Detection?

[darknite]

Does the Programmed Opponent ever lose detection of a unit once gained? It just seems like I can't shake their absolute knowledge even if the original sensing unit has been destroyed. Case and point - I had a Reaper UAV detected as it closed in on an airbase. The airbase was destroyed not too long afterward but a/c from other bases continued to vector in toward the Reaper even though it's radar was off and was well out of detection range of enemy radars.

DN

[hermanhum]

Unlike the AI for ANW, I'm pretty sure that the HCE AI doesn't "cheat". When a player loses contact of an AI unit, the contact starts to fade out and the zone of uncertainty increases as time progresses.

I am pretty certain that the AI is vectoring interception assets to the last known location of your Predator. Those planes aren't very fast so the interceptors are probably re-establishing contact before the AI loses total track of your previous direction.

I've had plenty of instances whereby the AI loses track of my assets. I often dive to low altitude to get below the radar horizon and run as fast as possible to get away from the last datum point the AI has for me.

[darknite]

Herman - I've had similar experiences.  However in this one the Predator was later (had moved nearly 200 nm) fired on by F/A-18s whose radar was being jammed at a range of over 30 nm (both AIM-120s missed).  I'm mystified how they were able to track and fire on it...

DN

[TonyE]

The HCE AI indeed does not retain knowledge of detection once the uncertainty zone disappears. We don't know how effectively the jamming was nor which model F/A-18, and so on and so forth. (I n other words, feel free to compile an example scenario with minimal number of units and we'll take a look) The AI doesn't have to have an exact detection to fire missiles, occasionally I use that tactic myself, fire on the target before it is exactly localized and hope the missile seeker sorts out the situation.

[darknite]

I'm convinced then. Thanks everyone!

DN