bsq wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:29 pm
Indeed but its all about not losing lives doing it.
Best to date:
Confuse the radars with several AGM-160C's
Then a large enough strike of missiles whilst the radars are being jammed or decoyed.
Best weapons so far seem to be
109Ds - only need 2 or 3 to completely take out the site, so a wave of 24 to 36 plus MALD's will do it.
109Es - need more to destroy the site but I think this is a bug
109Fs - flys lower, picked up later but still need many to get all components
158Bs - stealthy (but seems to make little difference in game as they are picked up at the same range as the 109's) and still need quite a few to flatten site
Tried it with 6 x F-35A with a total of 48 SDBII. All strikes acheived weapons on site (up to 12) but not one of the 10 runs I tried eliminated the Grave Stone despite the weapon having IIR plus active RF seeker.
Look at the picture I posted of the site. An IIR seeker should take the FCR. The frag should likely damage or destroy the rest of site. These big missile warheads dont seem to do the damage they should given the S-300/400 sites are minimum 68 metres and maximum 172 metres in diameter (I measured around 50% of the Russian and Belarussian sites using GE). The one shown, for reference, is 126 metres across. A single 109 over the FCR, should shred the entire site.
Next round of testing will be to try against a blended target (VHF radar + Battle Management Radar + Pantsyr + S-400)
Here are some munition costs I found, for the purpose of looking at this:
Weapon Service Cost each Source
JDAM AF $28,550.49 DoD budget FY23
SDBI AF $56,481.71 DoD budget FY23
Hellfire ARMY $105,685.55 DoD budget FY23
MALD-J AF $130,000.00 Google

SDBII AF $223,780.52 DoD budget FY23
Joint Air-to-Ground MSLS ARMY $347,889.99 DoD budget FY23
JASMM AF $1,348,447.46 DoD budget FY23
PrSM ARMY $1,861,148.31 DoD budget FY23
Tomahawk NAVY $2,262,318.97 DoD budget FY23
Trident nuke NAVY $30,300,000.00 Google
2-3 dozen MALD-Js to cover your tomahawks is $3.1M to $4.6M, then you have to pay for the tomahawks.
Saturating with x64 cheap SDB-I seems to be the way to go, launched from 2 flights of x4 F-35A. $3.6M, no dead pilots and the S-400 is a smoking ruin.
As to the GBU-69 as suggested by the OP, the US DoD doesn't appear to procure them in great quantity as of yet. Or they do but only for super-secret SOCOM stuff.