[FIXED][1706] ASCM ON - AS missiles launched from A/Cs treated as ground launches

[Knightpawn]

With ASCM ON, if an aircraft is flying over land (it can be next to the shore) and launches a terrain following antiship missile, the game acts as if the missile is launched from ground and considers terrain level as ground obstacle, essentially disregarding that there is a path from the A/C until the missile becomes sea skimming where AGL altitude should be irrelevant in the calculations.

Try and launch a Harpoon from the Orions 14 nm west of Arsenal of Cartagena (Spain), while still over land terrain in the attached file

ASCM bug.zip

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[Dimitris]

Confirmed. Interesting catch, thanks.

[Dimitris]

Fixed for the next update.

As part of the pre-fire checklist, crash-eligible ASCMs now perform a full DLZ-style simulated flyout, which includes terrain elevation checks. If their predicted trajectory clears them of terrain obstacles (as in this case), they can be fired.