Shoot Down FA-18 Hornet?

[Tusker]

In both Single Player and Multiplayer, playing a BLUE FA-18C Hornet, I can track and engage a target that has been clearly identified as hostile, e.g. it is a red icon on my radar and SA page.

 

I engage and shoot it down, and I get a message up in the upper-left corner of my screen that an "Unknown FA-18 Hornet" has either been damaged or destroyed? This freaked me out initially.

 

I'm not aware of any Red Hornets, so why am I getting that message? I check in TacView, and the destroyed target is in fact a Mig or some other Red acft, not a Hornet. Am I miss-reading something?

 

eric

[takamba]

This is confusing, I must admit.

 

You get that message because you fly a Hornet.

It just means you damaged or destroyed something with your Hornet.

 

This message doesn't refer to your target.

[Tusker]

tkamba - Thanks that makes sense. It's just strangely worded. One would think that it would tell you what you shot down or damaged.

[dorianR666]

its a bug thats sitting there for a long long time, afaik it only happens in multiplayer

[Oceandar]

I think that was because the text font is too big to fit for the whole sentence.