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There's been a change in beahviour for the SPEAR EW (weapon #3690) in the latest database and I don't know if it's fully intended.

Previously when using the weapon you could only fire it as a BOL and then manually control it if necessary.

Now when loaded and in flight the weapon will automatically fire at aerial targets - and there doesn't seem to be any way to prevent it.

The SPEAR EW is listed in the database as being able to target surface ships and land facilities only, it can't target aircraft, so therefore there is no option in the Doctrine/WRA box to prevent it auto launching at aircraft. This doesn't seem right?

In addition if you open the Manual Engage Target box you CANNOT target ships or land facilities with it, but you CAN target aircraft - this seems to be the opposite of what the database inplies.

Its a bit of a pain when you have a SPEAR EW equipped aircraft intended to provide support for a long range strike and it auto fires all its weapons at the first aerial targets it sees without you being able to prevent it?

Seems like a DB issue. You can report issues on db here: https://github.com/PygmalionOfCyprus/cmo-db-requests

Thanks for the reply, I've already reported it there and PygmalionOfCyprus told me to report it here as a bug - its database entry is correct but ita doing things the database says it shouldn't?

Broccy wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:51 am Thanks for the reply, I've already reported it there and PygmalionOfCyprus told me to report it here as a bug - its database entry is correct but ita doing things the database says it shouldn't?

Oh sorry, then let the devs fix the behavior .

Apologies, forgot to include a save file - I just set up a really simple scenario to demonstrate it.

The Northern Blue side F-35 is assigned to an air intercept mission. It will detect the Red side AEW aircraft and approach it before launching SPEAR EW missiles at it. There is no way to prevent this as there is no option for aircraft in the SPEAR EW WRA menu. If you try to manually attack the Red side air you will be given the option to fire SPEAR EW weapons - even though the database says the SPEAR EW cannot target aircraft.

The Southern Blue Side F-35 cannot even be assigned to the Surface strike mission against the Red side intelligence ship as it has no suitable weapons. If you try to manually attack the ship you will be given no option to fire anything - despite the database saying SPEAR EW weapons can target surface ships.

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