Aircraft weapons

[Marek_Tucan]

Those would be covered rather by FC methinks, but anyway as I've said, it's just a stry idea I even didn't have time to try out. Maybe after Wednesday

[thatguy96]

Oh, without a doubt, I'm just saying that if you change one thing you might end up being compelled to change another.

[kevineduguay1]

I had a Maverick kill two tanks in different hexes, so this is a problem. But why can't the A-10's 30mm gun kill a tank? After all was'nt the gun was designed to do this? At least once on occation?

[DRG]

Two kills for one missile can happen. If the HEkill is reduced that reduces incidents like that but also makes the weapon less effective against non armoured targets. We made changes to the code in the last release that reduced the number of incidences like that and I assume this isn't something you see all the time but you don't say one way or the other. If it is, nobody else is reporting it.

The A-10's 30mm gun CAN kill a tank in the game. I have seen it happen so saying it cannot "At least once on occasion" is ridiculous and I can provide save games that prove that statement is ridiculous. However, we are reviewing how multibarreled weapons are handled in the game and found a flaw in the code that goes back to SP2 that was reducing the effects of multibarreled guns. That doesn't affect the way the A10's are set up in the OOB's you have now but will when the patch is released and the new OOB's are used. However, don't expect fantasy results where A-10's leave masses of twisted wreckage after one pass. The actual armoured piecing ability of the GAU-8 Avenger is 69mm at 500 meters but the game fires from a shorter range and is rated as a 9 right now and that's won't kill a lot of tanks.

Don

[kevineduguay1]

DRG,

The two kills with on shot has only happened twice in three test runs of a 1992 scenario {US vs Iraq} with the Iraqis having over 200 tanks. So this as you said is not common.

The A-10 30mm has yet to make a kill on a tank. It will kill most everything else but no tanks yet.

I am asumeing that the 69mm pen figure for the gun is with normal AP. I belive that this weapon also has a DU round for it. If Im wrong then we all know what asume stands for!

[DRG]

The only AP round made for the AN/GAU-8 Avenger 30mm gun system is the PGU-14/B Armor Piercing Incendiary (API). That's the DU round. There is no "normal" AP made and the penetration for that round is reported in many places as being between 65-70 mm at 500 yards. As I said, we boosted it up a bit because attacks in the game happen at closer ranges than 500m so it was given a tweak upwards that it may not actually deserve.

Here's one source for the guns penetrative abilities....GAU-8 Avenger

there are others

If you want to see an A10 light up a tank pick a target with less than 9 rear armour and attack from the rear. Most gulf war 1 Iraqi tanks qualify.

It's not a wonder weapon but it does have the mystique of one.

However, if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me

Don

[kevineduguay1]

DRG,

Tried to tweek the A-10 with some results as far as the gun goes without adding PEN. As you said in an earlier post it may be how the game handles multi-barreled weapons on aircraft. I'm glad your working on it.

Now you can look at a site that I found that explains the newer upgrades that will make the A-10 even deadlier and stretch its service life to 2028.

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/a-10/

On this site you will see a statement as follows,

"Using the cannon, the A-10 is capable of disabling a main battle tankfrom a range of over 6,500m."

You will also find that there are two AP rounds for the gun that are both refered to as API (Armor Piercing Incendiary).
One is DU, the other is not. I suspected this because as far as I know the Pen capability of DU rounds is classified as is a ton of other stuff that your trying to portray in this game. I do not envy your job.

The 25mm on the USMC's Harrier jet also fires DU rounds but to a much lesser extent.

That's another story.