CV32

Part 1 (War is Boring)

Part 2 (War is Boring)

Part 3 (War is Boring)

Part 4 (War is Boring)

Quantum Communications and Chinese SSBN Strategy (The Diplomat)

Turning Point: The F-35 May Not Deliver (National Interest)

Reagan, Reykjavik, and strategic imagination (Foreign Policy)

Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed (Rapid City Journal)

Corrosion issue stops F-35 deliveries for a month (Flight Global)

That's a good question, one for which I don't have an answer.

Navy Qualifies Stealthy Carrier-Launched F-35C For Combat (Scout Warrior)

Article title is misleading .... carrier qual is not the same as combat capable.

Report on USS McCain and USS Fitzgerald collisions (Dept of the Navy, pdf)

Delivery Of Russia's Refit Nuclear Battlecruiser Delayed But Progress Looks Impressive (The War Zone)

Chinese warship #3021 Luzhou Type 051C has Plane Capacity=2, should be Plane Capacity=0, as has not hangar (SS-N-20 launcher complex size precludes the installation of hangar in the aftercastle, showed in photos below). Also, probably Helipad should be "small" (The Chinese warships is a confuse matter because all are much alike between them!)

The presence of a hangar is not the sole determinant of whether a ship has the ability to land a helicopter (e.g. many replenishment vessels), although it is obviously germane to the ability to sustain aviation capability.

Meanwhile I think you meant SA-N-20 instead of SS-N-20.

You'll have to be more specific regarding versions and filenames. But for general guidance:

Start with your 2015.027 patched HUCE from Matrix. Then apply any newer builds attached to this message.

Those newer builds are currently HC2017.013 (for the Game Engine (GE) and Scenario Editor (SE)) and HC2017.011 (for the DB Utilities and Battleset Builder, etc).

F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds (Bloomberg)

 

Loadout #55785 ASW-2 for Ka-25 ASW variants is armed with 4x#24577 VTT-1 Strizh wire-guided ASW torpedoes.

Simple typo. Thanks.

Link fixed.

Indian Air Force wants out of fighter program with Russia (DefenseNews)

Royal Navy's Carrier Strike Group is Taking Shape (Aircraft Carrier Alliance)

India to Launch 2nd Strategic Nuclear Sub by End of 2017 (The Diplomat)

Russia’s Navy to Get 10 Upgraded Sub-Killer Helicopters Per Year (The Diplomat)

Ship entry #2151 Udaloy (1155/80), representing the two first ships of Udaloy-class, Udaloy (1980) and Vice Admiral Kulakov (1981) should have Country=USSR, and not Country=Russia (if not you can't find the two first ships of the class for USSR building a pre-1992 scenario).

Thanks. Very few of the Russian/Soviet ship entries have yet been brought up to HCDB2 standard (as indicated by the lack of the new name nomenclature). I will get to them in due course.

SPOILER ALERT!

 

Played this last night after the recent news article showing a B2 participating in S Korean joint exercise. V difficult to take out the bases without using the B2s as guided missiles. Someone should send a copy to the White House - maybe then the rhetoric might calm down! Positioned the U2s on passive to the SE and SW of the DPRK radar coverage. Damaged the two western mainland bases with tomahawk volleys - assuming these would be the hardest to get B2s in and out of. I think I averaged 50% and 60% damage respectively! Split my four B2s into two flights with tankers, sending one flight west across the Yellow Sea and back in across China (Yikes!) to strike Pyongyang from the NW. The other flight went east over the Sea of Japan to turn in west to strike the eastern bases. I think that JDAMs normally drop from medium height but guessed that the stealth modelling in the game would mean that I would have to go in at V Low to stand a chance. Still not sure if activating the radar at the last minute is needed for defensive ECM - not that it made an appreciable difference to the outcome! Even vectoring the approach to come in at a tangent to the AA defences and avoiding tight turns over a target - I was mostly toast. Tried bugging out all altitudes - it just changed which missile battery got to me first. The best tour of duty had a 25% crew mission survival. I'm still not quite sure about the tanker arrangements with the new database so I force refuelled outside the air radar coverage and loitered the tankers over Japan. (Only could refuel to 65% - I need to explore if you can refuel more than once but this scenario was hardly ideal for practising!) In the end I emptied the TLAMs at them based on the interpretation that if this didn't scream out for a contingency arrangement, what does? My learning curve continues its remorseless climb. Many thanks to CV32 for the drubbing!

John

Thanks John, glad you enjoyed it. The scenario ended up being tougher on the player than I expected, even with the TLAM option added.

As TonyE has already mentioned, the stealth model in HCE is pretty rudimentary. Not only does it not take into account such things as LPI radar, but there is no distinguishing between radars as to more complex characteristics such as frequency.

Picket 2 and Picket 3

Sorry if this wasn't obvious, lol.

I think what Nightshade111 is asking is where the two new formation rings fall in terms of function.

As in, the four previously existing rings were Main Body, Anti-Air Warfare (AAW), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Picket, so what are the two new rings?

Significant Food Shortages Likely in North Korea (38 North)