The War Zone article on an EW XQ-58 (and others)

[Craigkn]

Article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/m ... s-for-f-35

Quite a few interesting ideas from this article, particularly in ways to leverage the in-game XQ-58 to model near future conflicts. Loadouts with OECM pods, MALD-J, and AARGMs? I am also eager to have a UCAV that can carry AIM-120D.

[DWReese]

Thanks for providing the story.

This is a really big story, and could lead to numerous changes in aerial warfare.

CMO has the XQ-58 (which is the standard USAF strike version), and the XQ-222 (which is the USN's multi-purpose strike version and an OECM platform).

Here is a similar article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marine-xq-58 ... 46335.html

[thewood1]

I would think that the Navy is most interested the 58 and its ilk because of the runway independence. It would be a significant augment for the Marine's MLR concept its deploying. In fact, it fills a few gaps in the MLR that the Navy would otherwise have to fill.

[tylerblakebrandon]

Article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/m ... s-for-f-35

Quite a few interesting ideas from this article, particularly in ways to leverage the in-game XQ-58 to model near future conflicts. Loadouts with OECM pods, MALD-J, and AARGMs? I am also eager to have a UCAV that can carry AIM-120D.

CMO has many options already to play with these concepts.

The Have Raider can carry the A-120D and the AIM-260 in SIM.
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4773/

And the MIUS can carry the AIM-120C-7
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/5703/

The Ghost Bat has various sensor loads including OECM.
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/5487/

On the Red side there is the S-70
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4906/

And both the Navy and AF version are labeled XQ-58 now in the DB.
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/5186/
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4774/

And there are armed versions of the X-47B and MQ-25
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/3169/
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4916/

Plus various other high end UCAV platforms like Sharp Sword and nEUROn
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4963/
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/3900/

[Craigkn]

Article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/m ... s-for-f-35

Quite a few interesting ideas from this article, particularly in ways to leverage the in-game XQ-58 to model near future conflicts. Loadouts with OECM pods, MALD-J, and AARGMs? I am also eager to have a UCAV that can carry AIM-120D.

CMO has many options already to play with these concepts.

The Have Raider can carry the A-120D and the AIM-260 in SIM.
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4773/

And the MIUS can carry the AIM-120C-7
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/5703/

The Ghost Bat has various sensor loads including OECM.
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/5487/

On the Red side there is the S-70
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4906/

And both the Navy and AF version are labeled XQ-58 now in the DB.
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/5186/
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4774/

And there are armed versions of the X-47B and MQ-25
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/3169/
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4916/

Plus various other high end UCAV platforms like Sharp Sword and nEUROn
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/4963/
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/3900/

Thank you - I took a few months off from the game and missed some of this. Really hoping for a UCAV that is carrier capable and can carry AAM's, but this is a huge expansion of options!

My only issue (again I could be dumb and this has changed) is that you cant mix airframes in a flight, so the player would need a bit of micro to simulate a single F-35 (or whatever) controlling a flight of UCAV's.

[Kushan04]

My only issue (again I could be dumb and this has changed) is that you cant mix airframes in a flight, so the player would need a bit of micro to simulate a single F-35 (or whatever) controlling a flight of UCAV's.

Yes you can.

[Craigkn]

My only issue (again I could be dumb and this has changed) is that you cant mix airframes in a flight, so the player would need a bit of micro to simulate a single F-35 (or whatever) controlling a flight of UCAV's.

Yes you can.

Beautiful - thank you. Time to play around with loyal wingmen!

[AlexinCT]

How are you grouping these different platforms? Just trying to launch them as a group or grouping different aircraft in flight didn't work.

[Nikel]

Not familiar with his stuff, but it works in 1307.14, Kushan is running a not released to the public version, 1307.16

Selected 2 different aircraft in the same base, and then launch as group.

Once in the air, unit orders, group operations, group selected units.

In the confirmation window select no.

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[AlexinCT]

Just figured that out. Thank you however for confirming.

I want to mention that I posted my ask because I had launched a couple of F-35s and a couple of UAVs and my original issue was that I tried to group of UAVs to the F-35 group that was already formed at launch, and that would not work. I just tested that If I ungroup them and then regroup all the aircraft I can successfully combine them. Hopefully in the future I can launch them grouped.

This is still an awesome thing to be able to do!

This game rocks.

[Craigkn]

I am mostly interested in how I can write this into a scenario - maybe China gets frisky and wants to try loyal wingman concepts in a Taiwanese strait scenario. Micromanagement does not work if you are programming the AI to do things.

What I hope for is the ability to disperse UCAV's out 20-30 nm from the controlling aircraft, and use CEC to guide in missles. So far I have only had successful CEC using E-2D's and USN airframes with AIM-120D or AIM-260's.