[COMING LATER] LTWS for AIM120

Wags have a nice outlook on what are they are working on for the coming weeks and months. There wasn't an explicit mention of the LTWS.

Is it something we will see in the near future? Is it meant to be under "AA radar debugging"

LTWS will are an other dimension to BVR in the hornet and will make it useful to have some AMRAAMs onboard.

Hope we get some news about it.

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i've checked a few times - no mention of TWS at all..... : (

Was wondering the same thing earlier, but good news is we're finally getting PGMs.

Sorry for the slight hijack - what does the latent bit of LTWS refer to? Thanks.

Basically LTWS does the TWS bit on the contact(s) that's within the TDC caret while still operating in RWS general mode.

Sorry for the slight hijack - what does the latent bit of LTWS refer to? Thanks.

Latent Track While Scan, the functionality is what Eldur described. You can lunch AIM120 on the targets you are tracking without STT. They will notice amissile locking them, only when the AIM120 goes pitbull.

I dont know hoy many simultaneous targets the Hornet can track and launch AMRAAM on though.

Yeah I'm a bit disappointed that LTWS has been on the priority list and 'coming soon' since release, and now 6 months later it's disappeared without an explanation and doesn't even make the top 10.

All in good time. The feature-complete Hornet is gonna be positively badass, and the thirst for more features, like TWS (which I am also itching for), comes from a job well done by ED on everything released so far. We just gotta be patient :)

Yeah I'm a bit disappointed that LTWS has been on the priority list and 'coming soon' since release, and now 6 months later it's disappeared without an explanation and doesn't even make the top 10.

Probably because they want to get the Radar working properly first before adding another layer of complexity to it which they might have to scrap and start again on if more radar issues show up.

LTWS gives the "TUC" or target under cursor functionality.

However, ED is also missing L&S and DT2 designations. These are "soft lock" designations, similar to the 4 designations the DCS F-15 can do in TWS. The difference is the F/A-18C only has 2 designations, not 4. But the F/A-18C can soft lock in both RWS and TWS, where as the DCS F-15 can only do so in TWS. The L&S (launch and steer) track is the primary track. If a weapon is slaved to a radar track, it will only slave to the L&S. Thus you can only engage the L&S track. The DT2 and TUC are purely for SA and the DT2 designation can quickly be switched to the L&S designation by hitting the un-designate button (cycles L&S and DT2 designations).

The three of these (L&S, DT2, TUC) are essentially TWS tracks in RWS mode. Because the antenna scan is very long in RWS, radar tracks (radar bricks are not the same as radar tracks) do not get updated very often. Thus this limited TWS functionality in RWS mode has a low refresh/update rate. Hence the term Latent Track While Scan (LTWS).

While launch symbology is shown for LTWS tracks, the tracks themselves are not weapons quality. Thus, firing a weapon on an LTWS track will switch the radar to TWS (or STT for the AIM-7), convert the LTWS tracks to a L&S track, and launch the weapon.

Good info thanks guys.

Really? Pushed in the wishlist and marked as coming?

Of course we know it's coming, I was asking about some Infos if available from Wags, otherwise I (we) am patiently waiting...

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