Is there a way you can create or program planes to act as target drones?

[Boomer_G-Loc]

Looking for a way to practice aerial gunnery on some simple target drones.

Just want to set up a bunch of them and be able to target practice real quick without having to listen to and cycle past the long lesson narration of the m61a2 gun lesson....Just place a bunch of planes or drones flying a straight course to be able to approach them at various angles and shoot them down without them reacting, and quickly reload the mission for fast repetition and building up experience and practice.

I tried setting a bunch of friendly planes up and then ambushing them from behind, but then my pilot got smacked for Fratricide. So I tired using other planes from the other side, but they all scatter whenever I approach them. I just want to shoot simple target drones to develop reflex experience with the gun (and not be ripped for Treason afterwards every time)....

Thanks,

 

[cfrag]

Perhaps try to set up enemy planes (to avoid fratricide), and set their ROE as Weapons Hold, and NO REACTION to a threat. I've whipped up a basic mission to exemplify this for your analysis. Does that do what you want?

 

 

turkey shootI.miz

[toutenglisse]

6 hours ago, Boomer_G-Loc said:

...I just want to shoot simple target drones to develop reflex experience with the gun (and not be ripped for Treason afterwards every time)....

Thanks,

 

1 hour ago, cfrag said:

Perhaps try to set up enemy planes (to avoid fratricide), and set their ROE as Weapons Hold, and NO REACTION to a threat. I've whipped up a basic mission to exemplify this for your analysis...

I've also set up a little example. Same as @cfrag said. I just thought that if you want Targets to do some maneuvers as you approach them instead of flying straight forward, you can use some triggered aerobatics with "unit inside moving zone". (a lot of creativity possible here!)

In my example each time you come inside 2500 radius, they can climb or dive, 1500 radius they can perform left or right turn, and 1000 radius they can barell-roll left or right. Also with F10 radio menu you can toggle Targets immortal or not.

EDIT : in example Player is hornet. If you want to use another module, click on its icon and change the type. (to keep the same unit with names, or triggers won't work)

test-aerial-targets.miz

Edited May 31, 2022 by toutenglisse
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