SEA radar mode, take 2, respecting 1.15...

[hotrod525]

Well, as noobish as it sounds, seems like i learnt a forum rules. :book:

So, basicly, we all see that Harpoon build in the last Mini-Updates, plus some symbology into HSI. Question here, since SEA mode show contact like it show air to air contact, without any rendering (wich i guess is what is most likely the hardest thing to acheive) on the Radar screen, will we have having some sort of "basic placeholder" in a sea mode or will it come further down the road ?

 

 

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Edited July 2, 2019 by hotrod525

[backspace340]

Wags has said previously that the Harpoon will come initially with Bearing Only Launch mode, which doesn't need the ground radar (pretty sure that's what the symbology was showing too). So I wouldn't expect to get a placeholder SEA mode when we get the Harpoon - it'll probably come without any AG radar to start and then I assume we'll get the additional mode once SEA is ready.

[Harker]

Doesn't BOL mode just use INS and just turns on the Harpoon's on-board radar during the terminal phase? If so, we wouldn't need to use the A/G radar.

[hotrod525]

I know in BoL you dont need radar contact, but i see 2 issue:

 

 

-Unable to detect target at all, not a game braker just a "meh" factor.

-Rely on "hope" that missile chose the specific ship you want to engage, another "meh".

 

 

 

You can't attack an surface combattant group alone, that's for sure. But if you can't aim or assign missile to anything and hope, chance's are that we end up with 8 missiles striking the same ship. So that why i ask if it plan soon / with it.

[VFA41_Lion]

... we'll get the SEA a/g radar mode when it comes. BOL mode will be fine as is until then, if the mission is designed appropriately.

[toilet2000]

I know in BoL you dont need radar contact, but i see 2 issue:

 

 

-Unable to detect target at all, not a game braker just a "meh" factor.

-Rely on "hope" that missile chose the specific ship you want to engage, another "meh".

 

 

 

You can't attack an surface combattant group alone, that's for sure. But if you can't aim or assign missile to anything and hope, chance's are that we end up with 8 missiles striking the same ship. So that why i ask if it plan soon / with it.

 

That’s true for any Harpoon launch, with or without a designation. A designation with a Harpoon is basically a "look for ships around this point", just like the Viggen’s RB-15F Bx8 waypoint.

[QuiGon]

Well, both the RB-04E as well as the RB-15F (anti-ship missiles for the Viggen) allow some settings for attacks on convoys (e.g. attack the first ship detected, attack a ship in the 2nd line, pick a random ship, ...). But in most cases you won't know exactly what specific ship will be engaged by the missile.