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Target types

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The flags
Flag 2 and anti-tank rounds
Helicopters and planes
How the site shows anti-air tags
What the duel does with them

A round in Broken Arrow carries a TargetType number that, by the game's own flag names, says what it may engage: ground targets, vehicles, helicopters, planes, ships or incoming munitions. From the game's data This site reads its anti-air tags from that number, and the duel uses it to decide what each round may fire at. Worked out by this site

The flags

TargetType is a sum of flags. From the game's data The names below are the game's own, except flag 2: "Infantry" is this site's reading of it, explained in the next section. From the game's data

Flag	Name
1	Ground
2	Infantry (our reading)
4	Vehicle
8	Helicopter
16	Aircraft
32	Ship
128	Projectile
256	Anti-radar (SEAD) missile
512	Cruise missile
1024	Ballistic missile

To read a number, split it into flags. Rifles and machine guns carry 47. From the game's data That is 32 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1: Ship, Helicopter, Vehicle, flag 2 and Ground. Worked out by this site

That the game holds each round to its flags is read from the flag names, not confirmed in the game's code. From the game's data

Flag 2 and anti-tank rounds

In the data, flag 2 separates rounds meant for squads from rounds meant for armour: From the game's data

Weapon	TargetType	Flag 2
Rifles and machine guns: M16A4, M27 IAR, M249, AK-74M, PKP	47	Set
Grenade launchers: M320, GP-34, AGS-17	39	Set
Light anti-tank: AT4CS-RS	45	Clear
Guided anti-tank: TOW-2A, Javelin	36	Clear
Anti-air: Igla-S	24	Clear

45 is 47 with exactly flag 2 removed. Worked out by this site The RPG-7V and the SMAW each carry two rounds, one at 45 and one at 47: an anti-tank round and an anti-personnel one, split by precisely this flag. From the game's data

That pattern is why this site reads flag 2 as Infantry. It is an inference from the data, not a name the game publishes. Not known: our best reading

In the duel, a round may fire at a squad only if it carries flag 2. Worked out by this site Before that rule, six AT4s were taking 51 health off a 65-health squad inside one second, so an infantry fight lasted two seconds instead of twenty. Worked out by this site

Only this direction is checked. In the duel a rifle needs no rule against a tank, because against the tank's armour its penetration already reduces its damage to nothing. Worked out by this site A round that declares no target type at all is allowed to fire rather than silently dropped. Worked out by this site

Helicopters and planes

To engage a helicopter a round needs flag 8, Helicopter. To engage a plane it needs flag 16, Aircraft. From the game's data Rifles and machine guns (47) carry the Helicopter flag; a tank's HEAT round (39) does not. From the game's data

Sixteen anti-air missiles carry 1936 and no Helicopter flag: From the game's data

the S-300's and S-400's: 40N6, 48N6, 48N6P-01, 9M82MD, 9M83M, 9M96 and 9M96M;
the Buk's: 9M317 and 9M317M;
the Patriot's: MIM-104E, MIM-104F and F MSE;
SM-6, ESSM (RIM-162), IRIS-T SLM and the ground AMRAAM-ER.

1936 is Aircraft plus the four munition flags: Projectile, Anti-radar missile, Cruise missile and Ballistic missile. Worked out by this site By their flags, these missiles cannot engage helicopters. From the game's data Eight missiles carry 1944, among them the Pantsir's, the Tor's and the ground AMRAAM's, so they can. From the game's data 1944 is 1936 plus the Helicopter flag. Worked out by this site None of this has been tested in the game. Not known: our best reading

Units that carry an anti-air missile without the helicopter flag:

Units whose anti-air missiles lack the helicopter flag (34)

How the site shows anti-air tags

Weapon tables show anti-air tags read from the rounds' TargetType: Worked out by this site

Anti-air targets: it can engage helicopters.
Anti-air targets: it can engage planes.
Anti-air targets: it can shoot down incoming munitions, of the four kinds the game's flags name: projectiles, anti-radar missiles, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.

The S-300, S-400 and Patriot missiles show no Helicopters tag, because their rounds carry no helicopter flag. Worked out by this site

Every anti-air missile in the current data, with what it can engage, its ranges and its seeker:

Missile	Helicopters	Aircraft	Munitions	Low-altitude range	High-altitude range	Seeker
40N6	No	Yes	Yes	2600 m	2600 m	Terminal guidance
48N6	No	Yes	Yes	2350 m	2350 m	Semi-active
48N6P-01	No	Yes	Yes	2500 m	2500 m	Semi-active
57Eh6E	Yes	Yes	Yes	2400 m	2400 m	Semi-active
57Eh6E	Yes	Yes	Yes	2400 m	2400 m	Semi-active
9M311	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	1000 m	Semi-active
9M311-1M	Yes	Yes	Yes	2100 m	1350 m	Semi-active
9M317	No	Yes	Yes	1850 m	1850 m	Semi-active
9M317M	No	Yes	Yes	1950 m	1950 m	Terminal guidance
9M331	Yes	Yes	Yes	2200 m	1350 m	Semi-active
9M333	Yes	Yes	No	1800 m	1000 m	Fire-and-forget
9M338	Yes	Yes	Yes	2200 m	1800 m	Semi-active
9M33M3	Yes	Yes	No	2100 m	1350 m	Semi-active
9M33M3	Yes	Yes	Yes	2200 m	1350 m	Semi-active
9M340	Yes	Yes	No	2400 m	1350 m	Semi-active
9M82MD	No	Yes	Yes	2600 m	2600 m	Semi-active
9M83M	No	Yes	Yes	2350 m	2350 m	Semi-active
9M96	No	Yes	Yes	1950 m	1950 m	Terminal guidance
9M96M	No	Yes	Yes	2200 m	2200 m	Terminal guidance
AGM-114M Hellfire	Yes	No	No	2000 m	—	Terminal guidance
AIM-174	No	Yes	No	9000 m	9000 m	Terminal guidance
AIM-260	No	Yes	No	9000 m	9000 m	Terminal guidance
AIM-7M	No	Yes	No	5000 m	5000 m	Semi-active
AIM-9	Yes	Yes	No	2100 m	1550 m	Fire-and-forget
AIM-9	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	2000 m	Fire-and-forget
AIM-9	Yes	Yes	Yes	2100 m	1550 m	Fire-and-forget
AIM-92 Stinger	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	1500 m	Fire-and-forget
AMRAAM	No	Yes	No	7000 m	7000 m	Terminal guidance
AMRAAM	Yes	Yes	Yes	2200 m	1800 m	Terminal guidance
AMRAAM-ER	No	Yes	Yes	1850 m	1850 m	Terminal guidance
APKWS	Yes	Yes	No	1300 m	—	Semi-active
FIM-92F Stinger	Yes	Yes	No	1800 m	1000 m	Fire-and-forget
FIM-92J Stinger	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	1000 m	Fire-and-forget
FIM-92K Stinger	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	1000 m	Fire-and-forget
Grom	Yes	Yes	No	1800 m	1350 m	Fire-and-forget
Igla-N	Yes	Yes	No	1700 m	1000 m	Fire-and-forget
Igla-S	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	1000 m	Fire-and-forget
IRIS-T SLM	No	Yes	Yes	1800 m	1800 m	Terminal guidance
MIM-104E GEM+	No	Yes	Yes	2350 m	2350 m	Semi-active
MIM-104F	No	Yes	Yes	1950 m	1950 m	Terminal guidance
MIM-104F MSE	No	Yes	Yes	2200 m	2200 m	Terminal guidance
Mistral-3	Yes	Yes	No	2200 m	1350 m	Fire-and-forget
Piorun	Yes	Yes	No	2100 m	1000 m	Fire-and-forget
R-27ER	No	Yes	No	5000 m	5000 m	Semi-active
R-27ET	No	Yes	No	3000 m	3000 m	Fire-and-forget
R-27T	No	Yes	No	2500 m	2500 m	Fire-and-forget
R-37	No	Yes	No	9000 m	9000 m	Terminal guidance
R-37	No	Yes	No	9000 m	9000 m	Terminal guidance
R-60	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	1500 m	Fire-and-forget
R-60	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	2000 m	Fire-and-forget
R-73	Yes	Yes	No	2000 m	2000 m	Fire-and-forget
R-73	Yes	Yes	No	2100 m	1550 m	Fire-and-forget
R-77-1	No	Yes	No	7000 m	7000 m	Terminal guidance
R-77-1	No	Yes	No	7000 m	7000 m	Terminal guidance
RBS 70 Bolid	Yes	Yes	No	2200 m	1350 m	Semi-active
RIM-116	Yes	Yes	Yes	2100 m	1350 m	Fire-and-forget
Verba	Yes	Yes	No	2100 m	1000 m	Fire-and-forget

What the duel does with them

The duel follows the flags, and labels these rules as this site's model rather than the game's: Worked out by this site

a round fires at a squad only with flag 2, at a helicopter only with Helicopter, and at a plane only with Aircraft;
it reaches a helicopter through its Low-altitude range range, and a plane through the longer of its Low-altitude range and High-altitude range ranges;
a weapon whose rounds have a ground range of 0 is reported as anti-air only.

A round with a ground range of 0 cannot engage ground targets at all; the 0 is not "no limit". From the game's data The duel has no altitude, so which air range it uses is its own choice. Worked out by this site Without one, no anti-air missile could fire at an aircraft at all. Worked out by this site

For how a missile that is allowed to fire then decides to hit, see missile hit chance. For how it flies, see how a missile flies.