Originally posted by Breadfan
I noticed when in CCIP mode, u can actually mark a spot on ground to be targeted and as long u hold your FIRE button it'll trmain marked untill your next attack run. It looks to me very simillar to laser targeting but as we all now MIG-29A & S version don't have this abbility, so seeing it in LOMAC makes me wonder, is this just an extra feature added just to make bombing more interesting or it's possible for real-life Fulcrum pilots to mark the spot on ground and keep it on the HUD even after flying opposite direction from target?
You don't need to have an onboard laser designator for this. In theory, FCC can simply retrieve the coordinates of the spot under the pipper from inertial navigation system and then display it's location on HUD werever you fly. Of course, the longer you fly after marking a spot, the less precise this indication will be, as INS accumulates error with time.