Analogue Voodoo Magic?! DCS F-4E Phantom II Pave Spike & LGB Tutorial!

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In today's video we are going to be Demystifying the AN/AVQ-23 Pave Spike Pod and self guiding laser guided bombs into a target in the DCS F-4E Phantom II!

I have seen a lot of people in the community say that using Laser Guided Bombs with the Pave Spike Pod on the F-4E is some sort of Rocket Surgery or analogue voodoo magic, but today’s video is all about trying to show you guys how simple and easy it can be to Shack a target with the AVQ-23!

Setting proper expectations of the capabilities of the Pave Spike Pod is absolutely essential to alleviate a lot of the frustrations I have been seeing people have with the system. The Pave Spike was only the second widely used Targeting Pod ever produced, and as such comes with the same limitations you would expect of early 1970’s technology. It should also be noted that Laser Guided and TV Guided Munitions were initially developed to destroy large, hardened and mostly stationary, known targets, such as the Dragon’s Jaw or Paul Domer Bridges, Power plants, Soviet Command and Control Bunkers as well as Soviet Warships.

So if your mission is to go Truck or Tank plinking, bring a triple rack of AGM-65 Mavericks… but if you absolutely need to take down a bridge across the Red River… A Pave Spike and a GBU-10 is your go-to.

Pave Spike and Self Lasing Skills and Capabilities are extremely important for the DCS Cold War pilot because for most nations around the world, the F-4E Phantom II was the only aircraft capable of delivering precision guided warheads on foreheads throughout the 1970’s and well into the 1980’s, with Pave Spike Pods still in use on Turkish F-4E Phantom II’s today!

0:00:00 - Intro to the AN/AVQ-23 Pave Spike
0:02:20 - Pave Spike Keybinds
0:04:05 - F-4E Cockpit Set Up
0:06:52 - Employing LGB's & Pavespike

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Analogue Voodoo Magic?! DCS F-4E Phantom II Pave Spike & LGB Tutorial!