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wildcolonialboy -> RE: AIM-120 targetting (7/23/2019 11:33:06 PM)
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I was wondering whether this (my question below) is indeed the case? Data doesn't seem to come back to the original platform on datalinks anymore, and as soon as the weapon goes pitbull it loses the datalink (used to get confirmation through two-way datalink that AMRAAM-D had locked on, and the radar data/range, or even sometimes Tomahawk Block IV MMT would send back data on new contacts picked up with its infrared imaging sensor), per my quote below. I've also noticed this with LRASM, if you F1 select a new target, it does retarget but also permanently loses the datalink at that point.
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I'm not sure if this is a recent update (I'm sure this wasn't always the case previously), but it seems now that midcourse datalink is now always broken off when the missile goes pitbull. I remember previously seeing, for example, sensor data coming back over the two-way datalink for Tomahawk and AEGIS, so that you would see as one of the sensor 'pings', ie "Active Radar, AMRAAM #1, 3.2nm" listed above/below "AEGIS, USS Arleigh Burke, 3.2nm".
When doing CEC OTH shots, the point at which RIM-174 breaks datalink with the orbiting E-2D (in a simulation targeting a J-20 that has gone under the SPY-1 radar horizon) seems quite inconsistent, and often the RIM-174 doesn't descend to look for its target but remains at high altitude to search for its target (and then often fails to find it).
Regarding air targets "sucking in" multiple missiles, I do think there has been a change recently in the missile logic when volleys are targeting multiple targets. Sometimes it makes sense as a realism consideration that the missiles once gone pitbull would simply track the first target it sees, but when you have missiles that are supposed to be operating under two-way datalink, the fact that they "gang up" on the first missile/target incoming of a group of missiles can sometimes be good and sometimes be bad (depending on how agile your SAMs are at retargeting themselves onto the next misssile in the group)
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