Surface-launched YJ-83 goes for friendly units

[RedPanda]

AI 052B / 054A launches YJ-83 at friendly ships in the same group. The spacing between 2 ships is about 10-12km so there is no way that the missile hit a friendly by accident.

And they often get destroyed by each other's YJ-83.

YJ-83 friendly fire.miz YJ-83 friendly fire.trk

[Northstar98]

Reproduced.

Speculative, but it looks like the missiles' seeker heads are enabling from the moment they're launched (and 10-12 km would be within the range of the seeker), before reaching a turn point. In this case, this could be an AI issue, which should set missiles to enable in the vicinity of their intended target.

Using "Attack Group" under perform task, doesn't seem to have any effect either.

EDIT: Swapping the Type 054As with Ticonderogas, the RGM-84D doesn't exhibit this behaviour.

 

Secondly, IRL close-in weapon systems would engage anything meeting valid engagement criteria (including friendlies - they don't feature IFF systems) and so should be engaging incoming missiles, even if they're friendly.

Edited February 14 by Northstar98