From what I have seen on the three videos I have speeded through and the
briefings, they did mention the call of 88’s which I guess means AGM-88’s, used
for wild weasel missions so I guess they were taking place. The major briefing
mention of the fourth mission that the longer range SAM (S-300 maybe) was a
sleep I guess that means taken out in the previous missions. The SAM and AAA
batteries were human manned and in the first mission you see SAM’s fired.
On their debrief they lost a flight of F-15C’s to fighters.
Unfortunately there are not more videos of information(that I can find) of what
is going on with this campaign. I thought it looked quite impressive from what
I have seen and I guess they would not make it a milk run campaign after going
through all the effort they obviously have put in to it.
How real it is to what’s going on in Syria at the moment, not sure as the game
might not be up to date on modern equipment so they will have to go with what
the game gives them. But what it did show is that you have to know your
aircraft, etc.
Beats flying on the style of maps/campaigns we are getting in IL2 at the moment
in my opinion.
Colin
On 22 May 2021, at 13:11, 56RAF_phoenix <phoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'll add some more to this (fortunately my knowledge is superficial, so I can
say whatever I want):
This mission involves NATO fighters and GA - no Wild Weasel, where are all
the jamming pods... against coherent Syrian air defence.
I doubt this mission could ever have been run in RL. The NATO 'planes would
have been dead meat against the more up-to-date defences Syria used to have.
When you hear of Israeli fighter-bombers over Syria in RL recently, I would
guess:
a) Syria no longer has coherent air defence (in most places)
b) They probably have some sort of agreement with the Russian air
defences near the Russian occupied airfields not to shoot at them as long as
they only attack Hezbollah related stuff
c) The Israelis probably have some particular exploits against the
slightly older Soviet systems that they keep for special occasions
d) If you look at open source you'll see that the Russians are rather
careful about how up-to-date the stuff they sell the Syrians is. The news
reported S-300 going to Syria some time ago. That's last generation.
That makes this big mission an exercise in timing and coordination, not
warfare.
56RAF_phoenix
On 22/05/2021 11:55, 56RAF_phoenix wrote:
Colin - The trouble in that it's impossible to be anything like realistic
for this era. Even by lateish Cold War, it was all dominated by radar, SAMs
and above all ECM.
And those ECM details were incredibly highly classified, because if you knew
how to jam the opponent's data comms to their SAMs it was game-over.
That's particularly true of Soviet/Russian SAMs because almost all of them
are centrally controlled by the engagement radar.
The analogue era ended some time ago.
Likewise for air-to-air, it all became beyond-visual-range and ECM four
decades ago.
None of this can be realistically modelled in a sim, because the sim makers
won't have the information.
This is why I rarely fly anything post-war. It's pure fantasy.
56RAF_phoenix
On 22/05/2021 10:52, Colin (Redacted sender bart_56 for DMARC) wrote:
Along video forget about the some of the stuff, but what I thought was good
about it was the scale of the operation and that someone was prepared to
put it together.
Looked impressive.
DCS video: https://youtu.be/0CeaD_6ltDg ;<https://youtu.be/0CeaD_6ltDg>
Colin
On 19 May 2021, at 19:32, Colin <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Been flying DCS most of the week flying the MkIX and F-86 on the Quest 2
which runs DCS a lot better than the Index. The Quest 2 with ASW 90hz to
45hz but @2704x2736 (Index 2016x2240) and higher in game settings, it has
less ghosting hardly any.
