How am I supposed to use laser-guided missiles on the Suhkoi-25 without any TV/Skhval?

[Alkaline]

Hello,

I really like the Sukhoi-25, and I really want to do like a russo-ukrainian war scenario, but with georgia and russia, or a Russia-Sweden conflict, where I am russia in a Su-25, doing offensive missions in Sweden on Kola map. And what I have gathered for infrmation, the Sukhoi-25T is kinda very rare, and its like, only Su-25 that is doing missions in ukraine for example.

But how am I supposed to lase a target with oonly the HUD? I mean, to actually hit the target is EXTREMELY difficult. The Sukhoi-25T version, with the low quality Skhval, it atleast like "autoaim" when the Skhval senses that u are on a target.

Am I missing something?

[razo+r]

You only have the HUD. Of course the closer you get the bigger the target becomes, that's about it. Nobody said it's going to be easy. Old tech has it's ups and downs...

[AeriaGloria]

The Su-25 wasn’t meant to snipe vehicles with laser guided weapons, that was Mi-24 job. It was designed to use laser weapons on larger targets like structures and convoys or get close and take a chance and compensating with large warheads like Kh-29.

[Supernova-III]

14 hours ago, Alkaline said:

I mean, to actually hit the target is EXTREMELY difficult

it's not difficult if you do this right. Take a rocket with 10km range, climb high (like 5-6 km). Find your target then perform dive like you would do with unguided weapons. Aim with rocket and launch it once authorized. As it hits the target, recover immediately with 4-6g to 35 deg of pitch. Eventually, you recover from dive earlier and get very good precision, in contrast to firing unguided rockets.

[Alkaline]

12 hours ago, AeriaGloria said:

The Su-25 wasn’t meant to snipe vehicles with laser guided weapons, that was Mi-24 job. It was designed to use laser weapons on larger targets like structures and convoys or get close and take a chance and compensating with large warheads like Kh-29.

Aaaaah! This make so much sense. Although, then they shouldnt have a mission in the campaign, very early on, to engage 2x leopards with laser-guided missiles.... MANPAD's scattered around the target area.. Impoossible, lmfao.

[AeriaGloria]

8 hours ago, Alkaline said:

Aaaaah! This make so much sense. Although, then they shouldnt have a mission in the campaign, very early on, to engage 2x leopards with laser-guided missiles.... MANPAD's scattered around the target area.. Impoossible, lmfao.

True. How after are you flaring? You have a lot of flares. 
 

I would think you would need to be about 1.5-3 km to make that shot accurately. CCRP with bombs I find works on tanks often enough and would keep your farther away, where flares work better.