Real A-10 targeting pod footage

[shackman]

You can tell just from hearing the voices over the radio that the situation was getting intense. Great audio, but low quality video through hud. But good none the less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szX45PdUOmo

Edited October 1, 2010 by shackman

[GGTharos]

The Alpha can definitely carry a pod.

[shackman]

The Alpha can definitely carry a pod.

Sorry didn't know that.

[diveplane]

red smoke through the monochrome display sensor lmao.

[GGTharos]

He has Mk1 Eyeball.

[159th_Viper]

Yeah - at that range he's waaaay too close to effectively utilize the TGP I would have thought.

[GGTharos]

That is why automation rocks :D Set it there to start with, leave it there.

[shackman]

Here is an interesting one with A models performing a practice CSAR

 

[Avilator]

Here is an interesting one with A models performing a practice CSAR

 

 

I like how the pilots look at the Mavs over their shoulders just to watch them come off the rails.:D

[Skwurl]

Wicked video. Imagine if DCS A-10 had audio like that?

[SmokeyTheLung]

Does the lighting pod have 360 degree FOV? I'm guessing not, but will it atleast be able to track behind the aircraft? (I'm talking ingame)

[shackman]

I like how the pilots look at the Mavs over their shoulders just to watch them come off the rails.:D

I believe,but I could be wrong, that they watch the Mavericks come off the rails to make sure the weapon clears it, and they don't have a hung weapon on a hardpoint.

 

Which video Skwurl?

[mvsgas]

Does the lighting pod have 360 degree FOV? I'm guessing not, but will it atleast be able to track behind the aircraft? (I'm talking ingame)

 

Not sure in game but in real life, as long that there is nothing on the way, it got a very big field of view. If the target is not moving and once ground stabilize, it would stay lock to that point. If you notice on the first video, at one point the left main landing gear and the left wing get on the way but the pod did not loose track.

[GGTharos]

Same thing in the game. The gimbal limits are very large and view is obscured only by the aircraft fuselage and the pod itself.

[zakobi]

How do they look behind? I've always thought there must be a second camera at the end, otherwise i make sense in how it could look backwards when the pods main body was in the way... (Thinking of LGB here)

[GGTharos]

Well, like I said the gimbals are very large :) The sensor itself is mounted on a ball turret at the front of the pod, and as you can probably imagine, it can look at some angle past pure vertical to the rear. I don't recall the numbers.

 

You can help maintain visual by banking/turning or other flight path modification as well.

[Avilator]

How do they look behind? I've always thought there must be a second camera at the end, otherwise i make sense in how it could look backwards when the pods main body was in the way... (Thinking of LGB here)

 

In the case of the LGB, they maneuver the aircraft such that the target stays within the FOV until impact. This means they are usually banking away, and the pod would not have to look directly aft. If such a geometry were required for any reason, they would probably buddy lase the target.

[mvsgas]

Keep in mind this is obviously not the same pod but it uses the same concept or the seeker moves similarly

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Also similar to the ABL turret

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[GGTharos]

Notice how there is a 'cut' so the sensor can look backwards to some limit:

 

[power5]

Is that PAVE sensor on F111 called R2D2?

[mvsgas]

This has been posted several 100 times :D Just fast forward to 4:15

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[mvsgas]

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[slimakwielki]

Wicked video. Imagine if DCS A-10 had audio like that?

Actually if You looked carefully GlowingAmram's 'Project 10' Promo trailer You would hear at 2:44 '...got a smoke. I'm looking at dangerous close now...' which sounds nearly same ;)

[shackman]

Actually if You looked carefully GlowingAmram's 'Project 10' Promo trailer You would hear at 2:44 '...got a smoke. I'm looking at dangerous close now...' which sounds nearly same ;)

I actually did hear that when I turned up the volume to try and make out what was being said on the radios. And I also heard I got a smoke, and Danger close.

[aphelion79]

But did he put that in himself as a part of the video, or is that real game chatter? :cry: (hopes its in-game sound! :thumbup:)