Flash Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 At the Range with my M1A2, I have targets slowly driving left and right at about 1500 yards. My Laser Finder is reading a good range at about 1800 yards. When I shoot, my HEAT rounds are splashing at about 1000 yards. Well short of the target.Is the Laser finder not feeding into the computer? Is there something about the HEAT round that I need to change to get an accurate firing solution? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grenny Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 You probably still have sabot indexed. Fcs then fails to apply the correct elevation. Change to heat and you ll be fine....its all in the manual 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Yup the M1 series is bit of an oddity in that the Gunner indexes the round type. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 Thanks for the quick reply, I will reference the manual to see what indexing means. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Basically you need to tell the fire control system what type of round you have loaded so it can take those trajectories and other data into account.Pretty sure its covered extensively in the Gunnery tutorials. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 Awesome, thanks, I would expect the computer to know what kind of round is loaded, but I'm very new to this whole thing.I'm playing through the tutorials now. Very concise and easy to follow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 Tutorial GunneryF covers this topic if any other new players need help.Oddly, I was doing it correctly, but had to F1 back off the GPS sight then get back on it after selecting the proper ammo type (hotkey) before I could get close with the HEAT rounds.Not sure if this was a fluke, operator error or some kind of bug in the GunneryF tutorial that caused my HEAT rounds to overshoot targets until I came off the scope (GPS) and went back on it.No biggie. I'm going to start playing scenarios to get some experience. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 I would expect the computer to know what kind of round is loaded, but I'm very new to this whole thing.Yes but it is the Gunner pressing the relvant button that tells the computer.The revelvant keyboard equivalents have just been listed for you.There is no electronic tag on the round that somehow automatically tells the computer that ammunition nature X is now in the breech. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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