Broken Arrow – Artillery and Laser Guidance Guide

Guide to Artillery and Laser Guidance

Artillery

To order an artillery strike you need to click the fire mission button in the action panel.

It opens an interface where you can choose the parameters of the strike:

• Type of munitions: default / smoke / laser guided
• Duration : Short / Medium / Long
• Mode: Point target / Line / Creeping barrage

Note: Be careful, HIMARS use laser guided rockets but in the beta invalid types of munition are not grayed out so if you validate the fire mission with regular ammunition selected nothing happens.

Laser Guidance

Some units like snipers are equipped with target designators and some munitions can be laser guided.

Designate a target with the laser and any projectile detecting the laser mark with its seeker will lock onto it and autonomously track this target.

When a projectile locks onto a laser mark a red line appears between the projectile and the target.

Example of laser guided projectiles:

• Hellfire missiles (Cobra/viper helicopters)
• PrSM ballistic missile (HIMARS)
• Mortars and howitzers generally carry a few laser guided rounds
• Smart bombs.