AI Multiple JDAM Strike

[H60MTI]

This is mostly a goof off thing for my kids. I have a B-1B armed with all GBU-38's. I have about 52 targets on the ground. I'm trying to get it to smack all of them and can't figure out how. It just seems to drop ALL the JDAMs in one spot! One big hole Lol Also, is there a way to make the vehicles not move when the bombing starts? I have them set to HOLD and disperse under fire is OFF. 

B2 Carpet Bomb.miz

Edited April 21, 2024 by H60MTI

[H60MTI]

And a way to make them ACTUALLY HIT THE TARGET! Holy crap is this guy off....

[TEMPEST.114]

54 minutes ago, H60MTI said:

This is mostly a goof off thing for my kids. I have a B-1B armed with all GBU-38's. I have about 52 targets on the ground. I'm trying to get it to smack all of them and can't figure out how. It just seems to drop ALL the JDAMs in one spot! One big hole Lol Also, is there a way to make the vehicles not move when the bombing starts? I have them set to HOLD and disperse under fire is OFF. 

B2 Carpet Bomb.miz 14.17 kB · 0 downloads

 

 

 

55 minutes ago, H60MTI said:

This is mostly a goof off thing for my kids. I have a B-1B armed with all GBU-38's. I have about 52 targets on the ground. I'm trying to get it to smack all of them and can't figure out how. It just seems to drop ALL the JDAMs in one spot! One big hole Lol Also, is there a way to make the vehicles not move when the bombing starts? I have them set to HOLD and disperse under fire is OFF. 

B2 Carpet Bomb.miz 14.17 kB · 0 downloads

 

 

[H60MTI]

I saw the carpet bombing and was able to do that with dumb bombs. Doesn't work the same with JDAMs. I kinda figured it out. I have to set a bomb point on each target. That's 84 points since I changed it to a B-1B from the original B-2 I started with...Lots of clicking.

[TEMPEST.114]

55 minutes ago, H60MTI said:

I saw the carpet bombing and was able to do that with dumb bombs. Doesn't work the same with JDAMs. I kinda figured it out. I have to set a bomb point on each target. That's 84 points since I changed it to a B-1B from the original B-2 I started with...Lots of clicking.

You were able to get B2's to do carpet bombing? Did you use the B2's from the Military Aircraft Mod?

If you use the B1B from core DCS are you able to get that to carpet bomb, because I'm not able to do that - either the B1B or the B2.

[H60MTI]

Yeah, pretty sure it's from the Military Aircraft Mod. Carpet bombed the crap out of a runway, it was awesome. Carpet bombing is actually a choice for tasks to perform.

[Exorcet]

5 hours ago, H60MTI said:

This is mostly a goof off thing for my kids. I have a B-1B armed with all GBU-38's. I have about 52 targets on the ground. I'm trying to get it to smack all of them and can't figure out how. It just seems to drop ALL the JDAMs in one spot! One big hole Lol Also, is there a way to make the vehicles not move when the bombing starts? I have them set to HOLD and disperse under fire is OFF.

If you're bombing vehicles, CAS is the task to use. Then you can tell the AI to find and attach vehicles on its own with Search Then Engage (in Zone). It won't use JDAM's for this though since they can't track moving targets.

Disperse under fire off should stop the vehicles from moving.

[TEMPEST.114]

6 hours ago, H60MTI said:

Yeah, pretty sure it's from the Military Aircraft Mod. Carpet bombed the crap out of a runway, it was awesome. Carpet bombing is actually a choice for tasks to perform.

Would you be willing to share the .miz file? I cannot get modern bombers to carpet bomb no matter what I try, so I’d like to see where I’m going wrong. Thanks. 

[H60MTI]

Yeah. I'll post it tonight with what I have it at now. It's on the Nevada map so you do need that. Right now I have it with all B-1B's. One is dropping 84 JDAMS and 3 other B-1's are carpet bombing the buildings. It will slow down when they all hit just due to graphics. It slows down on my RTX3090! It's cool though. It got a good laugh out of it. I'll post it tonight when I get home from work. 

[TEMPEST.114]

35 minutes ago, H60MTI said:

Yeah. I'll post it tonight with what I have it at now. It's on the Nevada map so you do need that

Thank you. I have all the maps, that's not a problem. Nice to see someone using Nevada. It's a fun little map. 

[norman99]

1 hour ago, H60MTI said:

Yeah. I'll post it tonight with what I have it at now. It's on the Nevada map so you do need that. Right now I have it with all B-1B's. One is dropping 84 JDAMS and 3 other B-1's are carpet bombing the buildings. It will slow down when they all hit just due to graphics. It slows down on my RTX3090! It's cool though. It got a good laugh out of it. I'll post it tonight when I get home from work. 

I following this thread now, just to get the chance to watch this myself haha!

[H60MTI]

As promised...Like I said, 4 Bones just bombing the fuzz out of the airfield. Might have to press F2 a bunch of times to get to the B-1's, but it's still cool. Very short little "mission" but you'll get a chuckle out of it.

B-1B Carpet Bomb.miz

[TEMPEST.114]

8 hours ago, H60MTI said:

As promised...Like I said, 4 Bones just bombing the fuzz out of the airfield. Might have to press F2 a bunch of times to get to the B-1's, but it's still cool. Very short little "mission" but you'll get a chuckle out of it.

B-1B Carpet Bomb.miz 20.81 kB · 3 downloads

Thank you again.

May I ask a few questions; I'm an A2A girl, so bombing and setting up bombers isn't something I do a lot but I've noticed that if I change the altitude then this all breaks. 

Also, is it key where you put the final waypoint PRIOR to bombing? Like, do you have to know where to start dropping the bombs for them to hit, or does the AI Pilots automatically do this and therefore the distance of this waypoint to the target area is irrelevant?

Finally, is there any way for these to carpet bomb from above an altitude that would mean most SAMS can't touch them? I tried doing this exact same mission with the B2 up really high and nothing happened, it just turned away from the target area before it reached it but never dropped anything. Is this related to my second question?

 

Thanks again @H60MTI

[H60MTI]

There are 2 altitudes to mess with. The actual altitude of the aircraft and the altitude to bomb at. The bombing altitude can be changed under the advanced way point options. I don't know they upper limits for bombing runs on AI planes. I've heard 25-26,000 is the limit but haven't tested it. 

It's kinda key for the inbound way point. You need to make it miles away so there's room for the AI to open the doors and drop within normal JDAM parameters.

[TEMPEST.114]

10 minutes ago, H60MTI said:

There are 2 altitudes to mess with. The actual altitude of the aircraft and the altitude to bomb at. The bombing altitude can be changed under the advanced way point options. I don't know they upper limits for bombing runs on AI planes. I've heard 25-26,000 is the limit but haven't tested it. 

It's kinda key for the inbound way point. You need to make it miles away so there's room for the AI to open the doors and drop within normal JDAM parameters.

Right, so the mission I was trying to make is impossible. I wanted B2's dropping from 50k but there's an artificial limit for 25k apx?! 

This is where I was going wrong. 

Thanks so much! Very cool little mission. Nice to see a red base go boom!

[bfr]

37 minutes ago, H60MTI said:

There are 2 altitudes to mess with. The actual altitude of the aircraft and the altitude to bomb at. The bombing altitude can be changed under the advanced way point options. I don't know they upper limits for bombing runs on AI planes. I've heard 25-26,000 is the limit but haven't tested it. 

It's kinda key for the inbound way point. You need to make it miles away so there's room for the AI to open the doors and drop within normal JDAM parameters.

I knocked up a similar 'shock & awe' type scenario for my amusement ages ago (I think I used B-52s instead of B-1Bs) and IIRC then even for dumb bombs you need to space the points a bit for them to get everything in order for the bombing run.  It is amusing to watch your screen momentarily reduced to a slideshow though when things start to go bang.