More complex chaff and flare modeling

[DSplayer]

Currently we have 2 types of flares and 1 type of chaff that aircraft can use. I would personally like a more complex system for chaff (i.e. differing effectiveness depending on the weight of cartridges, etc.) and flare (I.e. burn time, IR spectrum, etc.) which could bring a more accurate simulation for countermeasures.

 

At the moment, in the situation for flares, we do not have anything similar to the flare cartridge that BOL IR uses (which deploys in more of a streak instead of a single flare round: video).

 

The current LAU-138/BOL chaff rounds currently have to fire basically 4 at a time and limit you to a max of 40 discharges even though the rails can carry 160 pouches of chaff because of the fixed effectiveness of chaff. This is because the BOL chaff cartridges is roughly 1/4 of a typical chaff round that could be fired from a normal CM dispenser but it had to be balanced in a way for it to be fair.

Edited November 3, 2022 by DSplayer

[Exorcet]

Before adding different types, I think more accurate modeling of the effects of CM's are needed. Seekers need to be better at filtering out chaff as it slows down, or when the chaff deploying aircraft isn't in the notch, for instance

[DSplayer]

21 minutes ago, Exorcet said:

Before adding different types, I think more accurate modeling of the effects of CM's are needed. Seekers need to be better at filtering out chaff as it slows down, or when the chaff deploying aircraft isn't in the notch, for instance

Yeah that’s also super important as well (and also would require another wishlist post lol) and I hope we would get those soon. I just know that IR modeling for IR missiles in this game is super simplified to levels that even WT has more complexity and that would also require both different flare types and the IR modeling redo. 

Edited November 3, 2022 by DSplayer