VIRSS smoke

[Weasel]

Sorry to be a pain, but I want to understand this in game terms as I was passing along to the boots I was teaching that VIRSS is TI blocking smoke. Ok, so it is not a smoke round firing according to the game, that is just an animation so one knows that VIRSS has fired.

So what exactly is winSPMBT modeling VIRSS as then? What it the vehicle "firing" to try and block a missile?

[Marek_Tucan]

The "VIRSS" in game terms attempts to model all various kinds of soft-kill defensive devices, like real VIRSS or Shtora jammer etc.

CIWS represents hard-kill devices like Arena or Drozd.

[DRG]

Weasel said:

So what exactly is winSPMBT modeling VIRSS as then? What it the vehicle "firing" to try and block a missile?

If a vehicle has VIRSS and a ATGM is fired the game runs a routine to determine if the VIRSS was sucessful in diverting the missle or not for that , and only that, missle. The "smoke" is, as you noted, just an animation so you know that VIRSS has fired. So "VIRSS" in the game is a code routine the game runs when a vehicle equiped with VIRSS detects a ATGM launch.

Don