Talk:Stand-Off Dispenser/@comment-33064628-20190326105404

Anyone find this weapon to be difficult to use, and near-useless against CIWS-protected ships and installations in Ace Combat 7? I mean, like, OK, if it is actually a stand-off weapon, then they should give it a lock-on range of an unmodified LAGM, hell, even 80% of that is fine. No, you have to get in pretty close, about the same as an extended lock-on range 4AGM. Not to mention the weapon's operation (diving down for a while before slowly flying straight to the location the target at the moment the SOD is launched - the weapon will not track and follow the target if it's moving, then discharge the bomblets when it's about to reach the target) makes it a near-perfect target for CIWS. But, like I mentioned above, you don't get to fire the weapon at the range where the CIWS wouldn't have enough time to detect/intercept. To me, this weapon is a hilarious performer. Mediocre for general-purpose usage, but once things has to be dealt with quickly and efficiently, other more suitable options are always on the table. SFFS if you want cluster munitions, LAGM/LASM/LACM for true stand-off usage, 4AGM/8AGM for scattered targets, UGB/GPB for the blast radius, and XSDB for scattered targets as well as a decent blast radius per bomb.