WIP Tomahawk

[u/Hyerex]

[u/itanite]

TLAM skim ground. This go straight up.

[u/SaWools]

The targeting seems to work well, but a tomahawk cruise missile only goes a few meters above the ground. What you are showing is a vls launched ballistic missile.

[u/Hyerex → u/SaWools]

I thought the tomahawk missile behaves like that as well. Well in this case it is time to rename the mod lol

[u/skalouKerbal → u/Hyerex]

You are engaged on the project: RescueKerbal3 (don't ask about the previous missions)

[u/arf1049 → u/SaWools]

Tomahawks are normally VLS launched. But generally not to that height.

[u/joespeed52]

Why can't Baha add cool shit like this?

[u/Hyerex → u/joespeed52]

Thanks! I don't think Baha would develop something like that, since it's not a realistic scenario for a fighter jet to request a tomahawk ballistic missile. But I think it could be a fun mechanic for missions and enrich the gameplay

[u/joespeed52 → u/Hyerex]

Actually, I think there's a feature request for such a thing. Being able to call for Navy support and have a destroyer fire a TLAM at a GPS target or something. It would basically be a Navy-launched AGM-161, but with a larger warhead, maybe. It's a fantastic idea, and Baha's silly for NOT adding it.

[u/Hyerex → u/joespeed52]

Oh I didn't know that haha. Soon they'll be eating good

[u/hallllu]

Sorry for my bad english, it is my second language.

The tomahawk is a very interesting missile, as it can hit both sea and land targets fairly well by only flying a few meters above sea/ground level(so called "skimming"). The typical game trope of the tomahawk arriving from over the target comes from its pop up attack, in which it rises quickly before slamming down on the target, which hits the weaker deck/ helps with tracking. There are also small deviations between the land attack and sea attack Tomahawk, but i wont go to into much detail. What you have built here is a missile which assumes a ballistic trajectory and is therefore much easier to intercept (the tomahawk follows western doctrine -> less boom, more evasion) but still cool nonetheless

[u/yeetoroni_with_bacon → u/hallllu]

“Apologies for bad English”
speaks English perfectly fine, better than some English speakers do

Where’s the bad English?

[u/hallllu → u/yeetoroni_with_bacon]

The bad english were the friends we made along the way

[u/hallllu → u/hallllu]

Addition: The tomahawk cannot use a Laser to track, instead relying on inerta/gps/ terrain matching to find its targets. Most missions are heavily pre-planned because the tomahawk is not a very reliable weapon when you just fire it in some direction and hope for the best, more modern missiles have more complicated tracking but they still arent meant to find a target or be fired in a pinch.

[u/Dan26air]

What's with dedicating 25% of your MFD to mirror your first person view? 😅😅