B1-B Lancer and B2 Spirit JDAMs

[Basileus Ioannis]

Speaking of JDAMs, a while back I was tinkering with stand-off weapons because the thought of overflying the target after dropping the munitions made no sense to me (except give the enemy a chance to shoot you down). Right now, they work like very accurate LGBs, which they aren't; the delivery aircraft neither designates nor overflies the target. I can propose three methods to handle stand-off weapons: 1. make the munition a very accurate "dumb" bomb, provide no unit icon for the delivery aircraft, and make it an incredibly small and hard to hit level bomber (but it still overflies the target); 2. make the munition an artillery weapon, and make the delivery aircraft off-board artillery (and risk it being counter-batteried); or 3. make the munition a direct fire weapon, and put them in the FO unit (and risk losing the munitions when the FO unit dies, which reflects loss of designate capability). I would like to hear what you all think about this, thanks

John