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#3850819 - 10/16/13 07:24 PM Why aren't my bombs exploding?  
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Title says it all. I am back to BMS 4.32 update 6 and when my bombs hot the ground I am not rewarded with the satisfying ker-thump! What am I doing or not doing?


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#3850865 - 10/16/13 09:33 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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Need more info. Master arm on? Which bombs exactly? More info!


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#3850882 - 10/16/13 10:41 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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Probably bomb arm time needs adjusting if you are dropping low level


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#3850888 - 10/16/13 10:55 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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Master arm in on. I am attempting CCIP delivery in about a 20-30 degree dive from about 10k ant 3nm from the target. MK-76 seem to work but any 500lb bomb duds or will not pickle. I don't know what to do.


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#3850897 - 10/16/13 11:08 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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Press-and-hold the pickle button. I suspect you are entering consent-release CCRP at that point, wherein CCIP is actually post-designate CCRP (sorry, might have my terms wrong).


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#3850980 - 10/17/13 03:25 AM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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Exploding or releasing?

Exploding might be fuze or fuze time issues.

#3851034 - 10/17/13 09:06 AM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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Press and hold pickle button 1 sec before releasing cue hits your FPM(FlightPathMarker)

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#3851156 - 10/17/13 06:41 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: nadal]  
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Originally Posted By: nadal
Press and hold pickle button 1 sec before releasing cue hits your FPM(FlightPathMarker)


There is no release cue as he is attempting a CCIP drop.


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#3851256 - 10/18/13 12:14 AM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: - Ice]  
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Originally Posted By: - Ice
Originally Posted By: nadal
Press and hold pickle button 1 sec before releasing cue hits your FPM(FlightPathMarker)


There is no release cue as he is attempting a CCIP drop.


ahh my bad

If having releasing problem with CCIP, I think I saw a post in BMS forum thats saying when a gap between estimated impact point at the release stage and desired impact point gets too big it doesnt accept release.(Like the situation where you hold down the pickle in CCIP and wait for releasing cue to hit FPM)

Another factor I can think of is pickle button issue that Falcon4 had.
They should have implemented experimental fix with the recent BMS patch though.

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#3851543 - 10/18/13 06:53 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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For a CCRP drop, you press-and-hold pickle about 2-3 seconds before the counter gets to zero.

For a CCIP drop, you have to make sure there is no CCIP Delay Cue. If there isn't then you are dropping in CCIP and the bombs will release immediately after pressing the pickle button. If there is a Delay Cue, then you will be entering "post-designate CCIP" and will have to press-and-hold the pickle button until the bombs come off. Read up on p.138-139 of the F4AF manual for more info.

Hope that helps!


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#3853189 - 10/23/13 07:58 AM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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#3853942 - 10/24/13 10:15 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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As Frederf mentioned - fuzing. I had the same difficulty: my old method for CCIP wasn't resulting in BOOM! - despite hits. Reduce your altitude or time to zero or extremely close and see what happens. If the bomb doesnt have sufficient time or altitude (forgetting which away from machine), it won't arm.

Fixed it for me.

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#3854910 - 10/27/13 11:01 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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Did a few tests tonight. 10K altitude, pitch down at 3nm from target, CCIP drop, MK82 LDGP, 2sec arming delay. It doesn't even display the delay cue. My FPM is about 25degrees nose down, I release at about 6K altitude. The bombs come off straight away. Speed is about 400+knots.

So I'm not sure if fuzing/arming delay is the culprit here, unless he has it to something ridiculously high, like 10 seconds.


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#3854966 - 10/28/13 01:46 AM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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There are a few bugs in F4 regarding nose-tail fuzing which takes the higher of the two times instead of the lower. Whatever the time says on the MFD page is the arming time even if reality would be different (nose 2, tail 10, NT selected).

#3856295 - 10/30/13 10:35 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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ZERO seconds delay.
Also, there are a number of entries for arming and altitude on the correct MFD page. I dont have Falcon open here, so cannot give you precise entry to make sure you have changed.

I am ALMOST certain this parameter is causing your problem, but cannot be positive. Perhaps you could post a screenshot of your MFD page so we could all view it.

You are discussing CCIP, correct?
If you are talking about CCRP, my recollection is that you are in a dive, not nearly level and kind of sounds amuck. For CCIP, I simply place the death dot pipper on the target and get down a bit lower than you at release.

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#3856381 - 10/31/13 01:00 AM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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I'm still not sure if we are describing difficultly getting the weapons to leave the aircraft or getting the bombs to explode when they impact the ground.

Zero seconds AD is a weird value that just maybe will cause problems. I would set it to 4.0 sec nominally as that's a normal USAF minimal setting.

#3856725 - 10/31/13 09:44 PM Re: Why aren't my bombs exploding? [Re: sgtduder]  
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Well, the OP needs to confirm his arming delay settings. Also, his initial posts are confusing whether the bombs actually separate from the aircraft or not.

If it is dropping but not exploding, then possibly the arming delay settings is the culprit. If the bombs aren't coming off at all, then there is something wrong with either the switch settings or the actual delivery method.


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