Already mentioned this via this thread https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=227535

How do you lase a target with smoke? I assume you mean "designate" target AREA with Willie Pete (smoke)...problem is, JTAC wants you to use what IT thinks is best...I had four LGB's and JTAC wanted me to attack with GUNS...so once I emptied my 20mm canon via the ME, the JTAC FINALLY asked me to use the LGBs....and using the HUD to designate is a no go...that is not the same as lasing...At this point, I think using LGBs with an external target painter, is limited to only Multiplayer buddy-lasing

I'm also wondering how much do you have to alter the JTAC's settings...For instance, the JTAC has a setting in the ME where you can specify what type of weapon should be used for a certain group...you can set it to AUTO, or Laser, or ASM or ATGM, or EVEN Guided Bombs...and it's this last option I'm wondering if it needs to be set...you would think so, but so much right now is either not finished or is WIP, that I don't know what to expect

Yeah, I noticed that too...I expected to have ALL the bombs "code boxed" by using the STEP function...after going through all four stations, it should box up all of them just like the Laser MAVs...guess it hasn't been implemented yet

Yep, that's it. You actually had the flicker at about 0:37 in your video...I think the flicker is due to the triangle dipping above and below the "event horizon", shall we say, rapidly...you definitely have what I was reporting...and you can tell that it's wrong because first, you see the land as light (White hot IR) and the sky is dark (Cool IR) and that's ok until you lift the MAV seeker (triangle) a few degrees up, then all of a sudden, the sky in the MAV page switches to light colored which was supposed to be hot...anyway it's screwed up and they need to address it...but really, I'm at the point where DCS can find their own bugs as far as I'm concerned...they just don't give your report any credence anymore...they automatically assume that you're wrong, not them

Yeah, I don't think they really care...It has already been "stamped" as "Not Able to Reproduce" which means it will disappear unless a lot of people start reporting the same problem....and when they tell you that something is not a bug...they should tell you why, because some things you report, you know they're not "as intended"

know what? they can find their own bugs...why waste my time

Are you talking about deactivating "Write Cache" ?

Funny how you can see the contrails where the wings should be...this guy is missing both wings, his nose, and one tail fin...so how is he able to bank....YEP it's a bug

More like left-wing "collusion" with the Russians

They sure do know how to make those SU-25s...and no the pilot hasn't ejected...He's still actually trying to land this flying pickle I don't think this is "As intended"

I wish I could help, but it is my take to never rely on the Track recording/saving that DCS employs...their recording of inputs from the original recorder so you can jump in, is garbage as far as I'm concerned...if they'd just forget the "Jumping into" the track to take control, I really don't think they'd have this much trouble....I also use ShadowPlay and get great results