DCS F/A-18C Hornet Air to Ground Radar & LITENING Targeting Pod Tutorial!

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Hey guys, sorry for this video coming a bit late, I've been pretty busy IRL but wanted to bring you guys something on the new Air to Ground Radar and TPOD updates!
This tutorial is about how to use the Air To Ground Radar in conjunction with the LITENING Targeting Pod to find and attack targets as quickly and efficiently as possible if you dont have access to satellite navigation or the F10 map!
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@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

I know its a bit late now but I did want to bring you guys something to show off the new air to ground radar and TPOD updates in the latest open beta update! This video shows how to use the air to ground radar in conjunction with the TPOD to find and acquire targets quickly and efficiently!

@DJones476 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, Spud, awesome vid, Man. I'm seriously looking forward to the expand and freeze modes.

@Taipan303 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, did they give any indication when it would move over to stable?

@sometoastxd 2 жыл бұрын

There is another reason to use the A/G radar, it's the best method to detect targets in all weather conditions when flying historically accurate missions prior to 2001. TGPs are a very modern piece of equipment and hornets flew for a long time without them.

@colderwar 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video - as always :))) you really have a knack for explaining things while also adding some interesting side information along the way...

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you man!

@MattVarnish1103 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe ground targets arent the best targets, but since it can pick up ships on the water... its good for Harpooning!

@schweizerluchs7146 4 жыл бұрын

I like it the most for Visual IDing😁

@Rhinozherous 4 жыл бұрын

Very clear and direct, thank you very much!

@clevercat5844 4 жыл бұрын

Good stuff here, thanks Spudknocker!

@picoletor 4 жыл бұрын

cool that you are using an ALA-15 spanish C.15!

@joshuastone2820 4 жыл бұрын

Gotta say I love the on the fly back story

@OzDeaDMeaT 4 жыл бұрын

Great video mate, thnx

@FalcoGer 3 жыл бұрын

I can see that being useful in tasmo engagements where the targets will be on the move. And if you launch from 100 miles away you will not always have great waypoints and randomly slewing your targeting pod around to look over the sea will only get you an s300 in the face before you know what happened.

@charlylesuedois4129 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very interesting !

@Bane_Diesel 4 жыл бұрын

Too bad I fell in love with the tomcat man the hornet has all the cool shit... looks like I will have to buck up and relearn how to fly the hornet.

@DJones476 4 жыл бұрын

@Orangebike666: You can always cheat on the kitty with the bug...

@homelander7506 3 жыл бұрын

Tomcats hard mode compared to the Hornet which is easy as shit.

@Sinbad683 4 жыл бұрын

Yep I gotta relearn how to fly the Hornet. I'm currently campaigning my way through with the Tomcat

@ALPHARICCO875 4 жыл бұрын

Super, thanks

@flyingfatcats517 3 жыл бұрын

New to DCS, thanks for the video! Big question: I see on this video and others that your head moves around and you can zoom in nicely. What are you all using, TrackIR, VR or? Whatever it is, I need it!

@RealVENOMous 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Spud, I tried that on my created mission, found my TGT on the AG radar and my FLIR never sync'd to the target as yours did. I literally put my TGT on my WP3 and the FLIR was no where close

@hellcat611 4 жыл бұрын

I knew Ol' Spuddy would do us a solid with a review.

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

Haha here I am!

@Pekins 3 жыл бұрын

cool video, but wished you explain how you are zooming in and out, and how do you laser something.

@TacticalError 4 жыл бұрын

Hi spud, you can also turn the JHMCS off by tapping the "RECCE Event Mark Switch" on the stick! It will not fully disable tho, so it will still slew a sidewinder, but it hides the symbology.

@razorseal 4 жыл бұрын

That's cool to know!

@stingerrgb2754 3 жыл бұрын

Funny that all comments got a heart, except this one...

@deejayGOLDEE 3 жыл бұрын

without targeting pods, possible to lock groundtarget? ( with markpoints)

@burtpilon1735 4 жыл бұрын

Do you have to hold the trigger down when turning on the laser ? Or just one click to turn on and off. Thx man for your tutorials they are helping me tremendously 👍🏻

@kerbo312 4 жыл бұрын

Hold

@razorseal 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that. Question 1 - How do you activate laser before it goes off automatically? I thought it was the "trigger" but that didn't work. Also I tried mapping first detent, and that didn't work. Question 2 - Why is it "bad form" to lase early? I would think it'd help align the bomb better from higher altitude. Thanks!

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

You need to have the TRIG boxed in the upper right soft Key

@EricSeelig 4 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that the reason it's bad form to lase early is that the guidance system on the LGBs is not that sophisticated. Once the bomb picks up the laser spot and starts guiding, it can only use full deflection of the strakes one way or the other to keep the nose pointed at the target. So rather than falling in a ballistic parabola, it tries to fall in a straight line. If you lase too early, the bomb may lack the energy to get to the target and wind up falling short. In the Warthog you can set the autolase time, and the usual recommendation is ~8 seconds.

@SakibLH44 3 жыл бұрын

how do you get the free float camera angle for all of the intros? it's so badass

@flyingpedal 4 жыл бұрын

Very good video ! Its only Beta version ?

@JayDKB 4 жыл бұрын

I just click thumbs up before I even watch the video, I already know its going to be a banger video

@Matthew.1994 2 жыл бұрын

okay finding targets near a city is kinda ez with the radar but what if the target is in the middle of nowhere and you dont ahve waypoints. when there is no large radar spots like a city. how do you find those?

@tim-3705 Жыл бұрын

Trgt on located on the right of the flir display does not show up for my, and clicking the arming button causes it to switch back immediately. Help 😢

@yieovgwqxaz7912 Жыл бұрын

The f16 ground radar seems more high resolution?? Weird since f18 should be more a/g capable

@danijelkraljev 4 жыл бұрын

Great job Spud,but would you still stay on open beta or go to stable version after latest update,thx

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

I’m always open beta

@danijelkraljev 4 жыл бұрын

@@Spudknocker Ok,Iwas wondering sholud I go on stable and what is adva. /disatvantage?

@kurothas2181 4 жыл бұрын

Why not with autolase? Its a much appreciate addition to the Pod, you could show this as well next time! It works with GBU´s and E-MAV´s very well

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

True I think I get caught not Trusting It haha

@razorseal 4 жыл бұрын

What's this about? the letting it lase itself?

@DJones476 4 жыл бұрын

@@razorseal "Ahhh...that's classified, uhm... You're on a need-to-know basis... We pray to God no one needs to _know_!"

@vJaBoG32Laud 3 жыл бұрын

On a sidenote: Lasing early is not bad form. It just elevates the risk of the bomb falling short because of it putting in too much steering too early and thereby bleeding its forward velocity.

@TacticalSandals 4 жыл бұрын

how did you get your gameplay so buttery smooth? I have been having micro stutters every 10-20 seconds ever since the lighting update which was 2.5.6.2 (not sure why it made that a hyperlink..)

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

Hey man have you tried deleting your Meta shaders and FXO folders in your Saved Games folder?

@TacticalSandals 4 жыл бұрын

@@Spudknocker Sadly yes, its always the first thing I do after any major updates. (not so much the mini hotfixs)

@TealJosh 4 жыл бұрын

The hyperlink happened because the version number looks like an IP address. The lighting update is unfortunately more graphics intensive so you might have to take the L and lower the graphics settings. Big performance hits come from terrain object shadows, SSAA, SSLR and anistopic filtering. Also make sure that you don't have any outdated nvidia graphics settings enabled for the game. That update broke some the anti aliasing stuff from nvidia's control panel side of things

@TacticalSandals 4 жыл бұрын

@@TealJosh naw I figured it out, adding the autoexec.cfg with the hotplug disabled command line fixed the issue. I think the update a while back got rid of that file that I had added and just never noticed. Putting it back in the config folder got rid of all the stutters. 2080 super,32gb of ram and DCS is installed on a nvme ssd so dont think it has anything to do with the actual hardware.

@TealJosh 4 жыл бұрын

@@TacticalSandals damn I should check that myself. EDIT: Yup, it was removed for me as well.

@utley 4 жыл бұрын

GMT isnt implemented yet, is it?

@47SCIPIO 4 жыл бұрын

I've noticed the last few days or so whenever I get airborne and turn on the TPOD it automatically designates a random point on the ground by itself a d I'm then unable to slew the TPOD at all no matter what I do. I have to turn the tpod off then back on again to designate a new target or area. Anyone have any suggestions?

@TheMrGamma195 3 жыл бұрын

Use the sensor select right again if it's stuck in point track you can cycle through it or you could use the cage uncage button most of the time it should be in snowplow mode on first activation

@mykneeme 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks @@TheMrGamma195 you’ve helped me out with this tip.

@abyssalreclass 4 жыл бұрын

Honestly I imagine the air to ground radar will be better for finding ships to attack right now

@iltgdellosportivo2066 4 жыл бұрын

Ground radar is very used in real life. U dont have a map and don't know where enemy tanks could be. It isn used to find an island or a city like u did but to find ships and jeeps bvr. Set the gain to the minimum place some tanks in the editor and try to find them only with the radar. Very satisfying trust me

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

You are incorrect sir

@klk1900 2 жыл бұрын

The A-G radar is used a lot more now. In Syria GPS guided weapons are useless. They have a net jamming system that will jam gps guided weapons. Jdam/cruise missles etc

@chadvader974 2 жыл бұрын

How the heck do you zoom your targeting pod so far in. Mine 1) when i press zoom it doesnt smoothly zoom in like yours, it jumps frame by frame and 2) my level of zoom is no where near yours at that range :(

@pxolqopt3597 4 ай бұрын

It sounds like you're using the atflir and not the litening

@sloppydog4831 4 жыл бұрын

"C-130s are evil" - Wagner, Matt -2020

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

They are very evil!

@47SCIPIO 4 жыл бұрын

Can confirm. If you've ever had to ride in one you know. They're the devil

@Despiser25 Жыл бұрын

You should put a cap on your video length. 15 minutes max. Like this one ;) An hour video usually takes me two or three hours to watch ;)

@johnathandoe9346 4 жыл бұрын

I can'l get my laser to fire, even while holding the trigger down.

@Spudknocker 4 жыл бұрын

Is the laser armed and do you have TRIG boxed?

@johnathandoe9346 4 жыл бұрын

@@Spudknocker my LTD/R switch don't stay armed . I'll flick it on and it'll flick back to safe.

@schweizerluchs7146 4 жыл бұрын

@@johnathandoe9346 it does that since the last update if you autolase it. You have to cycle it every time!

@CalinDee 4 жыл бұрын

@@johnathandoe9346 If you mean it instantly flicks back to safe mode, then you havent selected AG mode. As Schweizer Luchs has said, if autolasing it will automatically reset to safe a few seconds after impact. You will need to re-arm prior to any follow-up drops.

@thebiggestoneyouveverhad 4 жыл бұрын

T-pod still has no auto lasing function huh?

@JSpidey 4 жыл бұрын

It does.

@seaniam81 4 жыл бұрын

Ya it does now. If you don't use the trig function on the FLIR and have the laser armed it'll fire the auto laser. Just remember to rearm the laser after use.

@necatisahin6585 4 жыл бұрын

F-18 BLOCK-3 produced, if you tell her too

@mikeduffy67 2 жыл бұрын

TMA .... Too Many Acronyms :)

@eq1373 3 жыл бұрын

this is by far the most frustrating thing to try to do in the Hornet

@dat_spartan_gamer7322 4 жыл бұрын

hello

@erikpotter767 4 жыл бұрын

Cool vid, and I know it's DCS is just a game. But, remember in the real aircraft you don't, just get to press the f10 map to see were the bad guys are. You don't get the luxury of hitting pause eather. 😆 LOL

@Happy-tp4jd 3 жыл бұрын

no the reason ag radar isn't used is that its trash, could pick up a camel that's moving

@floppa1-166 4 жыл бұрын

‘Wagnermobile’

@Obi1-KenBone-Me 4 жыл бұрын

Theres nothing to talk about the surf mode.Its completely useless right now

@papabear6382 4 жыл бұрын

i can't see any useful or convenient application of A/G for me it seems it's complicates everything to much. F10 map is way more convenient. unless i fail to see applications of A/G radar being better than f10 map i think A/G radar is completely pointless and don't needed.

@phillipharrison8463 4 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about using a fully visible F10 map to find targets? Because if so why play a sim then? Moving tank column, ships at sea. I know in the real F16, not sure about F18 you can cancel out stationery objects and terrain to only show stuff that is moving

@papabear6382 4 жыл бұрын

@@phillipharrison8463 no i'm not talking about fully visible map. if there is already known position of any targets A/G radar is pointless.

@TealJosh 4 жыл бұрын

@@papabear6382 it's not pointless for sea targets. I'm not sure how realistic ED is going to make the A/G radar, but it should be able do some quite clever things with forests.

@DJones476 4 жыл бұрын

@@TealJosh They can only make it as realistic as the law allows. A lot of the AN/APG-73 radar's features are still classified. I remember when the Link-16, IFF, and NCTR were all still _highly_ classified.

@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261 4 жыл бұрын

@@papabear6382 it's actually super useful, at least in Falcon BMS - easy to spot a group of vehicles on the AG radar and then slave your TPOD to that point. For the initial acquisition of a group of targets it is very efficient. I guess it adds to your situational awareness too, which can't be bad.