Laser Guided Bombs in the DCS F-16: The Ultimate Guide

[TrickerDCS]

Thank you for the continued support! I used the wrong phrase by saying the laser guided bomb “rides the beam” which is incorrect. It looks for a reflection and guides to it.

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[SportDCS]

I’m so happy someone finally made a SIMPle tutorial on how to use laser guided bombs in the F-16. All the other ones were far too complicated and I ended up just getting my unit stuck in the tpod. This was amazing!

[bjorn.thorvaldson]

Man, your tutorials are simply THE BEST. Telling every single time when and which buttons you press (especially TMS for F16) and simply proceeding through setting the systems through ICP, DED and OSBs procedure step by step is EXTREMELY useful. :)

A true joy to watch and learn.

[Sinbad]

"Boom Shakalaka!" Damn I haven't heard that in Decades lol. Good Guide, thank you!

[no-thoughts-head-empty]

Never knew that you could see the distance to your TGP target. Thanks Tricker, learned something new today!

[gunnar]

If you notice that your target cursor keeps slewing unintentionally, and won't lock with the TMS up or TMS right commands, put some dead zone on the axis controls of RDR cursor. If I want to attack a target that's not at a pre-selected steerpoint, I'll make the FCR SOI and do coarse target selection there, before moving to the laser pod.

[tonybeard]

I just downloaded the mission and saw the link, thought i'd have a little look, VERY informative, simple and quick explanation. Thank you Tricker! I subbed!

[kruxyo]

Was looking for one of these tutorials and you JUST uploaded this, good help! 😅😅

[DaTater]

@trickerDCS trhanks for sharing this. I praticed using the mission today. Super helpful to be able to play the tutorial and step through each stage of each run.

[wraith]

One caveat on the markpoint creation (I'm sorry, there's always one in every comment section and it happens to be me today): after you use M SEL to set the newly created markpoint as your selected steerpoint, you'll likely notice your TGP wander off to Narnia. TMS aft with the TGP as SOI or pressing the cursor zero OSB will snap it back to the waypoint; the reason it does this is your SOI is stored as an offset from the selected steerpoint, so if for example you slew 200 meters west from steerpoint 1, create a markpoint, then set that markpoint as your active steerpoint, your SOI will move to 200 meters west of the target you marked.

[speedbird]

No bullshit. Required information only. Excellent. Again.

[PappaBear_yt]

Great tutorial, Tricker! 👍🏻👏🏻💪🏻🙋🏼‍♂️🍻🍻

[iammorpheus]

Hello, Thank you for this video. Just to clarify one thing. When your lasing the target. Your not holding the trigger down when you drop the bomb correct. You set the laser to fire automatically at 12 sec correct. I was dumb founded, I never knew I could automatically have the laser fire on it own in the f-16 like the f-18.

[PanosIvRS]

Thank you, Tricker for the tutorial, the mission and the livery ! I tried the mission with laser code 1511 and I couldn't hit the targets. I managed to have success hit only with laser code 1688.

[macedk]

Was about to ask you for some gbu tactics, I will do the left turn now. Thx man. :)

[_JackX_]

hey tricker love your videos, maybe i would have shown some moving targets drops and i would have pointed out that the TGP in area mode tracks the ground under the tank/heli. still loved the video

[THEdanrugaming]

Did you manually switch to INR track for keeping the pod on target during masking? I remember a video from Wags about it a while back but it may have changed since?

[idopristinsky]

Just wondering, when would you use lazer guided bombs over jdam or jsow since they both dont need visual id on targets, also how do drop lazer guided bomb on a lazer mark that is not mine?

[XNE]

hmm, weird. Grt vid. Clr and concise. Followed all directions. 4 misses. tried it again leaving the default code of 1688, 4 shacks

[M_Sheridan]

Hey tricker what store do you use to hold 2 gnu’s on 1 pylon? I can only equip 1 on a pylon