Mission 09 Ground Unit Lasing not working

[Polonsky]

The ground unit suggest they will light up a warehouse on the ground and request air support. However they didn't clarify the laser code for this operation. And I've tested with the default 1688 with designation right on the red smoke in  the middle of the warehouse and dropped in AUTO mode with LST/NFLR on and end up in a complete miss. I have to arm my own laser designator (LST/NFLR+LTD/R) to hit the target. Not sure if the lasing from ground unit actually work in this mission.

Edited yesterday at 01:49 PM by Polonsky

[OmasRachE]

So you have selected LST in the FLIR Page on your MFD? If the ground unit is sparkeling you should find the target. From here on you can use your own laser or if the ground unit continues sparkeling, you can drop on his laser but only if the Lasercode of your GBU matches his. The commen case would be him marking the target with laser, you findig it with LST and then firing your own laser to guide your bomb.

Edited yesterday at 02:01 PM by OmasRachE

[Polonsky]

44 minutes ago, OmasRachE said:

So you have selected LST in the FLIR Page on your MFD? If the ground unit is sparkeling you should find the target. From here on you can use your own laser or if the ground unit continues sparkeling, you can drop on his laser but only if the Lasercode of your GBU matches his. The commen case would be him marking the target with laser, you findig it with LST and then firing your own laser to guide your bomb.

Neither the briefing nor the voiceover of the ground unit suggest the actual laser code so I've assumed 1688. I didn't enter the LST page in FLIR and I've designated with FLIR page without modifying any setting except for the FOV.

Edited yesterday at 02:45 PM by Polonsky

[OmasRachE]

Ok, since I don´t own this campaign, I can´t tell you the actual code either but I also would asume 1688 if nothing else is mentioned. But you can check this by using the LST button in the FLIR page. The image turns all green and there is a jumping crosshair in the display to indicate the search. You have to roughly point your nose, or the FLIR-pod to the area where the target is located (you mentioned a smoke indication). If the laser is sparkeling on 1688 the LST finds it. Now you can drop the GBU as you would without LST, using your own laser. This is especially necessary if the code of your GBUs and your FLIR is not 1688. 

There might be some missconception of what LST is. LST is not the same as buddylasing. LST is only a tool to point your FLIR to a location someone else is lasing on. Buddylasing is when you drop on someone elses laser. Therefore you can set two different laser codes in your FLIR. Your bomb allways has only one Laser Code and this can only be changed at the ground by the groundcrew (loadout menu). If both codes are the same and your buddy (Wingman, FAC, JTAC) continues lasing the whole time, you can combine both and find the location first by using LST and after that you drop your GBU without your own laser. But if the codes don´t match, your bomb goes dump. 

I hope that helps. To valid if 1688 is the right code of the JTAC as I said just use LST. If your FLIR finds something, 1688 is the correct code, but if not, there must be another one.