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How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 4:05 am
by Rubanartem87
Friends, share your experience. Is it possible to inflict with your aircraft and artillery on the objects of enemy airports in order to prevent aircraft from taking off? What do you think airport facilities need to be damaged for this? Is it possible to damage only the runway enough?
Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 10:15 am
by blu3s
From one of the strike tutorials:
At between 75% and 100% integrity level (ie. 0-25% damage), the runway can handle very large aircraft.
· Between 50% and 75% integrity it can handle up to large aircraft.
· Between 25% and 50% integrity it can handle up to medium aircraft.
· Between 10% and 25% integrity it can handle up to small aircraft.
Between 1% and 10% integrity only STOVL aircraft or helicopters can operate. (<--- At this point you're literally looking at craters and broken chunks of concrete everywhere. Perhaps even the STOVL ability is optimistic, given that in such a condition the engine-FOD would be quite likely...)
I usually strike runaways, taxiways and access points.
Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 12:09 pm
by BDukes
Section 9.3 of the manual is about exactly this. Check it out
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Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 3:22 pm
by Schr75
If you take out all runways and runway grade taxiways you will shut down the airfield.
Alternatively, you can take out all runway access points. This will prevent the enemy planes from reaching the runway to take off.
Which approach is the best depends on the enemy airfield and the weapons you have available.
Runways (and taxiways to some extend) are typically heavily armored so they require penetrator weapons to really do some damage.
Access points on the other hand are only lightly armored, so HE weapons will do a great job here.
Hope this helped.
Søren
Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2023 4:26 pm
by foxid259
A very easy way to land planes, is to destroy 2-4 connection points that connect the runway and taxiways.
Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:49 am
by Blast33
To help you a little bit, here is a print screen of a XLS I made a few years ago.
CMO is programmed that every (!) airfield you attack will repair the runway in a very fast time. Maybe this was the case in the Cold War but I wonder how the situation is at the moment..I don't know.
You can fight the program and attack the runway access point of just try
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Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 11:45 pm
by Knightpawn
How long does it take to repair a bombed runway (say 50% degraded and 90%+ degraded)?
Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 9:54 pm
by Blast33
The lovely answer is...it depends
The first question is: In what timeframe is your scenario? In the Coldwar NATO and the WP had units to repair damages. But probably Brazil did not.
Nowadays many airforces in Europe discarded these capabilities and it is unclear who can do what.
Secondly: What kind of weapon is used. Penetrating or blast (how deep is the damage.
Feel free to scroll down this post and read Fri Jul 21, 2023 10:15 am
Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 5:07 pm
by Gunner98
Blast33 wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 9:54 pm
The first question is: In what timeframe is your scenario? In the Coldwar NATO and the WP had units to repair damages. But probably Brazil did not.
Nowadays many airforces in Europe discarded these capabilities and it is unclear who can do what.
That is very true but the capability is easily reconstituted - or contracted. You're not looking for a permanent repair so all you need is:
1. Bulldozer to scrape away the crap
2. A dump truck full of gravel
3. Asphalt, either with a purpose-built machine or a dump truck and steam roller - or cement
4. A few hours to let everything cure, perhaps applying chemicals or heaters or other aids to speed up the process
5. Spray paint to tell the pilots where to avoid if they have a chance
If you use deep penetrator munitions or runway busting cluster munitions it makes the process much, much harder. But basic holes are easy work to fix.
Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:03 pm
by bsmithwins
Gunner98 wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 5:07 pm
Blast33 wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 9:54 pm
The first question is: In what timeframe is your scenario? In the Coldwar NATO and the WP had units to repair damages. But probably Brazil did not.
Nowadays many airforces in Europe discarded these capabilities and it is unclear who can do what.
That is very true but the capability is easily reconstituted - or contracted. You're not looking for a permanent repair so all you need is:
1. Bulldozer to scrape away the crap
2. A dump truck full of gravel
3. Asphalt, either with a purpose-built machine or a dump truck and steam roller - or cement
4. A few hours to let everything cure, perhaps applying chemicals or heaters or other aids to speed up the process
5. Spray paint to tell the pilots where to avoid if they have a chance
If you use deep penetrator munitions or runway busting cluster munitions it makes the process much, much harder. But basic holes are easy work to fix.
Plus you'll want the EOD guys to disarm or blow the delayed detonation ordnance...
Re: How to prevent enemy planes from taking off from the airfield?
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 4:27 am
by Quixotic1917
Knightpawn wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 11:45 pm
How long does it take to repair a bombed runway (say 50% degraded and 90%+ degraded)?
I've been trying to experiment to find out myself. I'll be sure to post if I can ever find a pattern for how the facility repairs work.