0005875: MELB ATAS Lock on problems/not working

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(0011024) fire-39_1 (reporter) 2020-09-17 00:18	May also be related to another issue I found where the locking capability seems to be affected by height over terrain where missile will acquire but not lock over ~170m MSL (see video). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztcKVJZ_pEo [^] This was done with the previous version of RHS I think however issue remains.

(0011025) dedmen (reporter) 2020-09-17 01:02	All my tests were done in VR terrain at about 80m height above ground

(0011028) da12thMonkey (administrator) 2020-09-17 13:05 edited on: 2020-09-17 15:42	Have investigated it in the past and wasn't able to resolve it yet. IIRC the vanilla WY-55 Hellcat has the same issue with vanilla IR missiles like ASRAAM. I think it's possibly that on such helicopters the gunner's IR turret sensor overrides the direction of the missile's own IR sensor, since this is a common trait of the three helicopters in question. So, possible an Arma 3 bug Ed:- After playing around with the AH-6 a bit more: The ATAS can lock when using pilot's Manual Fire override of the gunner's weapons if there is a gunner in the vehicle - the missile will steer towards targets. But for some reason it just never shows the square/diamond bracket for marked/locked targets unless the pilot owns the pylon, so you don't really know if it's locked until you fire the missile Without a gunner, it doesn't appear that manual override works at all As for difficulty locking on with e.g. the AH-64. All our MANPAD-based AA missiles are set up to have a hard time distinguishing targets against terrain clutter so are not great at finding low-flying enemies. The upshot of this is that to get a lock at more than 1km distance you need to be flying at a lower altitude than your target so that the missile can pick it out against the sky rather than the terrain

(0011029) fire-39_1 (reporter) 2020-09-17 19:48	I did some further testing with this and it seems to not be a MSL thing but relation to each heli, in my testing with the ah-64 today if the Apache was level to or above the target heli then lock on was not possible firing aircraft has to be under target aircraft altitude, with this in mind I successfully fired and hit target with the ATAS out to 5km.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-09-16 22:47	dedmen	New Issue
2020-09-17 00:18	fire-39_1	Note Added: 0011024
2020-09-17 01:02	dedmen	Note Added: 0011025
2020-09-17 08:44	reyhard	Severity	major => minor
2020-09-17 13:05	da12thMonkey	Note Added: 0011028
2020-09-17 13:05	da12thMonkey	Note Edited: 0011028	View Revisions
2020-09-17 15:22	da12thMonkey	Note Edited: 0011028	View Revisions
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2020-09-17 15:42	da12thMonkey	Note Edited: 0011028	View Revisions
2020-09-17 19:48	fire-39_1	Note Added: 0011029

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