reported 5V55 and 48N6 missiles appear to leave 2 smoke trails

[Northstar98]

Hi everyone,

A smaller one, the 5V55 and 48N6 missiles seem to leave 2 smoke trails. This is most visible just after launch, when performing pitch-over.

One smoke trail appears to emit from the rear of the plume as expected, but another appears to emit from the missile itself, leaving 2 distinct smoke trails. The 2nd trail emitted from the missile seems to cut off before motor burn-out (when the plume and its smoke trail disappears).

Spoiler

Not really related to this bug report but note that DCS designations for the ship-fired missiles are wrong.

• Moskva has the S-300F Fort [SA-N-6 Grumble] system, which fires the 5V55RM missile. In DCS this is designated as S-300PS SA-10B Grumble. The 5V55RM is functionally identical to the 5V55R as fired by the S-300PS, just marinised.
• In DCS, Pyotr Velikey not only has the S-300F, but also has the longer-ranged S-300FM Fort-M [SA-N-20 Gargoyle], which fires the 48N6/48N6M [SA-N-20A/B respectively]. In DCS this is mistakenly referred to as the S-300F [SA-N-6 Grumble].

Personally, I'd rename the 5V55 missile to 5V55R and give it the S-300PS [SA-10B Grumble] name, copy and paste the model, textures and scheme and rename it 5V55RM (S-300F Fort [SA-N-6 Grumble]) and for the 48N6, rename it to 48N6K and use S-300FM Fort-M [SA-N-20A Gargoyle].

S-300PS_smoke.trk S-300FM_smoke.trk

Edited May 12 by Northstar98

[Flappie]

Hi! I agree there should be only one smoke.

Issue reported.

I'll check the names then ask for an improvement as well.

 

[Northstar98]

17 hours ago, Flappie said:

I'll check the names then ask for an improvement as well.

Just a heads-up there are a few others when it comes to naval missiles - they're functionally identical to their ground-based missiles (just being hardened against salt-water ingress, which we don't have to worry about). Of course, very minor, just makes it more accurate:

• 9M330 Tor (SA-15 Gauntlet) -> 9M330 Kinzhal [SA-N-9 Gauntlet]
• 9M311 Tunguska (SA-19 Grison) -> 9M311K Kortik [SA-N-11 Grison]
• 9M33 Osa (SA-8 Gecko) -> 9M33 Osa-M [SA-N-4A Gecko]

You could essentially just copy and paste the current entries and change the name as appropriate for the naval designation.

Edited May 13 by Northstar98
Tunguska -> Kortik