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Working through how to respond to the Flogger threat...

This is likely my last post until after my vacation.

Have fun and keeping gaming!

Hey MikeJ19, very nice AAR! Good job with strike coordination, it is IMHO one of the trickiest parts of warfare.

Careful with that Flak range, the stated range is for land/surface contacts only.

If you look at the shell spreadsheet, the anti-air range is significantly shorter.

Ancalagon

I'm curious about the large number of SA-7 "Losses".

Are they expenditures? If so, that's a LOT of Manpad launches; how close are your strike platforms getting?

If they weren't launched, but were actually lost due to combat damage, that's a lot of good bombing/strafing, and some unlucky SA-7 teams.

Like I said, the numbers make me curious about how them. (Were they cued by radar? We're all well aware of the IR seeker cool-down limits, battery life, etc. The SA-7 is not something kept "hot and ready".)

The MANPADs are probably the ones that are component parts to the lager SAM units. Many Soviet SAM units have integral SA-7 as close in defence. They would get killed when that larger units get slammed.

Found a bit of time to play while on holidays.

Are they trying to force my hand?

By 2300 local, no Flogger attack has happened. Here is an earlier screen shot.

Thinking through my next strike.

I have done some more detailed planning for the next strike.

Here come some Flankers

Having problems setting up the SEAD missions...

Mike

I suspect that there are no radars emitting among the targets. In this situation I think a SEAD patrol will work best. Set up a PZ off the coast, set up the prosecution zone over the area you want suppressed. If you need suppression only over a short time than remove the 1/3 check so they will all surge and patrol in the PZ and wait for a radar to light up in the prosecution zone. Even is you never fire a HARM - mission achieved as the radars are suppressed, probably because they are damaged by the previous strike but maybe they are just playing doggo and you're ready when the do come on.

When your strikers come in, if the radars are going to turn on -they will, and you are ready with your HARMs. If they don't the strikers go in with a security blanket on.

You can go hunting if you want and gradually expand the Prosecution zone once your strikers are heading home.

B

Bart,

I was wondering if that was the case. Thanks, I will try this out.

Have a good day!

Mike

Setting things up again. I need to work on this more to get better at setting up the prosecution zone easily while working on the mission.

Here is the plan.

An hour later, I am not happy with the results. Need to learn some lessons and try this again. I need to remind myself that I'm learning still ...

At least I am having fun!

Tried the new approach a couple of times, my losses were still very high. As you can read below, I'm going to restart at the high point of this last strike and start moving forward with a new approach...

Putting the plan into action.

Switching the loadout was easy.

That was interesting.

Looking at the switch to attacking the rebel planes