Making a D.I.Y. munitions dispenser/SOD

[SayethWhaaaa 245]

A while ago a made a crude, although reasonably effective SOD from a Harpoon ASM fitted with CBU style warhead. The concept worked in princible but it could easily be made better. Once fault in particular was that the would directly impact the target and then spray the area with the submunitions. I don't recall, but is there an entry somewhere in the CBU data that allows for the submunitions to be released at a certain height or distance from the target? And if so, can this then be applied to a missile type platform? I'm reasonably certain it can but since I don't have the weap editors nor a weaps pack at my work station, I can't find out.

[+saint aj 0]

A while ago a made a crude, although reasonably effective SOD from a Harpoon ASM fitted with CBU style warhead. The concept worked in princible but it could easily be made better. Once fault in particular was that the would directly impact the target and then spray the area with the submunitions. I don't recall, but is there an entry somewhere in the CBU data that allows for the submunitions to be released at a certain height or distance from the target? And if so, can this then be applied to a missile type platform? I'm reasonably certain it can but since I don't have the weap editors nor a weaps pack at my work station, I can't find out.

 

 

Yeah, you can fine tune the CBU data to set the release altitude. I've been experimenting with a similar design for an anti-radiation missile, using the cluster bomblets to increase the chance of taking out the SAM installation in one go.

 

A cluster dispenser opening up at mach 3 looks pretty badass. The bomblet distribution pattern is similar to a shotgun blast.

Edited September 24, 2007 by saint aj

[SayethWhaaaa 245]

A cluster dispenser opening up at mach 3 looks pretty badass. The bomblet distribution pattern is similar to a shotgun blast.

 

Cheers AJ (hehe, those are my initials ). Yeah, it's working a little more effectively now. I've upped the damage ever so slightly, increadsed the bomblet spread and decreased the missile/dispenser speed only because I figure bomblets being fired from a dispenser travelling at Mach 3+ is going to spread them over an area the size of New Zealand... but then again, it's just NZ, what are the Hobbits going to do? jk