What Is Required to Get The Hawk Battery To Engage??!!

[AG-51_Razor]

What are the requirements for setting up a Hawk Battery so that it will actually defend a position? I have placed a Command trailer, 4 launchers, and the 3 different types of radar units but the flight of SU-25's I have attacking are able to just fly around overhead popping flares without a single Hawk missile firing! They are all set to a readiness state of Red and are Weapons Free. No one unit is more than 100 yds from another. What am I missing?

[AG-51_Razor]

Never mind. I got it figured out :doh:

[Looney]

What was the solution?

[Furia]

At least in Nevada I had the same problem and I discovered that I once in game I needed to change the readiness state and weapons state manually. Even if the battery is set Weapons free and RED, it does not fire. You need to place it in green, and weapons hold and then again in RED and Weapons free and then it works nice. I guess this is a bug

[Grimes]

Shouldn't have to change the alarm states to get it to shoot. On Auto it will change as needed, though it won't surprise people if you were manually changing it.

 

The requirements for the Hawk to fire changed when it got new models. The only changes though is you now have an alternative search radar (CWAR) to choose from and the "PCP" Hawk object is required for it to shoot. So if you have an older mission using the Hawk you will need to add the PCP object to the group in order for it to engage.

[Zarma]

Sometimes working, some other not.