Okay so this Cruise Activity in ordnance is driving me up a wall. I brought it up in a previous thread but now I really want to figure out what these numbers mean. We already know from my testing that altitude is increments of 250 feet - so a setting of 4 means 1,000 feet - over the target. Distance on the other hand has been puzzling me left & right.
I did some testing now with the settings of 100/20/0/0.
This means that at whatever a setting of 100 corresponds to, the missile will fly to an altitude of 5,000 feet over the target's altitude.
With these settings, I fired on the target at a bunch of ranges and somewhere around 4.4nm the missile ignored the 20 and went direct to the target. Now, 4.4 nm = 5 mi. Could it be that this is in 1/20ths of a mile? You might think so but then if I set it to 200, that would correspond to 10 mi or 8.7 nm. The threshold for loft v. no loft with 200 is 8.4nm but it should be 8.7 if the above is true.
So, who wants to help trial & error with me?
Of course, figuring out the # is only half the battle because when I tested a value in secondary dist it just made even less sense.
Help files being useless as ever:
