painting targets

[upyr1]

I was wodneirng if DCS will allow some one to laz a target for an other player or AI aircraft or have an AI unit laz a target for you?

IMHO this would rock.

[GGTharos]

Maybe when DCS releases an aircraft that is capable of using buddy lasing ... :)

[CAT_101st]

Not with the Black shark. The system used on the KA-50 is a beam riding missle. So no buddy lasing till the A-10 or AH-64 releas..:book:

[ThunderChief]

Is the laser beam modelled to that extend that if to Ka-50 lase to targets in that way that their laserbeams cross each other it might have an effect on the missles?

[Weta43]

If you try shining two torch beams across each other - you'll notice that they don't have any effect on each other - so in the unlikely event that 2 laser beams cross, this will only pose a problem if the missiles actually hit each other en route,

[DarkWanderer]

this will only pose a problem if the missiles actually hit each other en route,

I think, he's about acquisition of other helicopter's guidance beam. E.G. when two 50's, flying in a close formation, shoot at one target. Shkval rasters may intersect in this situation.

Edited August 23, 2008 by DarkWanderer

[CAT_101st]

if 2 KA 50 are firing on the same target the beams wont cross they will meat at the target no problem. now if 2 ka 50s are close enough to cross beams that will afect the missle you have more problems than you know about.

[GGTharos]

Yeah. Just remember, if someone asks 'are you a god?' you answer yes :D

[joey45]

Yeah. Just remember, if someone asks 'are you a god?' you answer yes :D

 

"why don't you pull the trigger and find out"

[DarkWanderer]

if 2 KA 50 are firing on the same target the beams wont cross they will meat at the target no problem. now if 2 ka 50s are close enough to cross beams that will afect the missle you have more problems than you know about.

CAT_101st, this may be a revelation for you, but Vikhr missile has sensor on back, not in front. And it's guided not by a single beam, but by a complex configuration of multiple ones. This configurations can intersect.

Edited August 24, 2008 by DarkWanderer

[Weta43]

The guidance laser effetively forms a narrow cone. The missile stays inside the cone & the sensor looks back, not sideways. If you lined up fairly closely behind another Ka-50 & shot, maybe the cones would overlap & the sensors become confused, but if the cones cross at a reasonable angle - then as far as I can see the only way they're going to interfere is if the missiles phsically collide.