reported Modules given the pre-launch flare tracking update can't target illumination flares

[Northstar98]

Hi everyone,

Minor issue - modules given the ability to produce tone and acquire and track decoy flares prior to launch cannot do so for illumination flares. Everything else in the game (including IR SAMs) can.

I have a selection of tracks below, you can see that aircraft that

In the Chaparral track, you can even see that illumination flares are able to decoy and seduce the missile away (in this case, the missile was initially tracking the flare on the left, but gets decoyed by the flare on the right).

Also seen in these tracks:

• The F-15C seems to think illumination flares have IFF transponders and identifies them as friendly.
• The seekers of IR missiles launched by the F/A-18C aren't actually aligned with the reticle on the HUD.

It seems somewhat ironic (and I must admit, a little perplexing), that illumination flares being able to be acquired and tracked prior to launch being more of a global change, whereas decoy flares are not. I assume this is due to the fact that illumination flares are treated like a weapon and decoys are not. IF they were instead a short-lived entity, that would result in this change being global. If this was also applied to chaff, that would facilitate chaff for distraction and chaff corridors in DCS, not just to higher-fidelity, bespoke 3rd party radar implementations.

Chaparral_PreLaunchIllumFlareTracking.trk F-15C_PreLaunchIllumFlareTracking.trk F-16CM_NoPreLaunchIllumFlareTracking.trk F-18C_NoPreLaunchIllumFlareTracking1.trk F-18C_NoPreLaunchIllumFlareTracking2.trk Strela-10_PreLaunchIllumFlareTracking.trk Su-25_PreLaunchIllumFlareTracking.trk

[f-18hornet]

Thank you, reported for analysis.