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am i correct that HOF in INV stat screen is ft AGL as the skeets have a radar altimeter (wonder what those thingies cost)

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Passively. Quite passively.

 

CBU97 is a smart munition and is what is used if you really MUST hit a vehicle as they actively seek targets to destroy.

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...the ugly word "passive" doesn't give the cbu 97 any credit for actively using a passive IR sensor in order to get the direction where it actively shoots the copper to...

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..but then the wind corrected version is relying on the plane's INS data (sounds rather passive) to actively steer itself to where we get back to discuss the active, passive or semi-active role of the skeets...

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...using its active radar altimeter also seems to be quite an active activity to me...

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It doesn't do anything 'actively' ... I suggest spending two minutes thinking about what it means to actively seek a target vs. passively ;)

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am i correct that HOF in INV stat screen is ft AGL as the skeets have a radar altimeter (wonder what those thingies cost)

 

HOF means at which altitude the CBU will deploy the submunitions (which in turn deploy skeets).

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Sorry for the mistake in calling it centripedal, that's what I get when I'm not careful with my mouse clicks with the auto spell checker suggestions.

 

Thanks for the correction.:doh:

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Hmm, sounds good, and it is centrifugal force by the way :)

 

There is no such thing as centrifugal force, there is just inertia. :)

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I don't know if it is modeled in the game, but I believe that the problems with SFWs has been the footprint profile. Some videos on YouTube show that if you send the CBU right in the center of a group of vehicles spread out in an area, the Pk will be very high. Maybe the varying results people have is due to that.

Look in this video at 3:28 for the footprint profile. It has the form of 4 elipses centered in a point. Each elipse is an individual skeet trajectory.

 

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That may or may not be true, depending on how the bomb works. IDK how the bomb actually spreads the pucks, but if it spins faster the pucks have more inertia, not centrifugal force. If they are actually pushed radially outward in addition to spinning, then centrifugal force exists.

WarriorX, centripetal force acts towards the center of the circle.

 

There is no such thing as centrifugal force, there is just inertia. :)

 

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O.K, I've been playing around in the missions and what I find is that for tanks, you must have a low HOF, and everything else's HOF is dictated by its' size. I had good reliable results doing this. Another thing is that the 97 seems to work best when the canister splits when it is right over the target, and that the target be centralized in the bomblet pattern. Just reporting my findings! Hope they help!

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Being pedantic, I know, but the BLU-108 munition is active, not passive. Each skeet uses a passive IR camera and an active laser to detect the distinctive profile of a target.

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You aren't being pedantic, you're being another person who doesn't understand the difference between active and passive target search ;)

 

Being pedantic, I know, but the BLU-108 munition is active, not passive. Each skeet uses a passive IR camera and an active laser to detect the distinctive profile of a target.

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Need some advice with cbu-97/105.

If 25 static tanks are aligned like in the picture, where should my TGP be aimed at?

No. 13 or No. 23?

 

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Point is: is explosion covered area from my aiming point forward, or is it spread to all sides?

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With the 105 - #13.

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O.K. Thanks!

How about CBU-87, CBU-97 and CBU-103?

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Same with 103 as you are dropping the smart-bomb on the co-ords smack in the middle of the KZ. As for 87 and 97 I would suppose that the same principle finds applicability, ie setting #13 as SPI. You are however then just dropping dumb-bombs with error-probabilities far exceeding the WCMD's.

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In the Sunset Sierra mission, when you first are trying to destroy the four artillery guns on the farmland, how many CBU-105s or 97s should it take? I tried one CBU-105 at 2200 burst altitude and got only one gun! I then tried another at 1500 burst altitued and it still killed only one gun! Is there a way to drop 105s or 97s so I can get all of them in one go? The artillery pieces are spread pretty far apart. They are spread about 530 meters apart.

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Use GAU-8...

 

Right tool for the job. ;)

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Point is: is explosion covered area from my aiming point forward, or is it spread to all sides?

 

IRL as far as i can tell, the area most likely resembles a tilted conic section (with minor deviations).

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