Post by Lost in Isaan on Mar 16th, 2011 at 5:57am
OK Guys, I have just spent the last few weeks brutalising some of CS’s work and come up with a Bombing aide for the B52. As I cannot activate the ‘BombLauncher’ option I’ve done away with the ‘Gun’ function and guns in the CSWeapons.xml file and now use it’s variable to trigger Bomb Release. Other limitations and access to code has forced me to make other compromises as well.
But, for the most part it works: One must get some accurate data on their target eg. co-ordinates and altitude, Google Earth will not work you have to send in a small spy plane first. And you need good reflexes especially at altitude and high airspeed.
Extensive strapping tables allows one to drop conventional bombs from 400 to 29000 feet at 160 to 360 knots and nukes from 30000 to 40000 feet up to Mach 0.85.
Missile and Rocket functions unchanged.
When ‘Bomb’ is selected the display changes to look like this and is default. As you are approaching the target waypoint the display is yellow up to 2 to 3 Nm out where it turns red and more accurate computed release data is activated. The Yellow and Red windows on the far right are also used
In this screen shot the target altitude has not been entered so the altitude data is derived when the release display turns red, no worries over flat terrain but a real problem at altitude where the bomb may ‘glide’ up to 5 Nm over hill and dale.
In this case the 1st bomb was to have hit the start of the Runway, missed by about 10 feet to the left but we managed to lay 20 bombs down the runway from 7000 ft at 300 knots.
Different airport where the target start point is the intersection of the two runways. I missed to the right edge (slight error in co-ordinates) but the latitude was OK. 16000 feet at 300 knots
Nuk detonation from 31000 feet at 310 Knots. Trigger finger not good enough and hit the intersecting taxi ways, close enough I guess.
Nuk detonation from 37000 feet at Mach 0.85. Trigger finger a little too itchy but once again good enough.
Now although this package is nearly finished (as far as I can go now) I will not release it until someone from CS contacts me (by email) I need to discuss some legal issues with them first re the way I have rewritten one of their files and relocated them.
PS. Sorry if I have offended anyone by bombing their territory, purely random selections.
But, for the most part it works: One must get some accurate data on their target eg. co-ordinates and altitude, Google Earth will not work you have to send in a small spy plane first. And you need good reflexes especially at altitude and high airspeed.
Extensive strapping tables allows one to drop conventional bombs from 400 to 29000 feet at 160 to 360 knots and nukes from 30000 to 40000 feet up to Mach 0.85.
Missile and Rocket functions unchanged.
When ‘Bomb’ is selected the display changes to look like this and is default. As you are approaching the target waypoint the display is yellow up to 2 to 3 Nm out where it turns red and more accurate computed release data is activated. The Yellow and Red windows on the far right are also used
In this screen shot the target altitude has not been entered so the altitude data is derived when the release display turns red, no worries over flat terrain but a real problem at altitude where the bomb may ‘glide’ up to 5 Nm over hill and dale.
In this case the 1st bomb was to have hit the start of the Runway, missed by about 10 feet to the left but we managed to lay 20 bombs down the runway from 7000 ft at 300 knots.
Different airport where the target start point is the intersection of the two runways. I missed to the right edge (slight error in co-ordinates) but the latitude was OK. 16000 feet at 300 knots
Nuk detonation from 31000 feet at 310 Knots. Trigger finger not good enough and hit the intersecting taxi ways, close enough I guess.
Nuk detonation from 37000 feet at Mach 0.85. Trigger finger a little too itchy but once again good enough.
Now although this package is nearly finished (as far as I can go now) I will not release it until someone from CS contacts me (by email) I need to discuss some legal issues with them first re the way I have rewritten one of their files and relocated them.
PS. Sorry if I have offended anyone by bombing their territory, purely random selections.