How do ASMs work?

[sallinkari]

I came back in large part because missiles were added and I was curious. SAMs were straight forward even if I'm not entirely clear why they have to be centerline mounted, but I was surprised to see that there were no ship mounted ASMs, only air launched. But that is all I found out. What carries them? Are they like torpedoes where the airplane requires to be designed to carry them? How do they function differently then bombs?

Part of this is that I'm not sure I've ever seen them used. If they can only be carried by medium bombers, which is my current suspicion, the problem is that since you can't control land based aircraft, they don't usually do much in my experience, so the tech is fundamentally flawed, since the only time I've really seen land based aircraft actually decide to engage significantly are in big fleet battles that start in the early hours of the day during summer months so the airbases have hours to send out recons plans, recover them, then launch some strike aircraft. As most of my encounters seem to be in the afternoon where there is only a few hours before dusk, or with the weather permanently grounding all planes, they almost never play a more significant role then possible generating a report before my ship-based recon planes do.

[stevethecat]

No ASMs yet, the missile part of the update wasn't that in depth. You can activate the technology via tweaking the tech files though.

[orlunu]

SAM - Surface to Air Missile
ASM - Air to Surface Missile
SSM - Surface to Surface Missile

SAMs and ASMs are currently in game. As is, the missile update revoles around sea/air interaction. SSMs are not implemented, but working code for them is in the files and can be activated, it's just not in a state the devs deemed ready for release yet - consensus is that they're actually modelled pretty well given this, just the damage model is wonky. I'm afraid I can't offer much information on the ASMs in game at the moment, I haven't played much with this patch yet.

[Enderminion]

Jul 2, 2020 6:33:22 GMT -6 stevethecat said:

No ASMs yet, the missile part of the update wasn't that in depth. You can activate the technology via tweaking the tech files though.

ASM means Air to Surface Missile, which are carried by Medium Bombers.

[kotori87]

I recently researched the early ASM technology. I see that ASMs are carried by Medium Bombers, but does the MB need any particular ability (like torpedo payload, etc) to deploy the missile, or will the MB I already have do the trick?

[landcrab]

Sept 23, 2020 17:26:09 GMT -6 kotori87 said:

I recently researched the early ASM technology. I see that ASMs are carried by Medium Bombers, but does the MB need any particular ability (like torpedo payload, etc) to deploy the missile, or will the MB I already have do the trick?

I am also wondering about the same but instead of creating new thread, I am choosing to bump this one up.

[wlbjork]

As far as I know, the system is represented in game by increased accuracy/range glide bomb attacks from medium bombers.

There may be a minimum payload requirement in order to deploy such a system.