Do they have lock on systems or what
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There’s two general types of air-to-ground weapons systems, guided and unguided.
The guided system is relatively easy for the pilot – your weapons operator or someone on the ground is “painting” the target with some sort of guidance coordinates and the missile/bomb will steer into it.
Just pull the trigger and gtfo, you don’t even need to see the target or slow down, and they won’t know what hit them.
Then you have unguided weapons for “close air support”. These are your Su-25 rocket pods and A-10 Gatling cannons, weapons that you put on a much lower and slower plane to get right in the face of a ground target and blast the fuck out of it.
This is much more dangerous for the aircraft and crew since you’re getting down low where manpads and AA guns can get you, but you can also do a lot more damage for a lot less money that way – and visually confirm that you’re shooting at a tank and not a dummy IR flare.
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