Beeping or tone when using Laster guided GBU12

[Rhinozherous]

Hello!

 

When I use the GBU12 with TGP I get a high pitched tone long beep and after that a lower pitched long tone around the release... I was wondering if this is some sort of audio guiding or if I may have mistaken something else?

 

Thank you

[Tholozor]

That sounds like morse code, check your TACAN or ILS volume knobs.

[=Panther=]

A track would be helpful, because the RWR also makes beeps. However there is no audio associated with the laser or gbu delivery.

[Rhinozherous]

I think it is indeed the RWR or Missile Launch Warning... I thought there was no surface threat but I forgot about some tanks, they could have fired on me.

 

Tacan volume was off.

Wanted to know if there is audio guidance for lasing or something.

 

Thank you guys!

[MadCat1381]

As long as these tanks weren't radar guided AAA-tanks (Gepard, Shilka a.s.o.), you won't get any warning. And these guys are a surface thread, if you get close enough.

 

If they were AAA-tanks, you should have seen them on the AI.

[schurem]

It also can happen that your radar altimeter picks the bomb up and sounds a low altitude warning as it measures something very close to the plane.

[Rhinozherous]

As long as these tanks weren't radar guided AAA-tanks (Gepard, Shilka a.s.o.), you won't get any warning. And these guys are a surface thread, if you get close enough.

 

If they were AAA-tanks, you should have seen them on the AI.

 

I thought about the Missile Launch Warning System... if this is already functional on the F16? Not sure :huh:

This would also detect IR missile launches

[=Panther=]

There is no MWS on the Viper in DCS.

[Rhinozherous]

There is no MWS on the Viper in DCS.

 

I thought so because of the MWS switch on the Countermeasures panel in the plane... but I have rechecked it with the Chucks Guide and it says it is not available on the block 50 - good to know :thumbup: