SAM/AAA Threat Circles on TAD?

[Nickhawk]

anyone know if in the real A-10C after detecting a SAM/AAA with the RWR threat rings and positions of the SAMS will show up on the TAD?

 

that would make it easier to find it with the TGP if you got the approximate position of it instead of searching the needle in the haystack.

 

dont know how it works in the reality but in Falcon AF your HSD/TAD showed all detected threats with its range circles, is the A-10C capable of that too?

[Eddie]

No. The RWR cannot provide accurate enough range information to allow positions to be plotted.

 

The F-16 (and most other aircraft for that matter) can only show this information if it is pre-programmed during the mission planning phase and loaded via the DTC, or if an exernal sensor such as the HTS on the Viper is fitted.

 

As to wether or not known air defence systems can be loaded onto the TAD map during mission planning on the A-10C I don't know, but the capability is not currently in the sim.

[jazjar]

look on page 311 of the manual. It shows 4 symbols besides the digital tasking symbol that are stuff like friendly aircraft symbol and wingman symbol, and then the ubiquitous green "X" for friendly ground forces, and finally, there are two others that we haven't seen yet, these are the red enemy ground and air unit symbols. I don't know if threat circles are shown, but these red symbols might be included later.

[sobek]

look on page 311 of the manual. It shows 4 symbols besides the digital tasking symbol that are stuff like friendly aircraft symbol and wingman symbol, and then the ubiquitous green "X" for friendly ground forces, and finally, there are two others that we haven't seen yet, these are the red enemy ground and air unit symbols. I don't know if threat circles are shown, but these red symbols might be included later.

 

These are datalinked units. Nothing coming from the RWR.

[Smokin Hole]

These are datalinked units. Nothing coming from the RWR.

 

The enemy datalinks their positions to my Hog!? How. Cool. Is. That?

[Timmay]

Irony? If not, no, these units are datalinked by another plane (A-10 etc.)

 

Just to clarify that!

[jazjar]

How do these symbols get to show up in the TAD? I've never seen them before, and I certainly think they would come in handy to people like me in the campaign missions, where It's handy to know the positions of enemy units before i go in and get shot down by them. Is this not modeled or am I missing something?

[power5]

You should be taking actual or mental notes in the mission planning window of where enemy is located. If not, you will get shot down a lot.

[Sarge55]

jazjar

 

One method is the JTAC or other ATAC will data link them to you.

[jazjar]

Really? Have you seen these datalink symbols before? I certainly haven't

[WarriorX]

Would be nice to be able to create a Markpoint in the Mission Editor/Pre-Brief that would load up into the Datacartridge and then show up in the TAD as a unique symbol. But we have been told that we are feature complete, so there is no real point.

 

If anyone remembers Open Falcon, this functionality was present for you to create these marks that would show up in your HSD. Worked well.

[sobek]

Would be nice to be able to create a Markpoint in the Mission Editor/Pre-Brief that would load up into the Datacartridge and then show up in the TAD as a unique symbol. But we have been told that we are feature complete, so there is no real point.

 

I don't think that is true, AFAIK the sim is not fully feature complete, it's just in feature freeze, so no new features are excepted in the to do list, so to say.

[WarriorX]

Roger that...I stand corrected.

[jazjar]

So I guess that the enemy unit symbols on pg. 311 of the manual are going to be included later?

[Smokin Hole]

I can't recall when specifically but I am pretty sure I've gotten red enemy positions via datalink. Once in a mission I created with an OH-58 serving as JTAC.

[jazjar]

Do mean the red diamond symbols, or the red triangle symbols, the latter of which denote target assignments by the JTAC, while the former represents an enemy unit position on the entire net. Which one are you referring to

Edited November 10, 2010 by jazjar

[jazjar]

So, you were saying?

[jazjar]

could anybody answer please?