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AGM-65 Maverick

The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-ground missile (AGM) designed for close air support. It is the most widely produced precision-guided missile in the Western world, and is effective against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor, air defenses, ships, ground transportation and fuel storage facilities.

Development began in 1966 at Hughes Aircraft Company as the first missile to use an electronic contrast seeker. It entered service with the United States Air Force in August 1972. Since then, it has been exported to more than 30 countries and is certified on 25 aircraft. The Maverick served during the Vietnam, Yom Kippur, Iran–Iraq, and Persian Gulf Wars, along with other smaller conflicts, destroying enemy forces and installations with varying degrees of success.

Since its introduction into service, numerous Maverick versions had been designed and produced using electro-optical, laser, and imaging infrared guidance systems. The AGM-65 has two types of warhead: one has a contact fuze in the nose, the other has a heavyweight warhead fitted with a delayed-action fuze, which penetrates the target with its kinetic energy before detonating. The missile is currently produced by Raytheon Missiles & Defense.

The Maverick shares the same configuration as Hughes' AIM-4 Falcon and AIM-54 Phoenix, and measures more than 7.9 ft (2.4 m) in length and 12 in (30 cm) in diameter.

We have two versions in the pack.

  • Maverick E uses a laser designator guidance system optimized for fortified installations using a delayed fuse combined with a heavier penetrating blast-fragmentation warhead (140 kg (300 lb) vs. 57 kg (125 lb) in older models) that perforates a target with its kinetic energy before detonation. It achieved initial operating capability in 1985 and was used mainly by USMC aviation.
  • Maverick F, designed specially for United States Navy, it uses a modified Maverick D infrared guidance system optimized for tracking ships fitted onto a Maverick-E body and warhead.

Quicklook: AGM-65E Guidence

PLEASE NOTE: This is just for Arma3. The game engine doesn't natively support all the Target and Guidence options in the real world so we have to compromise. This means twisting the various real-world options to fit

Fire and Forget NO locktype = 0 Fire and Forget
Beam Rider YES locktype = 1 Beam riding
Manual NO locktype = 2 Manual control like TV Guided or SACLOS
Laser YES LaserLock = 1 Laser Guidence and beam-riding
InfraRed NO irLock = 1 IR Guidence
Radar NO Defined in components Radar Guided/Homing
DataLink/GPS/INS NO Defined in components Tactical Data Link
Range Min 500 Calculated In-game relative range
Range Max 8000 Calculated In-game relative range

Classnames: AGM-65E

WPN Class rksla3_wpn_agm65e Mass
Mag Class name rksla3_mag_agm65e_lau117_x1 Hardpoint RKSLA3_AGM65_LAU117 359.7
Ammo Class rksla3_ammo_agm65e 293
submunitionAmmo NONE N/A

Quicklook: AGM-65F Guidence

PLEASE NOTE: This is just for Arma3. The game engine doesn't natively support all the Target and Guidence options in the real world so we have to compromise. This means twisting the various real-world options to fit

Fire and Forget NO locktype = 0 Fire and Forget
Beam Rider YES locktype = 1 Beam riding
Manual NO locktype = 2 Manual control like TV Guided or SACLOS
Laser NO LaserLock = 1 Laser Guidence and beam-riding
InfraRed YES irLock = 1 IR Guidence
Radar NO Defined in components Radar Guided/Homing
DataLink/GPS/INS NO Defined in components Tactical Data Link
Range Min 500 Calculated In-game relative range
Range Max 8000 Calculated In-game relative range

Classnames: AGM-65F

WPN Class rksla3_wpn_agm65f Mass
Mag Class name rksla3_mag_agm65f_lau117_x1 Hardpoint RKSLA3_AGM65_LAU117 372.7
Ammo Class rksla3_ammo_agm65f 306
submunitionAmmo NONE N/A
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