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Some further notes for you on visuals and influencing factors, especially as regards ships and mobile land units (MLUs): The 'Mast Height' and 'Detect Size' fields do not appear to matter when it comes to visually spotting ships and MLUs. The 'low light level' flag in the Ships/MLU Annex gives that ship or MLU an enhanced visual capability. Essentially it makes it always 'daytime' for the platform as far as visuals go, but it is negatively affected by bad weather/precipitation. It generally has a shorter range than the 'IR' flag, but can see submarine periscope wakes and gives more information upon detection (i.e. exact position, name, propulsion type). The 'IR' flag is not influenced by weather and gives bearing, type and size of a detected target. It cannot, however, see submarine periscope wakes.

Seems HMS Triumph was responsible for taking out Qaddafi's compound in Tripoli, presumably with a pair of Tactical Tomahawks.

I've confirmed your problem. No available loadouts for the F-15I. I am not seeing similar problems with other platforms and with other scenarios in the EC2000 MEDC battleset, though it is possible they are there. I wrote this scenario many moons ago (Autumn 2000, iirc), so it may be that we've lost some tidbit of data in the battleset since then.

I've got a piece of advice for JoeK and his 'MiG invader' problem. Turn on your ships' radars. You don't give up much to the enemy in the Thanh Hoa Bridge scenario by doing so, and you potentially gain a better chance of spotting those Nguyen Van Coc wannabees. A further note about Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) aces. Did you know there were sixteen of them in the Vietnam war? Did you know most of them (13) flew the MiG-17? Many American pilots were taken by surprise; some of them never saw the MiG coming.

Nah, I wouldn't waste a valuable reconnaissance asset like a Vigilante in the role of close escort for an E-2B. Plus, it has relatively short legs, so you will have to be cycling a lot of Vigilante sorties just to keep one on station with the E-2B. The better course of action - and this lends itself to most situations in which an E-2B is going to be used - is to keep the E-2B in relatively close proximity to the fleet. Most all of which will have ESM and decent radars themselves. In the E-2B era, enemy antiship missiles were relative fledglings, so you need not worry excessively about attracting hordes of missiles down upon the fleet. Moreover, if your E-2B is flying in the Vietnam war, say off Yankee Station, chances are it will have a PIRAZ ship offering cover in the Gulf of Tonkin anyway. Another line of ESM, radar and SAM defense. I won't often give my E-2 a direct escort. If its an E-2B, then I can rely largely on the cover of the fleet as described above. If its an E-2C operating in later years, through the 1980s or the modern era, a bit of fighter escort might be needed, usually as a function of how close to enemy airfields you are. In the open ocean, not so much. Either way, you won't need "many", and the extra fighters I am sure could be used elsewhere. All you may need is a pair, perhaps, to deal with leakers and snoopers.

Look at your formation editor for that particular unit. Chances are the unit is in an outer ring of the formation, probably many miles from the center. For best chances of matching group and unit maps, the unit should be in the center of the formation (although this may not always suit your needs).

There is no hard and fast rule, and it will depend on the radar type and according to the platform. Ships will have the 360 degree radars, almost all AEW types of aircraft, and only certain of the others. That's right. There are no arcs in effect for missiles launched from aircraft, and only the most basic of links between radar and radar guided weapons.

Thanks, Enrique.

Heh, looks like Peter Grining had asked this question before. Wonder if he ever got a definitive answer ... Yeah, I am aware of this source. Problem is that it doesn't differentiate between the 16 rounds in ready storage and the remainder of the magazine. There may not be any appreciable difference, but that's why I am looking for something definitive.

The carrier Enterprise has gone in the other direction, and is now in the Arabian Sea supporting ops in Afghanistan. UAE sending 'strike aircraft' (presumably its F-16E/F Desert Falcons), due to arrive at Decimomannu (Sardinia) sometime today (20 March). Qatar sending four Mirage 2000s to Solenzara (Corsica), due to be in operation today.

Its there. Look for 'CF-188', as this is the local designation (although CF-18 is typically used).

Italian Tornados now joining the effort, with potential for Canadian CF-18s to fly tonight.

Four F-15E Strike Eagles and eight F-16CJ Falcons also saw action, perhaps in combination with those B-2s or in separate missions.

The visual detection and line of sight rules are also governed - at least to some extent - by H3 paper (as with the radar LOS). The air to air visual LOS is related to the 'size' of the target, except at High altitude, where it is 50 nm. Otherwise, at Low altitudes: Vsmall - 0 nm Small - 3 nm Large - 6 nm Recall that the 'size' of the target is determined by the Size Field in the Aircraft Annex of the PE. The time of day will also affect chance of visual detection, i.e. 100% in daytime, 66% in twilight, 33% at night Times of day are (roughly) broken down as follows: 2000 - 0400 hours, Night 0400 - 0900 hours, Morning (dawn/twilight) 0900 - 1600 hours, Day 1600 - 2000 hours, Evening (dusk/twilight) Weather will also cut down on visibility, with modifiers as follows: Clear weather, no precipitation = 1.0 Light rain/fog = 0.6 Moderate rain/fog = 0.2 Heavy rain/fog = 0.05

Lots of good pics - including the tanks and vehicles (including what looks to be an SA-8 Gecko TELAR) destroyed by the French yesterday - can be seen here. MilitaryPhotos.net

The air search radar angle is 60 degrees off the nose. A loitering aircraft will turn in a slow circle and you can observe this by watching the direction of the heading arrow. This is significant for every aircraft not having a 360 degree search radar, so in effect most types, fighters, attack aircraft, etc.

Not quite a full warload of 16x 2,000 lb JDAMs apiece, unless they were mixing ordnance. Either way that should be sufficient to put an airfield out of action, busting runways, taxiways, shelters, fuel and weapons storage, etc, etc. You may recall they used the B-2 to shut down Obvra (Serbia) back in '99.

Its a bit of a sister scenario for Tony's Thanh Hoa Bridge, in some ways, so I hope you enjoy it.

Next up, RAF Tornado GR.4s and their Storm Shadows, flying all the way and back from RAF Marham. Impressive stuff.

Tomahawk shooters are apparently the fast attacks Scranton, Providence, the SSGN Florida, and the Burke destroyers Stout and Barry, and a British submarine. No word on which British boat afaik. Apparently a mix of Tactical Tomahawks (Tactoms) and older TLAMs against 20 odd targets.

Moving heavy weapons should be readily apparent, but yeah, small arms and such would be difficult to discern. The rebels are going to have take on the role of establishing checkpoints to oversee and control that road traffic. Given France's apparent close air support mission earlier today, I expect the 'coalition' is already in contact with rebel leaders and/or friendly forces on the ground.

The 'commondb.res' file is the primary database component and you swap it out to switch between databases. The 'commondb.rsr' file is the image file for the platform display and may be correlated to a particular database. You can swap it out too to match images with the database you use above. The launcher will automate a lot of this for you.

First wave: 112 cruise missiles Barry was among the Tomahawk shooters.

One British submarine, three US submarines and two US destroyers apparently participated in the Tomahawk strike.

Enterprise and her escorts Leyte Gulf, Bulkeley, Barry and Mason were still in the Red Sea, afaik. Florida was at Souda Bay on 7 March, according to Navy News Service. Information Dissemination had this article on 2 March regarding what ships were in the area.