LastRifleRound Posted July 28, 2020 Posted July 28, 2020 Should the actual designated point be continuously updated when the LITENING is in PTRK or ATRK? It's not just a big deal for moving targets. As of right now, there is never a good reason to use ATRK, particularly when delivering iron. The most accurate way to deliver bombs is to keep it in OPER and continuously update the point yourself to be the middle of your target. The higher you are, the better since laser ranging doesn't currently recognize ground objects. Getting a continuously updated PTRK/ATRK would eliminate this issue, but I do not know if it works this way in the real jet. You can test this yourself. PTRK a building (I like the boiler house object) from 11nm out at angels 10. Start a dive attack w/7 seconds to go, diving to 15-20deg, hold till release. If you do not update the designation point by TDC depress close to release, you will notice overshoot, as the designation point refers to the position of the diamond cross hair before PTRK was initiated, way back 11nm ago, without taking into account the intervening building. If you update the designation without slew at 10 sec, 7 sec, and say 2 sec before release, you will hit with just one bomb 98% of the time, and with 2 nearly 100%, even with a cross wind. The most obvious case is tracking a moving target with PTRK. The designation diamond only updates when you TDC depress. It isn't this way on the A10, not sure if it should be this way in the Hornet. Also makes MAVF's a pain in the butt, as you have to sensor select back over to the TPOD to keep TDC depressing to get the MAVF to grab the right target if it's moving.
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