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Originally Posted by Pursuivant
Has searchlight behavior been improved?
Those searchlights in the U-2 night ops track are absolutely blinding if you look into them, and seem to track enemy planes once they detect them. AAA also seems to concentrate on enemy aircraft illuminated by searchlights.
(If so, searchlight behavior could be improved even more if 1-3 adjacent searchlights were to "lock on" to the same aircraft once one searchlight detects it, to make it harder for the plane to escape from the lights by taking evasive action. This was doctrine used by most nations during WW2.)
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Searchlights were doing that since their first appearence in the FB. Same for AA accurtacy with searchlights.