UAV Issues

[Rampager83]

THANK YOU!!

Is that new to WinSPMBT or have I been missing this all along???

Buddy
(Blaming chemo moments, not "senior moments" <grin>)

[Mobhack]

Rampager83 said:
THANK YOU!!

Is that new to WinSPMBT or have I been missing this all along???

Buddy
(Blaming chemo moments, not "senior moments" <grin>)

The info button has always been ther eonthe bombardment screen

Cheers
Andy

[Rampager83]

DOH! Mea Culpa.

BK

[KevinRanger95]

If one hex is a yard or a meter, what would the standoff be for any given type of manpads, if a aircraft is in the next hex can a strela engage, or even a stinger, wether its a manpad a linebacker or a avenger? And what about sams in general is there a rule of thumb for standoff?

[Listy]

KevinRanger95 said:
If one hex is a yard or a meter,

Each Hex is 50 Meter's across.

[PlasmaKrab]

Each Hex is 50 Meter's across.

Standoff range for missiles ( be them SAMs, ATGMs or AGMs, even rockets) are given by the 'sabot range' value. For MANPADS that gives generally less than 10 hex, more for heavier ones, but since they fire off-map against strike aircrafts (standoff attacks), sabot range should only be under 200.

To have standoff values you have to scurry any technical docs you can find, but AFAIK these in the game are pretty well done. What would be appreciable though is relative and credible values for SAM accuracy and radar potency. These data are hard to find.

[DRG]

KevinRanger95 said:
If one hex is a yard or a meter, what would the standoff be for any given type of manpads, if a aircraft is in the next hex can a strela engage, or even a stinger, wether its a manpad a linebacker or a avenger? And what about sams in general is there a rule of thumb for standoff?

Every SAM is different. Many have minimum ranges. If you look at weapon 133 in the USA OOB with MOBHack you'll see a line..

"SABOT RANGE--Also Minimum range for some weapons" eg ATGM"

This also applies to SAMs and in the case of the Stinger SAM it's 2. The Patriot is 30. A Redeye SAM is 12

Those ranges are in HEXES so the Redeye has a 12 hex = 600 metre/yard minimum range for it to be deployed. Anything under that minimum wouldn't be fired on.

Don

[Shadowcougar]

I have to agree that the UAV are way to easy to kill. They are small, hard to see and shot at. I have only had 1 UAV be able to make more than 1 flight. it made 5 before it was downed by a INF squad with AK-47 fire.

I think they should be like bombers but able to come back several times.

never had a bomber shot at.

[kevin]

I agree with Shadowcougar. At the very least, UAV's should be immune to small arms fire. And missiles should only get a reduced chance of hitting (Like .1%, 1 in 1,000).