Required SAM components

[Stratos]

So, what's exactly neded to make the Sa2 to fire? I added a P-19, a Fan Song and 6 launchers, everything in Excellent to the same group, I got iluminated and locked, but the SAM never launched, any idea?

[Emmy]

Stuck a few SA-2s with accompanying Fan Song units around the NTTR and discovered that if you approach them from the side / behind, they are blind. They don't even show up on the RWR.

 

Approached from head on, they will most certainly fire at around 15 miles (on Excellent skill) when I was at FL150 in a Warthog. Relatively easy to beam and spoof.

[Reflected]

Stuck a few SA-2s with accompanying Fan Song units around the NTTR and discovered that if you approach them from the side / behind, they are blind. They don't even show up on the RWR.

 

Approached from head on, they will most certainly fire at around 15 miles (on Excellent skill) when I was at FL150 in a Warthog. Relatively easy to beam and spoof.

 

So that's the issue, then. That explains everything. Surely it's a bug, isn't it?

[Emmy]

So that's the issue, then. That explains everything. Surely it's a bug, isn't it?

 

Good Question...

 

From what I've observed so far, a Fan Song unit does not appear to rotate or elevate in any fashion. I honestly don't know if it should.

 

What is odd is that the radar is not generating any side lobes at all such that unless you are right out in front of it, it doesn't show up at all on the RWR despite being in RED alert state. Makes it easy to flank and kill, but it would be a nasty surprise if you unwittingly flew from behind to in front of one.

 

IF the Fan Song is not meant to move, then I guess SA-2s are meant to be a "wall" type of weapon instead of a "bubble"? You could put them along the Iranian coast facing south but not use them to defend an airbase unless you have four units facing four different directions? I'm not sure how / why the launchers were arranged in a flower petal shape if the radar can only watch one quadrant?

Edited October 2, 2018 by Emmy

[Emmy]

People with more ME experience than I have say to add a P-19 to SA-2 sites to "make things more sporty"

[Stratos]

So, the SA-2 is not firing yet? Anyone was able to make that thingie to shoot? And If yes, how they achieved that?

[Emmy]

Yes the SA-2s will shoot...

 

Add a P-19 to each SAM site.

 

OBTW, the Fan Song units do rotate. Their pivot point is all the way under the main body of the radar, just at the trailer. Saw it with my own eyes tonight during an all AI mission on the PG Map.

The launchers can change their azimuth and elevation as well!

[Duster]

they turn, they frame the target, but they do not shoot also with the p19

[Emmy]

they turn, they frame the target, but they do not shoot also with the p19

 

 

Don't know what to tell you. I see them shoot just fine.