Radio Navigation Aid For Ships

[AG-51_Razor]

I wonder if ED could provide for the Mission Builders to allow NDBs to be activated on ships? On any ship would be awesome however at the very least, any ship with a helideck on it that allows you to base a helicopter aboard it should be a no-brainer. The carriers have a method in the ME that allows us to activate a Tacan on it if we so choose so it doesn't seem to me that it would be too technologically difficult to provide the same capability for many of the other ships in the game. To be clear, I am not asking for a Tacan, which is useless on our helicopters, rather a simple NDB is all I am asking for.

[Northstar98]

All we need is for the radio transmission trigger to be assigned to units, or the ability to assign trigger zones to a unit.

ADF equipment is present for this sort of thing on all our current helicopters, so this should be in the realm of possibility, provided the above is implemented (which, about that, why is it only assignable to trigger zones, and not units, you'd need a unit to provide the transmission in the first place).

Edited November 21, 2021 by Northstar98

[AG-51_Razor]

Well, you are right about the radio equipment being available and it is quite simple to establish a trigger zone that moves with a unit such as a ship. The problem is that the ME will not allow you to place the radio equipment aboard the ship because the ship is on the water. And again, I totally agree with you in that it should be fairly simple to do this.

[Northstar98]

Ahh, I see, this is more a problem of ME placement restrictions, not letting you spawn non-amphibious units on board ships.

Personally, apart from the inclination check for aircraft starting from ground, I think these restrictions should be turned off, and instead rely on mission editors to place things in sensible places. I also think that you should be able to place ground units on board ships without the mission editor restricting you, this is really going to be a must if amphibious operations ever gets anywhere.

This is something I brought up in this thread.