Kreutzberg Posted yesterday at 01:26 AM Posted yesterday at 01:26 AM The last mission (#11) of the Red Flag 81-2 campaign uses the GBU-8 HOBOS. The mission is quite complex. When making the attack run, I have been unable to get the GBU-8 to release from the aircraft. It locks onto targets as expected, but does not release. Several other players have had the same issue as described here: I've attempted to reproduce the issue in a smaller scale environment. However, air starts, hot starts and cold starts in other situations do not reproduce it. Even starting Mission 11 of the campaign and immediately launching the bombs after takeoff (with the full startup procedure in the campaign) works normally. When I did those tests, I figured the issue might have been corrected in a recent patch. However, I recently re-attempted the mission in full and got the same issue. Therefore, it may be something with a longer mission or something later in the mission or targets that is causing the bug. Of note, I was eventually able to get the bombs to drop by targeting different object, and after being hit by ground fire. It's possible that something in the object recognition isn't quite working or something of that nature. Normally, the bomb will release with a contrast lock on just about anything (even another aircraft), even if it can't actually hit it. I have a track file, but it is too large to post in the forum (because of the same complexity that likely causes the issue). If there's another way to get that track file to you, please let me know! Thanks!
Zabuzard Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago When you replay the track locally in the DCS replay menu, does it replicate the bug? If not, the track isnt helping us anyways - unfortunately.
Kreutzberg Posted 10 hours ago Author Posted 10 hours ago The track does show the weapons not releasing (and you can see me mashing the bomb release button). Interestingly, the bombs never release in the track, even though I eventually got them to do so in the actual mission as described. I don't know if that would make it more or less useful, but I'd be happy to provide it if helpful. Alternatively, you could probably reproduce it in-house by flying that mission. Quite a few seem to report the same thing.
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