F-16C & CBU-97 SFW, ED went above and beyond

[Spudknocker]

So I was playing with the various weapons and systems of the F-16C when I came across the CBU-97 SFW, I do not fly the A-10C so i had not used this weapon in DCS before, and wow was I shocked when I watched the weapon view! It's amazing how much detail went into the animation for this weapon when everyone would have been happy with a cool effect that looked great from the cockpit.

 

I think the amazing effects and animation that went into the CBU-97 shows how much ED cares for their product and takes pride in its authenticity even in 95% of the playerbase will never see that one detailed animation.

 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Indeed, tank plinking extra-ordinaire :thumbup:

 

For comparison, here's a real-life video from the GPS/INS-guided version:

 

[bell_rj]

Yeah I was CBUing some innocent trucks earlier tonight and saw the floaty parachute things in F3 view - looked amazing. Top job ED!

[Revelation]

105 is even better, but server owners tend to ban them.

 

CBU-97 and 105 are the same thing. The 105 simply has GPS for wind correction and can only be dropped via CCRP.

[randomTOTEN]

I do not fly the A-10C

A common rookie mistake, you should try and fix it when you have the chance :thumbup:

Edited October 13, 2019 by randomTOTEN

[nighthawk2174]

Yeah its been like this for a very very very long time I mean they worked like this since 2012-2013 when I started playing

[Wicked.-]

Watching them in VR on my Index is epic. They were always my favorite cluster in that other Viper sim but seeing when the puck finally homes on the target and shoots that golden death dust is absolutely beautiful!

Edited October 14, 2019 by Wicked.-

[DeepSpace]

It doesn't have GPS.

 

GPS was considered, but only INS is actually used.

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app5/wcmd.html

[Niehorst]

If we would be writing in a COD Forum you would have beend kicked as NOOB!

sorry Spud, only joking.

 

I can remember it as it was yesterday when I read about ED's plans for the CBU97 animation for the A10C.

I had much more hairs (on my head)

But it was really awesome to see this badboy back in action after not flying the Hog for so many years.

[Kazansky222]

I can't wait to be able to adjust the HOF for the CBU-97 in the Viper

[=Pedro=]

I can't wait to be able to adjust the HOF for the CBU-97 in the Viper

 

I second that

[razorseal]

I've used the CPU 97 on the A10, one of my favs, but never had too much luck in getting multiple hits. Maybe 2-3 vehicles at most.

 

I'm glad it's available on the F16 now... Will be nice with CCRP and TGP on online servers for multiple vehicles.

[sk000tch]

Careful with them online, you won’t make any friends. Servers don’t handle them well

 

Problem w/ 105 is CCRP, hard for me to estimate lead on moving column. I almost like the 97 in the big better for moving targets. And LJDAM style container would be perfect, or f-16 post designate CCIP. Perhaps just decreasing fuzing time and practice lead w/ viper I’ll get better with them.

 

Related note...

 

They’ve come a long way since Vietnam era rockeyes (not sure why we we’re still using these until recently). I worked with a dude, he retired a few years back but was probably 6’5” and as solid as a 65+ year old guy can be. Didn’t talk about it much, but did like 3 or 4 tours in Vietnam as green beret. Occasionally he’d have a couple and tell stories maybe show a pic of his box of medals, most were funny shit like getting his big ass stuck in a tunnel or general stuff like being danger close to a b-52 drop. I didn’t know this at the time but I guess they’d come in as a formation of 3, each loaded up with over a hundred bombs. From a few hundred yards apparently the sound... can’t even distinguish individual explosions, it’s just a roar so intense feels like your inside are liquefying, ground shaking like worst earthquake imaginable, prone you are barely maintaining contact- just totally disorienting. I’m not doing story justice, but it sounded crazy. Didn’t talk about the bad memories, most guys don’t. But evidently Buffs would drop clusters back then. Not rockeyes, something else I don’t remember, with tennis ball sized submunitions w/ little tails that caused them to disperse over large area (described as being like those spinners that fall from trees). They spent some time in countries we weren’t supposed to be I guess, with no artillery or CAS, so the 52s would drop em and cover huge area. I guess that shit was even scarier, like a hundred thousand of these things with some sort of molten metal warhead that produced a combo shrapnel/incendiary. Anyway, guess that was a site to see, and scary as hell because they didn’t all go off, so they we’re always looking for these little balls. Anyway, sorry off topic, I was maxed when I heard 52s dropped clusters considering what a single 105 does.

 

Fast forward 50 years to BLU 108s, with near jdam CEP and a high pK over an area of like 500,000 sq ft... and the friggin parachute! Imagine rolling in a BTR and seeing that, then seeing the skeets fire/spin off.

 

Unfortunately I guess even w/ the self-destruct, I think Kuwait had like half a million unexploded submunitions to clean up, but I think Kosovo is what really got them banned. We dropped so damn many they are still cleaning em up (I won’t cite the civ casualties, but they’re banned for a reason).

 

But ya... so, fun to drop on a column of BTRs though :)