Tank can be used protective smoke grenades?

[Keshman]

Hello)

I have a question for you about: smoke grenades, smoke shell....Tank can be used protective smoke grenades in A10C and DCS World ?)

If yes! How does it work? How to use it?

Please see picture! ( my english is bad for the special questions :()

[Jona33]

It pops out an enormous amount of smoke which can be used to blind another vehicle or shield the tank from view.

[159th_Viper]

Yes, A.I. will automatically pop smoke when engaged. Shoot at them and see.

[Spy Guy]

I always interpreted the popped smoke as "Touché, good Sir"... but I do tend to drop LGBs on them...

Is there any footage of a tank actually popping smoke out there? (the only one I saw on YT was pretty low quality :()

[Keshman]

I used to attack tanks (RU and US) from planes, helicopters, tanks, infantry RPG and bombs, mines! But never tank use smoke shell, smoke protective :(

Guys if anyone saw it real! Can you attach here the mission! Where a tank fires a smoke! Thank you.

(and again sorry for bad english)

[joey45]

here's a chally doing a smoke screen..

[B25Mitch]

Tanks do pop smoke in DCS World. Unfortunately, it looks nothing like the video above - it's just a very enlarged version of the particle effect used for rotor wash on the ground. It looks so bad it took me weeks to figure out that's what it was meant to represent - I initially thought it was just dust being kicked up from my GAU-8 rounds.

[Keshman]

B25Mitch

You can attach a screenshot here where the tank throws a protective smoke?

Did you change something in the files?

Thx.

[B25Mitch]

 

That's it unfortunately. Personally I'd rather they just left it out, since it looks so unrealistic (blatantly recycling the rotor-wash dust effect), and since the tanks don't seem to use it strategically - they just pop smoke whenever they take a hit of any kind. AI units are not affected by it and it hardly conceals the tank from human eyes either. I rather hope they've put some effort into fixing this for Combined Arms.

 

*Edit* this is the default effect - I didn't change any files.

[Nate--IRL--]

 

That's it unfortunately. Personally I'd rather they just left it out, since it looks so unrealistic (blatantly recycling the rotor-wash dust effect), and since the tanks don't seem to use it strategically - they just pop smoke whenever they take a hit of any kind. AI units are not affected by it and it hardly conceals the tank from human eyes either. I rather hope they've put some effort into fixing this for Combined Arms.

 

Maybe not for CA initially - but I suspect it will be addressed at some point.

 

Nate

[G-Lock91]

Yes, A.I. will automatically pop smoke when engaged. Shoot at them and see.

 

We can't yet. We're all still "patiently" waiting :D

[Alicatt]

here's a chally doing a smoke screen..

That is engine generated smoke, not "popping smoke" from the smoke grenade launchers.

Here is an M1 popping smoke with views through the Thermal Imager

Edited June 16, 2012 by Alicatt