JTAC tutorials?

[AngryViper.101]

Hi

Please send me some JTAC guides, I ca communicate with JTAC ground forces but not sure how / when to shoot laser guided bombs and in what direction to fly? How do my existing steerpoint relate to a JTAC? 

[Bri01]

Been playing for a year and still don't get it. Every tutorial that I've seen they make a WP where target is so they know where to fly 

[Frederf]

It helps to make a waypoint at the target but you don't have to. The tasking has a location and it's going to be in MGRS format. You then use that location to find the target. You can read a map or just know or plug it into a converter or find the target by luck or make a waypoint. Whatever helps you find the target JTAC is talking about. Almost always I make a waypoint at the given position because it's the simplest way to have a reference. In a simple airplane like a P-51 that doesn't have electronic navigation you could put a mark on the map with a pencil and then try to correlate the map mark to the real world.

A JTAC-coordinated attack is a process which may have restrictions. It should be clear what you can and can't do. In general JTAC is going to provide some kind of mark to assist in finding the target. Laser marking/designating is where things get confusing because JTAC can use a laser to mark or it can designate for a laser weapon and DCS kinda just rolls both concepts together as if they're the same thing. If you can self lase and can find the target then you can ignore the JTAC laser or LSS off his laser and then do your own designation. If you don't have a laser and need his designation then pray that the mission has been set up properly that everything can work how it should.

It's finicky sometimes. You say "spot" that you see his laser mark and then "in" and it's 50/50 if you get cleared hot or not. I think it helps to be not too close or too far at that moment.

 

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