Laser defence

[lukemax 0]

Hi

I recenly took a tour around a Britsh army Merlin helicopter and it has these new systems which are lasers they deflect missled by firing a laser at them which scrambles there systems which sent the missle of course according to our tour guide they so far have a 100% sucees rate the only thing that went wroong inntesting was the missle went of course and hit the wire holding the test helicopter up!

I dont know how this would work in OFP but its just info that

could be used!¬

Probly in a scrpit or something

Thanks

Luke

[cornhelium 0]

Hi Lukemax,

I wonder if this is the same IR countermeasures system used on the Apache, lovingly known as the "Disco Lights"!

If I remember right from the Longbow2 days, this is a forward-facing array mounted just in front of the rotor mast. When the IR warning sensor picks up the exhaust of a launching/boosting missile, the Disco Lights automatically fire out a sweep of laser beams and hopefully one of the beams happens to shine into the missile's IR sensor and blinds it. Standard procedure in LB2 was to get in a hover, hold a second to let the disco lights do their thing and then do a quick sideslip

Infra Red missiles are darn scary things - they don't emit anything like a radar or laser targeting system does, so you don't know you're being targeted until the moment the missile is launched, and then only if you/your copilot/wingman/IR warning reciever sees it. Shoulder launched IR missiles are the worst for chopper pilots I think, 'cause a radar won't even pick up the guy who'll fire it at you.

In LB2 safe flying was all about creeping around at 40kts/15 feet, stopping often to have a good look around with Infra-Red. The feeling of achievement when you got back home after a long night in the mountains, scenting out an enemy base and letting your wingman rack up some experience points by destroying it, was massive.

...between the detailed terrain, soldier/vehicle interaction, the HUD/avionics improvements of BAS, DKM etc. and things like the CoC UA and Dynamic Missions, I reckon that OFP/OFP2 will produce the definitive chopper game at some point in her lifetime  

Here's a link to another great chopper sim in the making:

http://www.combat-helo.com

Cheers,

Cornhelium

[Chriz 0]

I recenly took a tour around a Britsh army Merlin helicopter and it has these new systems which are lasers they deflect missled by firing a laser at them which scrambles there systems which

this called dircm [directional infa red counter measures}

my dad works on it for bae systems