[DCS Issue] GBU-24B/B instead of GBU-24A/B

[Northstar98]

Hi everyone,

Very minor one (though one that should be trivial to fix) - the F-4E shouldn't have the GBU-24B/B Paveway III available and instead should have the GBU-24A/B. The former is a weapon that's only used by the US Navy, the latter is the appropriate air force version.

In game, there isn't any difference aside from the ablative grey textures on the B/B (IRL the B/B uses the BLU-109A/B as a warhead, which aside from the thermal protective coating, is filled with the more insensitive PBXN-109 as opposed to trinotal as in the BLU-109/B as used in the A/B).

The GBU-24A/B already exists in DCS and is available for the F-16CM Block 50.

Edited May 24, 2024 by HB_Painter
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[HB_Painter]

Hey thanks for the report we will take a look at it and work together with ED to fix that!

Edited May 24, 2024 by HB_Painter

[DSplayer]

To add onto this, this issue seems to be due to the patch with the new bomb fuses. Prior to that patch, the GBU-24 with the CLSID "{GBU-24}" was basically equivalent to the GBU-24 with the CLSID "{34759BBC-AF1E-4AEE-A581-498FF7A6EBCE}". Now "{GBU-24}" (used on the F-18 and F-4E) is the GBU-24B/B and "{34759BBC-AF1E-4AEE-A581-498FF7A6EBCE}" (used by the F-16) is the GBU-24A/B.

Changing the GBU-24 that the F-4E uses ("{34759BBC-AF1E-4AEE-A581-498FF7A6EBCE}" instead of "{GBU-24}"), seems like it would be the solution in this case.

[Northstar98]

2 minutes ago, DSplayer said:

To add onto this, this issue seems to be due to the patch with the new bomb fuses. Prior to that patch, the GBU-24 with the CLSID "{GBU-24}" was basically equivalent to the GBU-24 with the CLSID "{34759BBC-AF1E-4AEE-A581-498FF7A6EBCE}". Now "{GBU-24}" (used on the F-18 and F-4E) is the GBU-24B/B and "{34759BBC-AF1E-4AEE-A581-498FF7A6EBCE}" (used by the F-16) is the GBU-24A/B.

Changing the GBU-24 that the F-4E uses ("{34759BBC-AF1E-4AEE-A581-498FF7A6EBCE}" instead of "{GBU-24}"), seems like it would be the solution in this case.

Yeah, I did something to that effect (though note as of the most recent update, the correct lines are 445 and 625) and I did get the GBU-24A/B to show up as a payload instead of the B/B.

Unfortunately due to another issue (also reported here), I can't get the AI to drop it (and atm I'm limited to testing with the AI), unless it's jettisoned (and indeed a GBU-24A/B shows up).