Rb75 not locking at night

[F19_CoNa]

Not sure if it should be able or not, but I cannot get it to lock on to anything at night, even if it's a ship with lights on that it can see easily.
It does not say anything about night operational or not in the manual.

[razo+r]

It's TV guided so I guess it needs enough contrast to lock, which the nav lights on a ship do not count for. 

Maybe try it in combination with battlefield illumination, like the illumination bombs or perhaps illumination flare from another aircraft. 

[Machalot]

It seems the seeker model for Mavericks in DCS is not truly contrast-based.  It seems to require the presence of a live unit, for example if you see a unit as a dark spot among similar-looking dark trees, you can only lock onto the units, and not the trees, despite having the same contrast.  Maybe there's also a binary setting that says "it's night, targets are only visible in IR and not the visible spectrum", ignoring the actual contrast.

[TLTeo]

On 3/29/2024 at 5:36 PM, Machalot said:

Maybe there's also a binary setting that says "it's night, targets are only visible in IR and not the visible spectrum", ignoring the actual contrast.

I don't know about the Maverick, but for the Walleye this is definitely the case. The range at which you can lock things is a very strong function of time of day - as in, can't lock anything at ~6-7am, works perfectly well one hour later in identical lighting conditions.

[SpeedStick]

Yeah dont really understand locking mechanic either.

Btw if I may steal this thread for something semi-related.

Ep-13 in VR (CV1, yes i know old).

Anyone have tips on finding targets? I lean in, play with contrast and brightness, but with DLSS in VR with CV1 picking out targets at best like 2km.