Anti-missile interceptors not targeting bombs?

[WelshZeCorgi]

Hi, so I noticed that while anti-missile ships and land units like TOR will target and fire on cruise missiles, high speed kitchen as-4, glide bombs, HARMS, stuff like that to various degrees of success, these same systems will not even attempt to fire on other munitions like iron bombs, lgb and GPS guided bombs. 

 

Is this realistic? If not, can we count it as a bug?

[GGTharos]

It's not a bug, and it's a toss up whether it's realistic or not.  I mean think about this - in the case of a single bomb, ok, but when an F-14 with 18 of those suckers flies by and drops them, what should that SAM be doing?   Trying to shoot that F-14 down, or attempt to shoot at 18 bombs which it couldn't possibly intercept in time - and what if it's a flight of 4 F-14s dropping all this stuff?

 

So, literally realistic no, it's not - they should be able to attack as there are no physics preventing that from happening.   But would they?

Edited March 4, 2021 by GGTharos

[WelshZeCorgi]

32 minutes ago, GGTharos said:

in the case of a single bomb, ok,

 

Okay, well there have been plenty of times where I just drop a single GBU on a TOR from 35,000 feet, so it couldn't kill me, therefore giving it no choice but to intercept the bomb, but they never do. Cause it couldn't. There doesn't seem to be a line of code that allows the TOR to do this. 

So what's the argument? There's no point in coding this into anti-missile interceptors because they would rather target the attacking platforms? Or because it has too many to intercept? (which I don't get by the way, if I shot 100 AS-2s at a single AB class ship, it's still gonna try to shoot them all down. Just because a large number of them are going to get through anyway, the AB might as well not try at all in the first place?) 

 

But if I get the TOR in a position "in the case of a single bomb, ok". The TOR will still not defend itself by shooting down the LGB, even if it's its only option because the attacking platform is outside its range. 

 

It's still a tossup since I'm not sure if bombs are harder to track or get a return off the radar or what the interceptors are capable of, but the "because the crew doesn't feel like it" argument doesn't feel like a compelling argument. 

[GGTharos]

The line of code is 'if it's this class of thing (missile, aircraft), attack it, if it's not, leave it alone' ... that's all it is - it has nothing to do with RCS or anything else.

 

Whether the result you get is realistic or not is another matter.