Here's what hot my thinking about it (I know infact it's not a new delema) seen in current events

https://defence-blog.com/xdown-develops-stud-drone-for-squad-level-strikes/

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Also the Badger-J doesn't have any jammers in it's loadout (like how the EA-6B has them). So it becomes useless for anything except providing a surface search radar backup to the Bear D.

And the Nimrod ASW plane having sidewinders is making the AI use it for intercepting air units even though it's the ASW loadout. It's going for them even if that air unit is a 12 plane squadron of Flankers. They're probably better off with those removed from the ASW loadout.

For facilities, can't really find a rationale after reviewing the existing database.  Found an old reference that equates facility damage point assignment to the number of 1000lb bombs it would take to make the facility inoperable.  However, when I look at assigned damage points in the database, seems there is a pretty large spread.  For example, looking at airfields with 1 runway that can handle VLarge aircraft, damage point assignments ranged between 2500-9000.

Any guidance or rules of thumb?

George

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-174B

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/2025-world-air-forces-directory/160846.article

Being inclined toward writing code I tend to try to solve with technology, in this case writing a new Platform Editor (PE) and the littany of associated changes to the other game components.

Benefits:

1. Make the number of entries in the database nearly limitless, up from roughly 4096 per annex today.  This 4096 limit, despite being doubled from 2048 is a limit that has been reached in the newer databases.

2. Eliminate dependency on Microsoft Access which few people have and despite free MS Access Runtime being available, installation of it is fraught with difficulties (mismatched Office versions breaking other apps, Access not working, etc.).

3. Allow additional fields and features.  Think finally being able to associate URLs to photos, articles, videos to a platform's record.

4. Allow more collaborative editing with attribution.  User 1 creates a platform, User 2 makes it faster, User 3 gives it more damage points.  The scenario author could choose any of the 3 versions of the platform and you could track back to see the platform's editing lineage.  Lots of questions and potential complexity here if an author wants to share a platform for use but not allow further modification and other similar use-cases. 

Challenges:

1. Would want to start with a web-based editor for simplicity meaning the website would have to be alive and working for database editing.  The exported database could still be distributed as a file so would not be lost to websites crumbling.  We would also use an open format (JSON, XML, ...) where someone could more easily write another editor as compared to the current binary format.

2. Not a small undertaking, other flashier changes would be put on hold for let's say much of 2022.

3. We'd need a authentication provider.  It is easy enough to use the forum software here but worth a discussion if people would prefer using a different identity provider (Google, Facebook, etc.)

Thoughts?  What additional information do you need in order to formulate thoughts?

https://www.space.com/secret-satellites-caught-on-camera

it must be simply an "Anti Radar Missile - Decoy", very good idea but for years very intriguing for me!

At aircraft entry, we have a slot called ECM. Is it compatible with ECM pod.

For example, if we have a 10% ECM slot and a ALQ-131 ECM pod with 20%...

Do we get a total of 30% ECM (10%+20%)?

This is different if we have two ECM pods (20%*2=40%) that we know we can't have.

https://naval-encyclopedia.com/cold-war/us/skate-class.php

Don

see https://electronics.leonardo.com/documents/16277707/0/Vulcano+127.pdf?t=1671440934942

In HC terms two are Guns, one is a missile (speed about 2200 kts). When I used the missile I thought 'wow, so slow', but then when I started to think about it the speed was quite correct and more realistic than the instant gun hit (or miss), so I started to wonder for long range artillery should we use 'missile' and not 'gun' weapons?

I'm interested in the new Kingfisher concept for ASW including the delivery of small depth charge and sonar buoys and thinking if use 'missile' then could use an asroc style weapon.

see https://www.navylookout.com/the-kingfisher-gun-launched-anti-submarine-munition/

What do people think?

Don