Eagle7907 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 Does this happen to anyone else? You STT a target, shoot, and immediately missile gets trashed while target doesn’t do any evading that would cause a lock being dumped. There is no reason, that I can tell, would cause this. Sometimes it happens with AMRAAMs as well. Shoot, immediate target lost. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Win 10, AMD FX9590/water cooled, 32GB RAM, 250GB SSD system, 1TB SSD (DCS installed), 2TB HD, Warthog HOTAS, MFG rudders, Track IR 5, LG Ultrawide, Logitech Speakers w/sub, Fans, Case, cell phone, wallet, keys.....printer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_CK Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 (edited) There’s a lot of variables. If the bandit is hot and close, there’s no reason why it should drop UNLESS, the bandit is below you and your altitude is fairly low. Make sure he isn’t notching as well. Assuming you are doing that, then all I can say is I feel ya. ive had aim-7s fly off into the sunset wiyh the “lost” notification on my HUD seconds after firing. But I’ve posted tracks before long ago, raised the issue (as have others) and have been assured all is WAD. So I have to assume it is. but like you, I find it hard to believe that the F-18C radar would lose STT lock on a hot (or flanking frankly) target less than 10 miles away. all of that said, performance is MUCH better than in times past. Maybe I’m paying more attention now since aim-120s aren’t working well (pending completion of the new guidance stuff) Edited November 17, 2021 by Mike_CK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBStu Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 I always re-arm and get rid of 7s if I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastRifleRound Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 It does happen to me, and there are usually two culprits: 1. Your radar briefly tracked your own Sparrow instead of your target, then lost track of the Sparrow and now it tracks nothing 2. There is a "Ghost" your radar will often lock at 99nm. No one knows why. It will briefly track this then dump lock Both bugs are months old now. The Viper doesn't share them. Then again, the Viper doesn't arbitrarily show missile tracks. Maybe that will change. Supposedly an SU27 pilot said they should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted November 30, 2021 ED Team Share Posted November 30, 2021 On 11/17/2021 at 7:23 PM, Eagle7907 said: Does this happen to anyone else? You STT a target, shoot, and immediately missile gets trashed while target doesn’t do any evading that would cause a lock being dumped. There is no reason, that I can tell, would cause this. Sometimes it happens with AMRAAMs as well. Shoot, immediate target lost. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Attach a track replay showing the problem so we can take a look thanks Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foka Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 44 minutes ago, LastRifleRound said: 2. There is a "Ghost" your radar will often lock at 99nm. No one knows why. It will briefly track this then dump lock It's not a ghost, it's not a bug. It's enemy jammer. Notice that when you have range 99.9 nm on the HUD, on the attack radar screen you will see track on the top of the scrteen (outside of the scan area) with letter J by the side of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harker Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 It's not a ghost, it's not a bug. It's enemy jammer. Notice that when you have range 99.9 nm on the HUD, on the attack radar screen you will see track on the top of the scrteen (outside of the scan area) with letter J by the side of it.That explains it. A lot of aircraft equipped with ECM will turn them on when they're locked in STT. If the OP fired outside the burn-through range (~22 NM), then indeed this is expected behavior based on the correct ECM modeling. And it does look like it as well, the off-board HAFUs seem to be further away than 22 NM. The vCVW-17 is looking for Hornet and Tomcat pilots and RIOs. Join the vCVW-17 Discord. F/A-18C, F-15E, AV-8B, F-16C, JF-17, A-10C/CII, M-2000C, F-14, AH-64D, BS2, UH-1H, P-51D, Sptifire, FC3 - i9-13900K, 64GB @6400MHz RAM, 4090 Strix OC, Samsung 990 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle7907 Posted November 30, 2021 Author Share Posted November 30, 2021 It's not a ghost, it's not a bug. It's enemy jammer. Notice that when you have range 99.9 nm on the HUD, on the attack radar screen you will see track on the top of the scrteen (outside of the scan area) with letter J by the side of it.I know my problem isn’t jamming. But thanks for the informative post. That’s good to know.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Attach a track replay showing the problem so we can take a look thanksWill do.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Win 10, AMD FX9590/water cooled, 32GB RAM, 250GB SSD system, 1TB SSD (DCS installed), 2TB HD, Warthog HOTAS, MFG rudders, Track IR 5, LG Ultrawide, Logitech Speakers w/sub, Fans, Case, cell phone, wallet, keys.....printer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastRifleRound Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 6 hours ago, Foka said: It's not a ghost, it's not a bug. It's enemy jammer. Notice that when you have range 99.9 nm on the HUD, on the attack radar screen you will see track on the top of the scrteen (outside of the scan area) with letter J by the side of it. This happens with non-jamming contacts. It was acknowleged in the bug section then fixed for the most part, but AIM7 launches still trigger it sometimes. Remember in ACM you had to attempt lock 3 or 4 times as the radar would lock the "ghost"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle7907 Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 Attach a track replay showing the problem so we can take a look thanksI haven’t forgotten to do this. Lately my attempts to duplicate this has failed several times using both RWS and TWS. I even tried targeting an enemy missile to see if that was the culprit. The sparrow intercepted it. All my attempts do have the sparrow tracking the target minus the usual last second tendencies of the sparrow going rogue even though I still have a solid STT lock. I’ll keep trying. But this did happen several times when I started this complaint.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Win 10, AMD FX9590/water cooled, 32GB RAM, 250GB SSD system, 1TB SSD (DCS installed), 2TB HD, Warthog HOTAS, MFG rudders, Track IR 5, LG Ultrawide, Logitech Speakers w/sub, Fans, Case, cell phone, wallet, keys.....printer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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