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March 21, 2019 at 8:18 pm #1364631

limburger

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I remember flying the Apache (Gunship 2000! and Jane’s longbow simulator, never the real thing) and ‘flying tank’ definitely fits the profile.

Didn’t the F-16 do its own laser targetting ?
Or is that something that got added as a feature at a later date ?
source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-guided_bomb

Accuracy of these things definitely is insane, but then flight simulator games have shown me how hard dropping a ‘classic’ gravity guided bomb is compared to firing a maverick or hellfire missile (which are pretty much ‘point & kill’) that makes sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-65_Maverick

Wiki says Mavericks were used in Yom Kippur war

It’s definitely fun if your ‘game tactics’ start to mirror actual real world tactics.
Special rules to force that kind of behaviour are a bit odd (and not quite as interesting).