How to drop new JDAMS

[Typhonus2]

Anyone know the procedure? Baltic Dragon released an update to the manual on Twitter, but I can't find launch procedures in it - only descriptions of the weapons themselves. I've tried designating with a TPOD, using both auto and direct modes, and all I get is NO ZONE on the HUD and weapon won't release.

Any ideas?

[OldFlyer]

Heading to bed so not in front of my PC but from memory you sort of follow this process:

1. go to the air to ground page and box the jdams you want to use.

2. go to menu 2 page and choose the smart weapons on the right.

3. On your tgp, designate the target you want to hit.

4. on the smart weapons page, the top left mfd button transfers the coordinates of your designated target to the jdam.

5. Once bomb’s away, press the next mfd button down to cycle to next station.

6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for next targets.

 

[Typhonus2]

Cool. Thanks. I assume there's some way to do this with either pre-programmed long/lat, nav points, or mark points to facilitate ripple drops, but I imagine we'll get that info soon enough. This information let me succeed. It was the smart weapons page that I was missing. Thanks!

[Bunzy]

55 minutes ago, OldFlyer said:

Heading to bed so not in front of my PC but from memory you sort of follow this process:

1. go to the air to ground page and box the jdams you want to use.

2. go to menu 2 page and choose the smart weapons on the right.

3. On your tgp, designate the target you want to hit.

4. on the smart weapons page, the top left mfd button transfers the coordinates of your designated target to the jdam.

5. Once bomb’s away, press the next mfd button down to cycle to next station.

6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for next targets.

 

 

Thank you!

[bfr]

3 hours ago, Typhonus2 said:

Cool. Thanks. I assume there's some way to do this with either pre-programmed long/lat, nav points, or mark points to facilitate ripple drops, but I imagine we'll get that info soon enough. This information let me succeed. It was the smart weapons page that I was missing. Thanks!

It is all in the updated manual. Smart weapons stuff starts at page 490, mission editor stuff to create lists of pre-programmed targets is pages 501-503. The PP stuff does work as I just tried it and managed to smoke 6 targets in one pass (you just transfer coordinates to each bomb in the smart weapons page in the jet)

[Ignition]

36 minutes ago, bfr said:

It is all in the updated manual. Smart weapons stuff starts at page 490, mission editor stuff to create lists of pre-programmed targets is pages 501-503. The PP stuff does work as I just tried it and managed to smoke 6 targets in one pass (you just transfer coordinates to each bomb in the smart weapons page in the jet)

where's the updated manual? I still have the 1.6 from 19/10

[bfr]

32 minutes ago, Ignition said:

where's the updated manual? I still have the 1.6 from 19/10

Here. It didn't quite make the deadline to go out with the update itself.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/upload/iblock/85f/sgxnzkzq0fqpsucpok0lll15wtw5n5m2/DCS_F-15E_Flight_Manual_EN.pdf

Edited November 17, 2023 by bfr

[Mad Dog 762]

I am having trouble transferring a pre-planned (CC) target to the JDAM.  Anybody got a walk through on it?  

[bfr]

4 hours ago, Mad Dog 762 said:

I am having trouble transferring a pre-planned (CC) target to the JDAM.  Anybody got a walk through on it?  

How far have you got with it so far?

- Have you set the target points up in the Mission Editor?

- Can you see those target points in the Smart Weapons page in the jet?

Once you've got the targets (missions) in a state that they show up in the jet it should just be putting it into CC MEM mode, use NEXT MSN (or NEXT SET if you have multiple sets defined) to step through them and MSN XFER to transfer the currently shown data to a bomb (then NXT STA to step to another bomb). Pages 499-500 in the latest manual revision (13.4.7.4. CC Memory Mode)

[ruddy122]

Thanks for the page numbers bfr it makes sense

For some reason it won't drop a JDAM from the left CFT in my DCS

Wings are fine

Lucky

[ruddy122]

It will release when caret is over second line from top

It looks like the JDAM Symbology for F-16

Except when computer releases weapon

Make sure in ME you put Mx.x for Example M1.1 Rafale

Hit Weapon MEM

Hit WPN Transfer

Should say STBY if right

To cycle DMPIs hit NXT MSN

 

[bfr]

10 minutes ago, ruddy122 said:

Thanks for the page numbers bfr it makes sense

For some reason it won't drop a JDAM from the left CFT in my DCS

Wings are fine

Lucky

There is a bug thread open for a few bits of screwy behaviour and I think I saw someone else mention an issue similar to yours.  Whilst not quite the same, i've had a couple of cases of the last bomb from a load refusing to drop for reasons unknown and then vanishing off the Smart Weapons page. To be fair, they did say it was still WIP.

Edited November 17, 2023 by bfr

[ruddy122]

Its not you

There's still some bugs but the ability to drop JDAMs is huge

 

Can't wait for AGM130 the ultimate GBU

[bfr]

4 minutes ago, ruddy122 said:

Its not you

There's still some bugs but the ability to drop JDAMs is huge

 

Can't wait for AGM130 the ultimate GBU

Oh yeah, had a lot of fun with them last night ruining the days of several independent targets in a single pass. Still a lot to learn and figure out though (including what is definitely a bug versus what is me being ham-fisted).

[Beirut]

Yeah baby! 

 

Love that JDAM action. Now the plane feels like what it's supposed to be. 

[fjacobsen]

I have tried programming the JDAM's with the Air to ground radar and trasnfer 6 different targets to 6 different JDAM's.

The coordinates for all JDAMS differ, but when I release them, they all hit the last designated target on the Air to ground radar.

On the SMRT page Wep Mem is shown, so I assume that the coordinates are transfered to the JDAM's

 

 

[DD_fruitbat]

Does anyone know how to in weapon memory mode, copy the coordinates from the nav on to a Jdam?

In the manual it says,

Quote

Weapon Memory Mode is the default mode for the system whenever the Smart Weapons page is entered for the first time. The targets can be uploaded in this mode either from existing designation by a sensor or system (such as TGP, ground radar, NAV or SIT) or manually entered by entering coordinates using the UFC. Target data uploaded from CC Memory to given station can also be edited in this mode.

I am presuming this means that if you have a '2.A' type of waypoint it should be possible to upload it to the bomb, but I can only see how to transfer using the Tpod, How do you change the source of the transfer?

 

Edit, nevermind, have worked it out.

 

 

Edited November 17, 2023 by DD_fruitbat

[BuLLeT.ZA]

1 hour ago, fjacobsen said:

I have tried programming the JDAM's with the Air to ground radar and trasnfer 6 different targets to 6 different JDAM's.

The coordinates for all JDAMS differ, but when I release them, they all hit the last designated target on the Air to ground radar.

On the SMRT page Wep Mem is shown, so I assume that the coordinates are transfered to the JDAM's

 

 

This is exactly the behavior I'm seeing.

Just had a better run now by doing exactly the same thing, but deliberately waiting until the "Designate" text disappears from the TGP/Radar.

The bombs all went for their assigned targets.

Edited November 17, 2023 by BuLLeT.ZA

[fjacobsen]

Seems You have to undesignate the Air to ground radar before releasing the JDAM's

Kind of makes sense.

[Bunzy]

2 hours ago, DD_fruitbat said:

 

 

 

 

 

 In this vid, were all those targets marked with steerpoints before hand? (in the mission editor)

[DD_fruitbat]

5 minutes ago, Bunzy said:

 

 In this vid, were all those targets marked with steerpoints before hand? (in the mission editor)

Yes, but its just the same if you create the steerpoints on the UFC once you spawn into a mission.

[Bunzy]

4 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

Yes, but its just the same if you create the steerpoints on the UFC once you spawn into a mission.

Ah I see. Neato!

[ruddy122]

Couple more things to get all JDAMs out now
Max DMPI per set 9 I.E M1.1 M2.1 is next set
Step to release RP messed up for now
TREL shows when to release

Enjoy


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[dorianR666]

unfortunately i find the current JDAM implementation straight up unusable

 

gbu54s on cfts for some reason refuse to drop majority of the time when in auto

gbu31s on wings sometimes disappear from smart weapons page when programmed

cycling stations sometimes skips one station so you cant program it - at the same time, the drop sequence doesnt jump through programmed bombs but through all bombs, so this unreachable unprogrammed bomb blocks the programmed bombs behind it in sequence...

sometimes the bomb drops while being in stby instead of rdy state, the sequencing clearly gets desynced somewhere

 

i have also found a new bug that causes designation with tpod sometimes temporarily move coordinate system by many miles (as if updt to random location but its indeed tgt). very annoying.

and exiting mission from f15e often crashes the game (didnt happen to me before).

Edited November 18, 2023 by dorianR666

[Zahnatom]

i noticed that i can't cycle through *all* of the bombs on my aircraft...

Lets say i have 6 gbu-31s. I can now cycle through 5 of them: Left wing, left forward fuselage, right forward fuselage, right rearward fuselage and right wing.

for some reason i cannot always cycle through all of the bombs on the fuselage