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Silverwolf
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FrostPaw
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- Joined: 2004-08-27 13:32
If they are going for realism I'm afraid the days of needing to paint the target for a hellfire tergetted from the apache are long gone.
The apache longbow is capable of laser designating its own targets storing their position and firing the hellfire at the target while its hiding behind a hill or something. The whole point of this system is to avoid leaving the helicopter a sitting duck hovering above the horizon while the missile travels to the target. It basicly takes a snapshot of the target positions and fires at the snapshot.
Even older apaches not of longbow designation are capable of popup attacks as are most other modern day attack helicopters. You simply pop up scan the battlefield lock on and fire then drop out of sight for several seconds. Then pop back up to reaquire the target just to remind the hellfire where it was supposed to be going......or you can wait until the trajectory is good enough then drop down and in most cases the hellfire will remember where its aiming.
There's also the method of firing helfires up into the sky in a ripple mode of 2-3 then popping up and designating targets in sequence just as the hellfires begin to fly above the target zone.
The reason infantry have laser designators is for fast moving aircraft that are not immediately in the vicinity but can be called in and don't have to waste time looking for the target they just fire and forget the trooper on the ground guides it in while the pilots can be left to look after their escape. After all helicopters can hide aircraft have nothing to hide behind in the sky and flying low they are predicatble and unmanouverable to incoming fire.
From time to time troops using designators may be used for apaches but that would be rare and probably at extreme range where the area is too hot for the apache to go in to begin with possibly painting a Sam or Zsu etc.
The apache longbow is capable of laser designating its own targets storing their position and firing the hellfire at the target while its hiding behind a hill or something. The whole point of this system is to avoid leaving the helicopter a sitting duck hovering above the horizon while the missile travels to the target. It basicly takes a snapshot of the target positions and fires at the snapshot.
Even older apaches not of longbow designation are capable of popup attacks as are most other modern day attack helicopters. You simply pop up scan the battlefield lock on and fire then drop out of sight for several seconds. Then pop back up to reaquire the target just to remind the hellfire where it was supposed to be going......or you can wait until the trajectory is good enough then drop down and in most cases the hellfire will remember where its aiming.
There's also the method of firing helfires up into the sky in a ripple mode of 2-3 then popping up and designating targets in sequence just as the hellfires begin to fly above the target zone.
The reason infantry have laser designators is for fast moving aircraft that are not immediately in the vicinity but can be called in and don't have to waste time looking for the target they just fire and forget the trooper on the ground guides it in while the pilots can be left to look after their escape. After all helicopters can hide aircraft have nothing to hide behind in the sky and flying low they are predicatble and unmanouverable to incoming fire.
From time to time troops using designators may be used for apaches but that would be rare and probably at extreme range where the area is too hot for the apache to go in to begin with possibly painting a Sam or Zsu etc.
