Target Locator for Hellfire Rocket Pods

[TLI-Inferno]

I suggest adding a new weapon, a Target Locator, for bombers. This would be a gun with no damage, and no projectile, but with the same range, projectile speed, and fire rate of hellfire rocket pods, acting as a "target locator" for them, sacrificing one out of what is usually 4 gun mounts in order to give the bomber the ability to aim his hellfire rockets, providing a "+" aiming indicator that matches the projectile speed of the hellfire rocket pods, granted that the pilot is facing the target.

This would be a mountable gun, just like any other weapon, essentially sacrificing firepower for accuracy by losing a gun mount.

[gafwmn]

Won't happen....they are meant to be "dumb-fire" weapons.

Think of the 2 inch rocket pods on the old Huey helos back in Nam....

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[Yber]

I've already seen 4 hellfires bombers, and they're scary enough without that feature:crazy:.

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inb4 Sirius gets renamed to XTF.

[Govedo13]

Hellfire is modded as weapon not as missile hence all kind of missile like guidance is not possible.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)

[TLI-Inferno]

Hellfire is modded as weapon not as missile hence all kind of missile like guidance is not possible.

If you bothered to read, I never said anything about missile guidance. All this weapon would do is provide the + for a person to aim their missiles at, turning them into aimable bullets, with the same aiming + that normal guns have.

[Zukeenee]

You don't need any extra equipment for this, though. If I'm reading your post correctly, you can already do this on any ship with Hellfires. Or with any other guns, for that matter.

The "+" that shows you where to aim adjusts for the average weapons speed of all of your active guns. If you want to the be aiming just for the Hellfire rockets, turn off all your guns except for your Hellfires. Then the "+" will be calibrated properly for the 800m/s Hellfires.

Even with the aiming reticule, though, Hellfires are made to "spread" a bit. They don't always fire exactly where you're aiming, so 100% accuracy with Hellfires isn't exactly possible. This is by design, though; they're meant to be used against targets with a larger surface area, anyway.

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[Blackvertigo1]

Hellfire is modded as weapon not as missile hence all kind of missile like guidance is not possible.

Missiles are weapons. >.>



And I don't exactly know what OP is trying to say.

Would this system be used to find cloaked ships?

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