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A/C on Air Intercept Mission: Only Flight Leader Follow... - 12/12/2021 11:24:41 AM

boogabooga

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This "bug" was present back in CMANO, but it is still an issue in CMO .37. Notice that the flight leader follows plotted course while the rest of the flight prosecutes the contact.

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RE: A/C on Air Intercept Mission: Only Flight Leader Fo... - 12/12/2021 4:14:04 PM

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Confirmed. Wondering how many other cases will break if we "fix" that one....

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RE: A/C on Air Intercept Mission: Only Flight Leader Fo... - 12/12/2021 4:40:21 PM

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So, IIRC the "wingman attacks his assigned target even though lead has a plotted course" behavior was put in place deliberately, to allow airgroup members in a strike to attack their individual targets. So the group (under a plotted course for the strike) reaches IP, then the lead attacks his own target while each of the wingmen fans out for his own.

If wingmen are forced to stick closely with the lead "because plotted course, dammit!" then this proper strike behavior probably goes right out of the window.

Tricky.

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RE: A/C on Air Intercept Mission: Only Flight Leader Fo... - 12/14/2021 6:32:54 AM

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Hi Dimitris,

To me, the intuitive thing would be to fan out and strike individual targets as you describe when Ignore Plotted Course = Yes, but follow the leader no matter what when Ignore Plotted Course = No. IMHO, there is almost never a good reason to separate the flight leader from his flight like that; one can detach it from the group if needed.

The main problem with just unassigning the group from the mission is that you lose the inherited EMCON, Doctrine, and WRA (etc.) from the mission as you revert to the inherited side doctrine instead. It might solve the problem if there was just a way to keep the current mission doctrine somehow during the unassign. That is the kind of discussion that I intended for the philosophy thread.

A second problem with the group unassign is that another flight launches to fill the gap as soon as you do it. Not sure what to do about that.

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RE: A/C on Air Intercept Mission: Only Flight Leader Fo... - 12/14/2021 10:37:32 AM

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There was a relatively long debate about this behavior maybe a several years ago and it was changed specifically on request to the current behavior with an argument just compelling as the OP.

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RE: A/C on Air Intercept Mission: Only Flight Leader Fo... - 12/21/2021 8:09:48 AM

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haha devs would rather argue than fix

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