How to put a JACT

[SUHANG]

Hi guys. does anyone know how to put a JACT in the mission editor？ I want to set up a mission with JACT to designate the target with laser. I tried several times with a ground hammer, but when I contact it, it only report the location of the target but when comes to the laser, it says "no mark". And I tried the drones, it did reply me with the laser mark with the 1688 code. And interact with me when I fly to IP and begin the attack. It even report me "laser on " and the final stage. But when I drop the laser guided bomb, it said abord abord abord, you are not authorized for the attack. 

I believe I correctly set up the JACT uint with the task execution things, anyone know how exactly to set this JACT things up?

thanks

[Foka]

Do you mean JTAC?

[rob10]

The "ABORT, ABORT, ABORT" likely means you didn't follow ALL the radio steps required:

1 - call in at IP
2 - call for LASER ON
3 - call SPOT
4 - call "IN FROM THE N/E/S/W" as appropriate
5 - WAIT for "CLEARED HOT" confirmation or "ABORT, ABORT, ABORT" call

I haven't played much with the mission editor, but my 1st thought on "no mark" would be to make sure you have a clear line of sight to the target (check elevation between laser and target)

[SUHANG]

I am pretty sure on following on the right procedures for the JTAC.  It's just on the mission editor, when I am creating a JTAC. On the weapon practice mission of FA18, I successfully delivered the laser guided bomb.

[MadDog-IC]

1 hour ago, SUHANG said:

I am pretty sure on following on the right procedures for the JTAC.  It's just on the mission editor, when I am creating a JTAC. On the weapon practice mission of FA18, I successfully delivered the laser guided bomb.

@SUHANG

Attach the mission to your post so people can have a look at it, to correct any issue they might see with it.

Regards, Ian

Edited February 21, 2022 by MadDog-IC

[AstonMartinDBS]

On 2/20/2022 at 3:41 PM, SUHANG said:

Hi guys. does anyone know how to put a JACT in the mission editor？

Try one of this mission editor JTAC setup tutorials:

• https://youtu.be/wfqdphGdADM
• https://youtu.be/Q7wiyXD4Sr4

 

BTW: This subforum is totally wrong for your request. This one would fit much better. But maybe a moderator will move the thread.

Edited February 28, 2022 by AstonMartinDBS

[SUHANG]

This is the mission I edited. Please help me to check what is wrong. thx

test JACT.miz

[AstonMartinDBS]

10 hours ago, SUHANG said:

Please help me to check what is wrong. thx

Your mission contains a few unnecessary (advanced waypoint) tasks and requires some tweaking (AFAC callsigns and COMM frequencies for instance), but the communication worked for me and I managed to force the JTAC to mark the targets.

I've created a similar simple test mission with a Reaper as AFAC which marks the targets with laser only. You (F/A-18C) are supposed to deliver GBU12s. Contact the JTAC via 251.000 MHz AM, frequency is stored as Ch 1 in COMM 2.

Edit: All of my few test runs resulted in successful laser designation by the AFAC, but for any reason I always got the "ABORT ABORT ABORT" message immediately after each bomb release (which causes an abandonment of the laser designation and - of course - a dumb GBU trajectory).

JTAC Test Reaper.miz

Edited March 7, 2022 by AstonMartinDBS

[AstonMartinDBS]

On 3/7/2022 at 11:36 PM, AstonMartinDBS said:

All of my few test runs resulted in successful laser designation by the AFAC, but for any reason I always got the "ABORT ABORT ABORT" message

Well... typical user error, I skipped step 4 and didn't get the "cleared hot" message, of course

On 2/20/2022 at 6:30 PM, rob10 said:

1 - call in at IP    
2 - call for LASER ON    
3 - call SPOT    
4 - call "IN FROM THE N/E/S/W" as appropriate  
5 - WAIT for "CLEARED HOT" confirmation or "ABORT, ABORT, ABORT" call

I retried JTAC Test Reaper.miz and I was able to deliver 4 GBUs successfully.

Edited March 10, 2022 by AstonMartinDBS