Excroat3 -> RE: Air to air combat with guns (2/15/2018 5:29:36 PM)
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You may have been having problems with the air intercept mission because the only doctrine option that allows guns only says they can use the guns in self-defense. For most/all planes past the 1950s and 1960s, when aircraft started relying more on A2A missiles, guns were considered a last resort. That is reflected in the game by the database/engine not considering the gun ammo as part of the airplane's loadout. This means that once the aircraft runs out of missiles, it would normally RTB, as in real life. Nobody wants to be flying around with just guns against enemies with air to air missiles. If the situation gets desperate, you can use guns, and I think that is what that doctrine represents. All that means that if you want to be 100% sure that the aircraft will engage the target with guns, you need to unassign it from its mission, and tell it to attack that target specifically (F1 option).
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