Countermeasures – Arma 3

Overview

Countermeasures, detection of locking, tracking and missiles in flight.

Mechanics

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Ground vehicles with Incoming Missile Detection ability use the same SENS display as air vehicles to display threats. See the Custom Panels page for details.

	Player's vehicle is being locked by an enemy	ammo weaponLockSystem matches vehicle lockDetectionSystem
	A guided munition is homing on the player's vehicle	ammo weaponLockSystem matches vehicle incomingMissileDetectionSystem

Configuration

The following properties of Ammo, Weapon and Vehicle can use basically any bitmask value (See also BIS_fnc_bitflagsCheck).

BI uses the following convention

	ammo	ammo (countermeasure)	weapon	vehicle
System	weaponLockSystem	weaponLockSystem	weaponLockSystem	lockDetectionSystem	incomingMissileDetectionSystem
0 - N/A	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
1 - Visual	✓	✓	✓	X	X
2 - IR	✓	✓	✓	X	X
4 - Laser	✓	✓	✓	✓	X
8 - Radar	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
16 - Missile	✓	X	X	X	✓

Related

• CfgAmmo
• CfgWeapons
• CfgVehicles
• Arma 3: Sensors
• Arma 3 Targeting
• A3 Targeting config reference
• Sensor Overhaul thread
• Targeting thread