None of us would confuse 270° heading with 090° and accidentally go to Palymra…
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I’ve added some beautiful (IMO 
) annotations to define the zones. Easy zone has no CAP, but moderate and hard do, and the CAP stays (for the most part) in its zone (i.e. if you want to attack hard zone, the CAP in moderate zone shouldn’t chase you too much unless your flight path goes close to the moderate zone. The Iranian Tomcats roam a bit more than the pre-existing CAP and their Phoenixes don’t care about boundaries as much, fair warning!
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Autopilot on…bank hold…program SLAM-ER missiles…fire…stay in Easy Zone… 
(@fearlessfrog and I actually had this discussion that just typing 200 characters of lat/long inputs didn’t sound too fun…I still haven’t dropped a JDAM I don’t think…)
Watching the Tomcats outrun the SM-2s launched by the fleet is awesome. They are fast…
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Ha, I actually watched the SLAM-ER video last night, in a sort of evil scheme to just stay in the pattern above the boat and lob intelligent killing machines towards the coast while sipping coffee. The FLIR picture you get back from them on the Datalink 13 pod is pretty rough though, making it hard to use a $3 million per shot on a single T-55. I still might try it though - they are basically SuperNintendo Walleyes.
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This sounds like a plan. We should try to catch the mission early on as well if we can.
If those two are out then Wujah Al Hajar would be an easier next capture as well.
EDIT: For a SU-25 run to An Nasiriyah to take out the x1 CAP runway there, we could use the King Hussein Air College blue base to start? They have hornets there as well if you need CAP / HARM partners.
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Poor MiG - nowhere to go…
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Ha…! I was hoping if we had destroyed all the ground targets there that I could put a bomb through that revetment too!
I totally got target fixation that last ten minutes and didn’t look at the picture around us. That M2000 was at point blank range when he shot at me. Gutted.
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The more I play this mission the more I enjoy it. There really is something for everyone…and so many ways to approach it. I just wish I had more than a couple of hours to dedicate to it each run through so that I could finish what I (we) set out to do. I think we are getting better at it though.
Couple quick questions:
I was getting lit up by an SA-11 as I was flying on the east side of an airfield we were attacking. @fearlessfrog was on the west side of the field with HARMs but wasn’t getting an emitter signal…is the SA-11 radar in tracking/firing mode omnidirectional or focused?
F10 view - yeah…it’s a cheat…but I feel like we would have more precise AWACS calls if there were a real AWACS controller running the show. I feel it is a slightly justified cheat. And it certainly didn’t save me from getting bounced by that Mirage…
This was our first Friday on the SFROG server and there were about 10 other guys pounding the northern region of the map. One of them did trigger “The Palmyra Incident” which spawned Su-27s that went to give those guys grief… I assume they were on a dedicated SRS channel because I wasn’t getting anyone on 249.000…
I can’t wait to try again…
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Yep really enjoying it. It’s the case where learning all the systems and being able to use it in a fun environment that is pretty succinct.
Quite keen to get in a A10C II to tidy up some bases now. It felt good to use a Hornet from the Jordan base today as well - lots to do, plus a nice map.
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Decided to spend my morning coffee time tarting up my pod-racer. Pretty jazzed about how effective it is in the low-level airfield denial role…so I had to put kill markings on my ride…
Also went back into the tutorials and refamiliarized myself with the SEAD capabilities. It is actually a pretty easy process in the -T…
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After getting our behinds beat by sticks today, and just so so narrowly missing out on taking out that Iranian Generals Yak, that would have helped us a lot (@BeachAV8R was > < this close with his missiles) I decided to get all high tech and try something different.
JSOWs!
These flying suitcases may help us suppress their CAP a bit, just for an hour, if they crater the runway ok. I chose the 154 'C’s which are the ‘broach’ ones (sounds pretty).
With targets programmed in (just like the Aces of Old) I throw them at about 60 NM ish. They glide a long time…
I had to fight my way in a bit, and took out a M-2000C on the way, but they had plenty of MiG 29’s on hand. I died after I had weapon released, so hopefully they have no-where to land.
After a really long time gliding they deftly avoid a local SA-15 and…
…hit perfectly mid field!
So I think that’s Hama airbase at least gone quiet for an hour. Next time I’ll spread them out a bit, plus perhaps wait for a gap in the CAP rather than trying to yeet them so desperately.
So, we might win, and it’s going to be really really expensive weapons. 
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As I have to type coords into the Hornet (sigh) then this add-in is really useful:
Simple but very effective. It just uses a text file, so even easy to put stuff in when in 2D and use when in VR.
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Success - we took al-Hajar…! I even got to bomb two airplanes as they were taxiing out just before we shut it down…!
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How you finding the ATFLIR? You’re getting lethal with those LGBs. 
I’ve found the cluster height setting of the JSOW A, apparently by default it’s too high (no wind adjustment for CBUs in DCS as yet I think). I’ll try 1200 ft next time. One JSOW should be able to take out a decent circle of armour.
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The ATFLIR + HMD is such a great combo. And now that I finally learned to slave the pod to the waypoint (!) …it is much easier to find the target area. I also learned to quickly zoom out and redesignate in the general area once the bomb hits.
What was that munition the Warthog carried…the sensor-fuzed hockey puck things…does the Hornet have anything like that?
CBU-97…
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Yep, 97s. A few of the bases have clusters of armour so they would work pretty well I think.
Edit: the Hornet just has 99s though, so less effective I think?