reported earlier HARM in POS modes goes active too early (RUK, EOM and PB)

[Moonshine]

Theory:

in RUK, the HARM should have a search radius of 20nm around the selected steerpoint (according to the linked video below). this should ensure the HARM does not target something further out etc.

according to the early access manual (page 397), EOM should require much more precise target location information than RUK (or PB)

Now in my test, i placed 2 steerpoints. one on which i fire the HARM and the second one where the location of an actual SA-15 is.The goal here is, that the HARM will only attack a SA15 emitter around a specific steerpoint, not any other SA15 outside its 20nm search radius.

Test:

In this example I fire at a target steerpoint (kutaisi) with an SA-15 along my ingress axis, however outside of the 20nm search radius.

expected result:

HARM flies to Kutaisi, impacting on the steerpoint as it cant find any emitter there.

observed result:HARM_RUK.trk

HARM attacks SA-15 even though it is outside of the 20nm search radius around Kutaisi.

this does not reflect what wags talks about here (first 2min): 

 

Test 2:

after seeing that i was curious if the HARM in EOM does the same, even though the search radius around the selected steerpoint for the HARM should be even smaller than in RUK:

expected result:

HARM impacts steerpoint at Kutaisi 

observed result:HARM_EOM.trk

HARM kills SA-15, 25nm short of intended steerpoint

Test 3:

Same setup this time using PB mode

expected result:

HARM impacts steerpoint at Kutaisi

observed result: HARM_PB.trk

Harm kills SA-15, 25nm short of intended steerpoint.

 

Conclusion:

in all of the POS modes, the HARM seems to target the first possible emitter of the selected emitter it can find, goes active too early and attacks "wrong" targets. 

Edited June 5, 2023 by Moonshine

[Moonshine]

update:

added a second SA-15 on the intended target location just to see what happens.

funny enough:

in RUK, HARM targets correct SA-15 HARM_RUK_2.trk

in PB and EOM, HARM still kills the "wrong" SA-15 HARM_PB_2.trk HARM_EOM_2.trk

 

This is especially weird since RUK out of all the POS modes has the largest "search footprint" yet is the only mode where the correct target is engaged

Edited June 5, 2023 by Moonshine

[Lord Vader]

Hi @Moonshine

This was previously reported, thank you for your tracks, though. Quite exhaustive.

[Moonshine]

Its been over a year since that bug was reported here, its pretty big of a problem if there is multiple emitters of the same type in the mission and it would be nice getting that fixed. since the old report was locked, id like to simply bump it again.