DCS F/A-18C - AGM-65E/F Maverick

[@neelakiller]

Been a minute since I used the Maverick much and this is a very good summary of both variants.

[@echovictordcsworld]

Thank you for the comment! Just starting out with KZbin, glad you enjoyed

[@Uselessnoobcow]

You don’t need to manually fire the laser, just press and hold weapon release and it will auto lase

[@echovictordcsworld]

Thanks for the tip! And equally if you tell a JTAC to fire a laser, there is no need to continue to fly towards the target as they will be lasing the target

[@amorosogombe9650]

It's a surprising amount of work to have to do, especially if you're in contested airspace and also have to contend with enemies shooting at you.

[@echovictordcsworld]

It's certainly not easy. Yet another benefit of having a Weapon Systems Operator (WSOp) in the back seat, like in Tornado. More modern aircraft systems use Datalink where ISTAR assets can send a target point directly to the aircraft, and the pilot just needs to accept the target point and fire the weapon.

[@piloto_loco]

quite some click arounds to get it to work. thanks for the explanation. checking for your other vids for the other weapons.

[@echovictordcsworld]

Mavericks are notoriously fiddly to get working. Glad to hear you managed to get them to work though!

[@josephmagana6235]

Ship should also change the tracking to hit ship targets lower in the hull rather than the visible centroid. Also, IRL I think it's an actual switch on the weapon, the in-flight setting in the MFD is a DCS-ism.

[@echovictordcsworld]

Nice! Thanks for the tip

[@magnitudefallout3944]

Fun fact: DCS Hornet tutorial mission with Mavericks, gives you the laser guided version ones (4x), and no laser.

[@echovictordcsworld]

For the tutorial mission, they have set up a JTAC that you can contact and they will fire a laser for you

[@magnitudefallout3944]

thanks, I was really confused back then when I was learning in DCS

[@echovictordcsworld]

@@magnitudefallout3944 I'll be doing a tutorial on JTACs in the future as they are a pain to try and get working

[@FourthExile]

can you 'fire and forget' after you fire the MAV-F or do you have to keep tracking?

[@echovictordcsworld]

Yes, you can. And if the laser is from a JTAC then you can fire and forget the MAV-E too

[@mattcraig6524]

great video!

[@echovictordcsworld]

great comment!

[@OllyDenning]

amazing, new sub!

[@abhinandanbal9931]

Nice. Can you do a Hornet cold start?

[@echovictordcsworld]

Absolutely. With all the new systems, it'll be good to have an up to date cold start