Rippling Mavericks

[amalahama]

Hi,

Is it possible in the Hornet to ripple Mavericks as in the F-16C, by locking each seeker individually to different targets and then launching them in rapid succession? 

It makes sense that when one missile is locked and you jump to other missile, the lock is kept and you can lauch both rapidly

BR

[Foka]

AFAIK no.

[zildac]

You could potentially use marks points for each of the targets via the atflir, then cycle through. This works using TOO in the Harrier. No clue how the viper does this so can't compare.

[Kang]

It works with mark points to quick-slew your seekers, but you still need to get positive lock between your shots.

[amalahama]

Yeah I was aware of the markpoint technique, but I got inspired by this Tricker tutorial:

Instead of using markpoints, he assigns one target to the maverick, gets the lock, then change the missile selection and locks another target with missile #2, finnaly launching the missiles in salvo. Interesingtly in the F-16 the target locks are kept in each missile, but in the F-18 are not, although I would have expected a similar behaviour since Maverick's lock is done at seeker level, not aircraft level. Bug or feature?