Smart Bullets for Specialized Aircraft/Ground Vehicles

[strong viper]

-The guided rounds would also be very effective in strafing runs against lightly armored convoys. While they would be of little use against heavily armored units such as tanks, they could allow more consistent hits from ground attack aircraft and reduce the chance of needing to make a second pass.

-With the likely introduction of small, lightly armored, relatively low speed drones, a guided low caliber main weapon would be a cost effective method of destroying them. It will also serve as a good weapon for challenging slow VTOL craft that IR weapons may be ineffective against.

Possible Users

-A smart gun could possibly equipped as a more expensive alternative to the standard main gun on some aircraft, or it could be used as a selling point on new aircraft specifically built around using one.

-It could also be used in SPAAGs and other high volume-of-fire anti air weapons, although this could be perilous to balance.

[loud grove]

Not sure about small caliber bullets like 25mm and smaller. But for bigger it have some sense, but in this case same system will not use in every shell, maybe 1 of 3 or 4. Why? Because in real life this very expensive and have not big abilities to turn. And this will mean even in future same type of bullets will use pretty rare

[strong viper]

I feel like the cost concern is primarily covered by this being in the future, as this sort of thing already somewhat exists in the form of the guided shells used by the Tarantula, except this would be in a smaller form with a faster fire rate. I don't know why that would be impossibly expensive, I imagine your ammo drum would only be 300-400 shots anyway in comparison to the ridiculous amount of guided shells a tarantula can carry

[dense rune]

Dude Northrop Grumman is already making their defense commercial things for guided bullets from 30mm flak to 155mm shells

[modern ruin]

I wonder how it can be implemented, if for example like tarantula 76mm, then it would be quite laggy and spammy on the minimap, because each shell is considered as munition, and its not like regular bullets

But for Spaags, it will fix their issue with bad targeting of munition, when they dont account their trajectory at all, tho i have feeling that its more of a bug...

[dense rune]

I would say make them projectiles fired from slow recharging coilguns

You get a few shots per capacitor charge, but they go faster and are somewhat guided and have bigger caliber. Just don’t miss!

[strong viper]

Yea I knew it was a real thing already, main reason I suggested it lol

[dense rune]

It’s crazy isn’t it

[strong viper]

I think standard chemical propulsion is probably more feasible for aircraft and regular vehicles, but maybe a ship with more space for bigger capacitors would be able to make use of one as an AA system

[strong viper]

I also had this concern, but since they would for the most part be regular bullets and not viable interception targets, maybe they wouldnt need to show on the map at all?

[modern ruin]

That definetly would be better yeah, I just think that it would be harder to implement that way
but im not a dev, so yeah xd

[strong viper]

They would also not be as "lob-able" as 76mm shells due to low mass so you wouldn't have the issue of someone spamming smart bullets from across the map. You would generally still need a direct line of sight on your target and be relatively close

[clear plinth]

Why not go for a tracking gun rather than tracking bullets?

[olive snow]

with the way bullet simulation works right now, it likely wouldn't support such guidance and each round would have to be an individual munition... fun idea nonetheless

[proper fossil]

yay, 400 missiles each in range of 7 radars and requiring raycasts to figure out if they are in LOS or not!! :)

[hidden pelican]

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[proper fossil]

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