User Guide

LONGBOW 2

2.28

Priority Fire Zones (PFZs)

It is useful to select certain zones as target priorities. These zones let you fire up

to 16 Hellfire missiles (your entire bank) one after the other. Each missile tracks

a single target, allowing you to simultaneously engage 16 targets.

By creating a PFZ, you instruct your targeting system to acquire targets in this

area first. You can trade PFZ information with your wingman, or assign your

wingman to different areas (see Wingman Commands, p. 5.24).

Right-click-and-drag on the TSD MFD display to create a Priority Fire Zone. This draws a

green box around the designated zone and gives it a label (such as PF0).

When you create a PFZ, the active targeting system loses its current locks and acquires

up to 16 targets within this area instead. Missiles launched into PFZs attack the locked

target first.

If a missile’s target is destroyed before it reaches its target, the missile shifts to another

target within the zone. If all targets have a missile tracking them, then missiles begin dou-

bling up on targets. (See Priority Fire Zones, p. 5.11, for detailed information.)

Add targets to your PFZ target list by pressing

and left-clicking on the target you

want to add. This is useful when new threats move inside your PFZ. You can use this key

to tell Hellfire missiles which targets to strike first — it moves them to the top of the target

list.

Q / sQ

Select next/previous PFZ

Alternatively, left-click (

) on a PFZ label to select it.

, then

Delete a PFZ by left-click-and-holding on the label, then right-clicking.

Delete currently selected PFZ

Delete all PFZs

PFZs and Hellfire Missiles

PFZs are useful if you’re using radio-frequency (RF) Hellfire missiles in LOAL

missile launch mode. You can bob-up, acquire targets with FCR target acquisi-

tion active, and then descend to safety. The FCR system “memorizes” the

objects it detects – so you don’t have to have them in view when you fire. Then,

you can make a PFZ and assign it to your wingman, and make a second one for

yourself.

Once you launch an RF Hellfire, it heads toward the currently selected PFZ and

selects targets based on the FCR’s target list. If the primary target gets

destroyed before the missile arrives, it simply moves on to the next target in the

list. All you have to do is rapidly fire off as many missiles as you have targets.

Time to impact appears in the High-Action Display.)

See Engaging Targets with Hellfires, p. 5.18, for specific details.