Learning to bomb with GBU12 with Unlimited Ammo turned on, no success.

[Snuten]

I have loaded up the F18 with 4 GBU 12(or 10s) and finds my target area and lock on with the laser and drop the bombs one by one(and turning on the laser switch between the drops) and successfully hits the targets. But when the plane re-arms in the air with the new bombs selected, they do not explode, just a tiny "puff" where they hit. I have tried to re-set the Mode and Fuze again and the Code is 1688 on both laser and bombs. (also tried to re-enter the code again in Stores, but have read that would not work anyway)

And in ME I have ticked both check boxes, left and right next to Unlimited Ammo. 

Only things that works is to jettison the bombs, land and re-arm through the coms menu. But that kind of removes the idea of unlimited ammo when practicing, even if it is still kinda unlimited

Is this a bug, or known not to work or am I missing something? I have tried to google it and also searched in here.

The maps I have tried this on is Afghan and Kola if that could be a the problem? Also running with the latest patch(hence Afghan map) 

Sorry for not using the correct terms like TDC and TGP and so on, Im still learning so a bit unsure about their names.

[Muchocracker]

sounds like the fuses don't get replicated from the bombs loaded on spawn and after they get rearmed. 

[Snuten]

Yes, I also suspect this now. Perhaps this started after the "feature" to change codes in the air was removed, whenever that was.

[Muchocracker]

On 7/14/2024 at 6:52 PM, Muchocracker said:

sounds like the fuses don't get replicated from the bombs loaded on spawn and after they get rearmed. 

Confirmed through my tests. My guess is the in air rearm is loading bombs of the old version before the fusing change and it doesn't get the new avionics info passed to say the fuse is armed. 

So i guess if you wanna use unlimited ammo you're SOL right now. 

[BuzzU]

Have you tried it with different bombs?

[Snuten]

I only tested with GBU10 and 12.