remember mortar are not main weapon for direct attack , they are support weapon , their real purpose is to cause chaos and decrease moral on the battlefield . Causing damage and taking down the target is just a bonus . And just go with the old method of (distance x degree x wind speed and direction) , in guerilla warfare you got almost no visibility. Irl you can't do mortar on your own . Irl we don't have "god vision" when we can seen everything , on the ground you're almost clueless, and without forward team you basically blind ,and without assist you're just a guy with a tube . And being exposed in the open is a stupid for a mortar species .
Crap , I hope they've come up with better ways to get a lock on a target since this video came out , by the time you get a bearing on something they're gone , my damn grandmother could walk outta range by the time you find her and figure out the settings 😂
Had to correct one trainee twice and waste another 2 hours in training one man on how to use mortar in ArmA properly... Good video, but outdated and ONLY applies when: - Your mortar is on flat surface [like airfield]. - Target is close and terrain is almost flat. In case if you set it up somewhere when terrain is not flat, then you miss. In order to correct it, you need to use the AZ: [number in mils] Luckily the barrel AZ is being outputted just under weapon info bar in almost every artillery [RHS - I am looking at you right now...]. In order to get mills to the target, you either use a calculator, online converter, or mod such as simple map tools. ACE advanced ballistics: For wind - clan leader decided to turn it off for mortar, because it made shelling targets impossible, because it used to bug out and hit once 2km away, or 1 km off in different direction [good thing we had smoke then, we hit friendlies. two series on the same coordinates...]. You know when you properly trained people, when they hit small squad sized target far away, on uneven terrain. Always telling them to do 3 shoots, to get estimate on where they were shooting [only laser guided, or rocket modern artillery hit exactly where you aim]. I can show how to use mortar with ace correctly, if anybody is interested and maybe wants to make a instructional video about that.
Is nobody pointing out that on the map tools, the guy used the grid finder as his ruler, instead of literally using the ruler on the side of the tools. This a partly in correct guide. Once you've got your azimuth by doing the first part correctly (rotating your tools with the dot on your location), then put the 0 marker on the side of the map tools on your location and follow through to your target, that's your range, not how shown in the video.
Okay everyone, lesson time. Western militaries in most applications use mils, so a full circle is 6400mills. which means 1 mil off at 1km is 1 meter of displacement. You can see on both the compass and map tools it has mills AND degrees. Be careful of this (military aviation will still use degrees). So in this example he's talking about 26.2, its actually 2620 mils.
@@harosokman yeah I should have looked it up, I watched an artillery vid on how to aim them after commenting and saw the Milliradian circle thing, I guess they are still millimetres though, just on a radius instead of a lined rule.
I dont know what calculations you are doing with your compass but theyre off, super off. If you use the 25k map scale your compass on a 25k map the distance should be the same as the grid. I.e. if you put the scale on p1 and t1 and it shows 4 the range will be ~400 meters. Then you can check the ballistic table for mils and no of charges and you should be good to go. Usually i get an error of 50 meters and even then i dont di any corrections because its not really neccessary
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I'm a mortarman. My friends actually used Arma to do FDC (Fire Direction Center/Control) once. Plotted the points and measured the distance and such and forward observed our own rounds.
I can confirm this. What I did at Fort Moore. Our drills took us for a day to go to virtual training. Exactly what’s going on in the video. It was neat but never will be the same as the real deal.
The map tool.. In otherwords..a compass lol I own a compass that looks almost exactly like that Except mine isn’t that big and square lol the compass round part is rotatable and it has all those numbers and such too..lol
I guess this is some video game. Unfortunately it is not even a simulation of how mortars are actually aimed. Not even close. I was an artilleryman, and mortar operation is similar. You must live in some alternate reality.
