WelshZeCorgi Posted June 18, 2021 Posted June 18, 2021 So my understanding is, if a 54 is in the air and the TID looses the track on the contact that 54 is guiding on, the WCS will create a fake contact, a track-hold contact, for the 54 to continue guiding on. It will basically treat the track-hold contact like a real contact, continuing to loft, peak and then glide down towards the target before going active at a programed amount of time before TTI, looking for the target. As the track-hold contact basically flies in a straight line, not maneuvering or changing altitude, there is a high chance it will not find a maneuvering target. However, if the real initial contact or just a new and very unlucky one, is near the track-hold contacts position and altitude, the chance of it finding, locking on and guiding itself towards it is very likely. If this is true, 'if' being as I'm not a self-proclaimed 54 expert, then the current 54s we have in DCS are bugged in this aspect. In DCS, when a track-hold is created after track file loss on a target with a 54 on it, the 54 has a tendency of stopping loft, flying straight and never activating its seeker to look for the target.
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