Locheed Martin AN/AAQ-33 Sniper advanced targeting pod

[wasizyayo]

Some aircraft have AN / AAQ-33 Sniper advanced targeting pod on F-16 and A-10C, so please make AN / AAQ-33

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But probably not used by ANG Block 50s in 2007...

[Dee-Jay]

According to the info we have, USAF Block50 lost the TFR capability with AAQ-13&14 with the OFP4.2 (software update) somewhere after 2002 - 2003 mainly because low level TFR+FLIR is no more a USAF doctrine (replaced by NVGs) ... but "all" B50 are still wired and could retrice the capability anytime with a proper software update. MLU Block50 still have the capability to carry and use the AAQ/13&14. Seems that F-16 at Luke AFB still uses the LANTIRN for training.

We can say that it is rather tied to a given tail number rather than to a given block.

 

About the Sniper ... I'll check.

EDIT: AN/AAQ-33 Sniper pod first deployed: January 2005 on F-15. On F-16 in 2006.

Edited December 30, 2019 by Dee-Jay

[Oceandar]

Some aircraft have AN / AAQ-33 Sniper advanced targeting pod on F-16 and A-10C, so please make AN / AAQ-33

From my understanding CMIIW, they would make it as long as they have enough docs and data about it. And certainly allowed to do it. Its still planned and the decision is not final.

[sk000tch]

According to the info we have, USAF Block50 lost the TFR capability with AAQ-13&14 with the OFP4.2 (software update) somewhere after 2002 - 2003 mainly because low level TFR+FLIR is no more a USAF doctrine (replaced by NVGs) ... but "all" B50 are still wired and could retrice the capability anytime with a proper software update. MLU Block50 still have the capability to carry and use the AAQ/13&14. Seems that F-16 at Luke AFB still uses the LANTIRN for training.

We can say that it is rather tied to a given tail number rather than to a given block.

 

About the Sniper ... I'll check.

EDIT: AN/AAQ-33 Sniper pod first deployed: January 2005 on F-15. On F-16 in 2006.

 

 

The problem is that HTS does not work with litening. HTS will work, but S7, which was widespread by our time frame, could not be dual pod with litening. Basic software compatibility but also litening lacked multiple target cueing, image processing algos for target categorizing and storage, self contained datalink, and zoom to perform wild weasel mission at acceptable ranges. Unfortunately that kinda sucks, but perhaps they will patch something together.

 

Not sure what you're referring to with the MLU and 13/14s, Sniper ATP had 5x the effective range of lantirn. A 200m FOV at 50,000ft, beyond jet noise for even a lancer, is so drastically better than anything we have modelled that I question the games ability (or our hardware's) to render it. I suppose we'll see. Atlir is still planned for hornet right? IIRC that's ~50-60x flir zoom at twice the resolution of litening, so we'll see if its a hardware/software or documentation issue eventually.