Foothold - Persian Gulf

I just did a test flight in a F/A-18C with Tald and ARM. I set the ARM to SPP, but they would not fire. The Tald did launch fine. Before I could debug the situation further, I was picked out of the sky by some MiG, ouch.

Followed then by a SAR op in the Huey. Much more of a success :smiley:

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Oh, of course I have my kids this weekend. :grin:

Sorry they win every time.

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Find two more computers and teach them the Su-25T… :joy:

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I’ve been on vacation, with a bad fever the past few days, so I very probably won’t be able to join this weekend, but I am really really enjoying the AARs here.
If someone could stream the attack, that would be great!

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I’m up for some viggening.

Am willing to Stream via Discord. No OBS on my current rig.

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I have another idea to help coordinating strikes:

If someone with admin privileges in Discord could create a new role (e.g. Strike Lead) which allows the creation of events, this could work as some sort of ATO.

Give this role to some of us here in this thread and we shoudn’t have to worry about abuse of this feature.

All users should already be able to subscribe to those events and get notifications before the start.

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LOL! You joke but since my ex had to do more than me and she gifted my son a gaming laptop ( :roll_eyes: - the less I speak… ) technically speaking we do have enough machines for a three plane fighting element :rofl:

My kids like the idea of learning to fly, but they are not quite there yet. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Awww, sorry for that man. :frowning:

Take care of yourself!

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I would be able to stream @Freak

I can only make it for sure on Saturday though. I might be able to join very late today but I am busy earlier providing redair for a training session

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Oh man, blue is gonna be sore!

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They’ll have AMRAAMs and AIM-9Ms, I’ll have R-27Rs and R-73s. I’ll try to sneak up on them, we’ll see how it goes xD

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Feel free to have at it today gents.. I’m stuck at work probably until 5PM Eastern (2200 UTC)… I reset the server before I walked out the door today..so it should be daylight on the server all day…

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Ok, if I’m reading this right - we have 5 people for 12pm (my pacific time), so about 2.5 hours away today?

My suggestion of the simplest thing that could possibly work would be something like:

  • Discord for voice, internal typing in DCS chat if people can’t do voice.

  • Waypoints and stuff, not sure, especially as it’s the Viggen and data cartridges, REF/LOLA etc. We could do this as a hobbo ATO:

  1. Take off from Khasab.
  2. Fly due East, afterburner 1 light, 100m, so like 090 from airport until due South of Red Carrier (wp14) group
  3. Tail formation on the way, judicious use of the F10 map.
  4. When the last person is off at Khasab then the we turn North North/East, using the lateral spread between us to help out the RB-4’s as much as possible.
  5. Let go of the RB-4’s in single mode, as they blow each other up if dropped in pairs.
  6. Fly back to Khasab. Try again, adjusting for what didn’t work.
  • The range of the RB-04E is about 30km. If you use the radar and 60km range then about half way (or use F10 if radar is weird). Put at least 10 seconds between your pair of launches. When we fire we all roughly fire together to maximum aspect.

  • If anyone does TALD/88 then they go first, get up high and the #1 viggen flight will turn left once the bad guy fleet notices that.

  • If we have CAP that’s fine, if not then we’re zoomy and the distances on all this are super small. We can probably fly to the area in less than 5 mins, so we do a Brave Sir Robin and run away south or to cover over Khasab.

  • If anyone is streaming or just watching and on Discord voice then act as a controller and let us know what’s happening ideally.

@miRage - I think @BeachAV8R has permissions for that so not sure if for today.

What say people?

Ai could never capture the human heart like this art represents. Key:

Green - Viggen/Hornet harpoon flights heading East and turning North together.

Pink - TALD/88 and any CAP we have

Oh, we should be careful spawning in at the same time. If you do spawn in then taxi forward to the line while waiting, otherwise team kills. Ideally announce on discord or dcs chat

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Oh, oh…OH! I may actually be able to join..! :open_mouth:

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Leslie Nielsen Good Luck GIF by filmeditor

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Be aware..that if you kill all the ships in the Carrier Zone…it may not go neutral unless you kill all ships in the box. Also.. I’ve seen various descriptions of how the zone goes from neutral to blue. I have seen descriptions of blue ships moving into capture it… but it also may be possible to take a helicopter and land on that oil rig on the southwest corner of the zone (with zone supplies)…

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Taking bets on if we manage to send 10 RB-4’s into that oil rig instead..

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So, in about an hour and a half it kicks off?

I gotta brush up on viggenisation.

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I think so yep.

Using the weapon without waypoints is easier but less cool of course.

chucksguides.com/aircraft/dcs/ajs-37/#pf146

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I’m long ProShares 3X Crude and liferafts so that’ll do…

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