How to change Missile fly profile

[Russellsea]

I find soviet missile like P700 doesnt have a fly profile，it just fly low since being launched. They should fly high alt to gain fast speed and decline when approaching target. Are there any solution to it? I think it is not a hard problem to solve since SAM and AAM have profile.

[Dimitris]

I find soviet missile like P700 doesnt have a fly profile，it just fly low since being launched. They should fly high alt to gain fast speed and decline when approaching target.

Our research indicates that this missile does indeed fly a constant sea-skimming profile. Do you have any sources that suggest otherwise?

[boogabooga]

I find soviet missile like P700 doesnt have a fly profile，it just fly low since being launched. They should fly high alt to gain fast speed and decline when approaching target.

Our research indicates that this missile does indeed fly a constant sea-skimming profile. Do you have any sources that suggest otherwise?

You mean "It does it in Sea Power" does not count?

[thewood1]

Sea Power is the new DCS.

[Fido81]

I found a source from TRADOC that supports the "swarm" flight profile https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/WEG/Asset/ ... se_Missile. It does note that most of the missiles aren't flying at high altitude - only 1 per swarm.

At the same time, I can't help but keep in mind that CMO is meant to be an operational simulator/game and not a tactical one, so precise emulation of every unit's attack profile is probably neither possible nor actually desirable. As a civilian hobbyist, I'd argue accuracy on the overwhelming majority of the swarm (> 75%) is good enough here, and CMO does provide that.

Furthermore, eliminating the possibility of a high-altitude profile actually makes the missile easier to defend against (not that the dev team cares a bit about "balance", as they've said multiple times, but as a scenario creator/player who prefers fun and winnable scenarios, I do).

Happy new year!

[thewood1]

I have used this doc for references to Soviet/Russian AShMs. I downloaded it a long time ago and it took me a while find it again.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120205005 ... ssiles.pdf