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I don't know if this is intended or not, but I noticed the other day that on my squads training server, when I was attacking a SA-10, defended by several SA-15's, that the SA-15's didn't react to my HARMS if fired from POS RUK mode, yet if fired from HAS mode did?

 

I presume the mode fired shouldn't make a difference with regard to that... 

 

4 HARMS fired in HAS mode, all shot down,

 

 

Exactly the same target and approach, but fired in POS mode, all four not intercepted, SA-15's don't react at all.

 

 

 

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I noticed also that all missiles seem to overshoot the target slightly, however in still in range of the target so it does receive damage from the explosion.

Is this similar to how the real missile behaves?

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Am 20.1.2021 um 23:05 schrieb DoctorVixen:

I noticed also that all missiles seem to overshoot the target slightly, however in still in range of the target so it does receive damage from the explosion.

Is this similar to how the real missile behaves?

 

Partly. Depending on the POS mode selection (which is currently not fully modelled), the HARM will glide. That means that the missile will enter a shallow glidepath until it finds an emitting radar of the specified type (or any radar, depending on the setting of "target isolate", called "flex", which is also not modelled yet iirc). That means that if the radar is switched off, the HARM will enter a shallow "glide", allowing it to have a longer time in the air in case the radar goes active again, using the rather large seeker head angle of 60° off the nose if I remember correctly. HARM's that miss in POS mode have a tendency to overshoot- which can be several miles, especially in RUK (range unknown) which is the only mode we currently have in early access.
The missile will go for the radar emitter- which is usually on top of any vehicle. It should hit somewhere near that, but it isn't nowhere that precise as far as I know. However, if the operator switches off the radar and you have the glide option selected (and I think that is the case in the current DCS implementation), it might go just over the heads of those guys. But I have no idea if that aspect is modelled.
HAS goes straight for the emitter if I remember correctly, no flex, no glide. I'm not sure about that however.

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