Zone to arm/disarm the carried weapons before/after the flight

[Ala12Rv-Birdman]

I wish there were an area close to the active runway for arming the jet´s weapons prior to departure, and secure them after the flight.

I mean remove/install the safety pin on every weapond loaded (altought those pins are actually not visually implemented yet)

That would increase the feeling of carrying live weapons aboard.

[sirrah]

2 hours ago, Ala12Rv-Birdman said:

I wish there were an area close to the active runway for arming the jet´s weapons prior to departure, and secure them after the flight.

I mean remove/install the safety pin on every weapond loaded (altought those pins are actually not visually implemented yet)

That would increase the feeling of carrying live weapons aboard.

Yep, that would indeed be awesome (and realistic). However, two things:

• Most DCS airfields (except for a few of the bigger military ones such as Al Dahfra and Incirlik) do not accommodate for such a feature (no ramp near the runway)
• This feature also would call for ground crew personnel (which I expect will take a while)

 

Right now we'll have to lean on mission creators to be creative and manipulate AI taxi behavior by blocking taxiways. If only we had one infantry unit without a gun in his hand, this would all look at least a tiny little bit more realistic.

Edited November 24, 2022 by sirrah

[Ala12Rv-Birdman]

You're right  @sirrah.

Sometimes I actually add some statics and triggers to simulate that thing on the missions I create. That could be handled in different ways, even in the airfields with no space for that, because it could be just something like adding an option via F menu when reaching the runway threshold (or before taxi, to make it simpler) to remove the safety pins. A more sophisticated way would be using some static crew or even an animated one doing that stuff.

But that's not what I wish for, as I know that would take so much effort from the team for such an unnecessary thing. But an F option for controling that event (and the option to bypass that requirement for the people that wouldn't not like to wear unusable weapons if forgetting to remove the pins) would be great!