CV32

A tremendous amount of work went into the HCWW database but it only managed to attract a handful of scenarios.

Part of the reason might be the fact that the code is not particularly suited for gunnery warfare.

2022 WWIII Video Game Tournament Championship (Third World War 1987)

Re Moskva:

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/04/analysis-chain-of-negligence-caused-the-loss-of-the-moskva-cruiser/

Good reading.

https://rockymountainnavy.com/2022/04/14/moskva-burning-using-the-wargame-harpoon-v-from-admiraltytrilogy-com-to-assess-the-story/

Yet another twist ... she has sunk while under tow, according to Moscow.

2 hours ago, Silent Hunter UK said:

DoD has said it is still afloat and heading for Sevastopol.

Yes, I see a US defence official has stated she is still afloat and moving east. Possibly under tow. There are a congregation of Russian search & rescue and support vessels in the area, and Russian warships in the Black Sea appear to have moved generally away from the Ukrainian coast (and thus away from the potential missile threat.) The presence of an orbiting Global Hawk (callsign Forte10) southwest of Crimea is probably providing superb and timely intel.

There appears to be a strong possibility that Moskva has been sunk.

3 hours ago, Silent Hunter UK said:

Ukrainians are claiming to have hit Moskva with two cruise missiles and set it on fire.

Reuters is reporting the Russians have admitted serious damage and a complete evacuation of the crew due to an ammunition explosion and fire. Ukraine claims hits from two Neptun coastal defence antiship missiles. This is big.

Its now been a month since the war in Ukraine began, and although I am sure many of you have been watching closely, there hasn't been much chatter about it here.

Some of the Twitter feeds that I have been following, and which you might also find useful:

H.I. Sutton

Modern War Institute

ISW (Institute for the Study of War)

Calibre Obscura

Russian Defense Policy

Christo Grozev, Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat

ELINT News

Rob Lee

Jomini of the West

Intel Crab

Ukraine Weapons Tracker

Michael Kofman

OSINTtechnical

MilitaryLand.net

Not an exhaustive list but lots of useful material here.

Abundantly clear now that at least some aspect of the long standing speculation is over. 😬

As of 21 February:

If New Looks could kill: Russia’s military capability in 2022 (IISS, 15 February 2022)

Black Sea flagship Slava class cruiser Moskva has joined her sisters Varyag and Ustinov in the Med. Three Slavas in the Med!

The phibgru has entered the Dardanelles enroute to the Black Sea.

The Project 636.3 (Kilo) class sub Rostov-on-Don is due to return to the Black Sea on 11 February.

10 hours ago, eeustice said:

Harpoon has been around since the early 90's. I purchased my first copy on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. It existed as a board game before that.

 

1979 for paper and 1989 for the PC game.

Welcome to the forum, Jason. 🙂

The Russian phibgru made a brief stop at Tartus, Syria and is now reportedly underway again.

Meanwhile, the Ustinov group entered the Med through Gibraltar yesterday and the Varyag group has also entered the Med via Suez.

There are now two Slavas in the Med, something which I think has not happened in a long time (if ever.)

The Ustinov group has been joined by the Project 1541 (NATO Luza) class tanker Kama, and entered the English Channel yesterday.

The Russian phibgru was off Sicily yesterday.

If any scenario creator is looking to put together scenarios depicting the evolving situation in Ukraine, I can offer the following information to assist:

Spotted yesterday morning off Finnmark by a Norwegian P-3C Orion:

Project 1164 (NATO Slava) class missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov, Project 1155 (NATO Udaloy) class destroyer Admiral Kulakov, Project 22350 (NATO Admiral Gorshkov) class frigate Admiral Kasatonov, a Project REF-675 (NATO Kaliningradneft) class tanker Vyazma and Project 712 (NATO Sliva) class rescue tug SB-406.

Already in the Mediterranean, Project 864 (NATO Vishnya) intel collector Vasiliy Tatischev.

Enroute to the Med, having passed through the English Channel:

Departed naval base at Baltiysk in the Baltic Sea:

Project 20380 (NATO Steregushchy) class missile corvettes Stoykiy and Soobrazitelny.

In the Arabian Sea but apparently enroute to the Mediterranean:

Project 1164 (NATO Slava) class missile cruiser Varyag, Project 1155 (NATO Udaloy) class destroyer Admiral Tributs and Project 1559 (NATO Boris Chilikin) class fleet oiler Boris Butoma.

In the Black Sea:

Over 20 Russian Black Sea Fleet’s warships deploy to sea for drills (TASS)

These include the following:

Minesweepers Project 266M (NATO Natya) Ivan Golubets, Project 12700 (NATO Alexandrit) Ivan Antonov and Project 266ME (NATO Natya) Valentin Pikul

Project 1124M (NATO Grisha V) ASW corvettes Suzdalets and Yeysk (or Eysk?)

Two other unidentified ASW corvettes?

Frigates Project 11356 (NATO Grigorovich/Krivak IV) class Admiral Essen and Project 1135 (NATO Krivak) class Ladny

Missile corvettes Project 21631 class Grayvoron and Ingushetia, and Project 12411 (NATO Tarantul) class Naberezhnye Chelny.

Aviation OOB information can be found here:

How The Russian And Ukrainian Air Forces Stack Up Against Each Other (The War Zone)

A China-US war in space: The after-action report (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

On 11/21/2021 at 2:42 AM, donaldseadog said:

I don't think that's ugly at all. I love it. Maybe load outs could have a range factor and be shared across multiple aircraft? Maybe don't need loadouts but compatible weapon bundles, each with its range factor? Maybe this could then even allow getting around the unlimited aircraft weapon situation? Very random thoughts.

Speaking as a DB editor, its worse than ugly.

The last thing you want (again, from the perspective of a DB editor) is for your changes to any single annex entry to have negative effects on the values of multiple other annex entries. To the point of potentially making a scenario unworkable.

Speaking as a scenario creator, its worse than ugly.

On 12/27/2021 at 2:54 PM, broncepulido said:

Ships designated to employ F-35C and/or F-35B and year target dates:

• USS Wasp (LHD 1)
• USS Essex (LHD 2)
• USS America (LHA 6)
• HMS Queen Elizabeth (UK)
• USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
• ITS Cavour (Italy)
• USS Makin Island (LHD 😎
• USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
• USS Tripoli 2021 (LHA 7)
• USS George Washington 2022 (CVN 73)
• USS Boxer 2023 (LHD 4)
• USS Theodore Roosevelt 2023 (CVN 71)
• USS Iwo Jima 2024 (LHD 7)
• USS Bataan 2025 (LHD 5)
• USS Gerald Ford 2025 (CVN 78)

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/12/end-of-year-2021-f-35-milestones/

The "and/or" is important, because many of these ships cannot operate the F-35C.

Stock scenarios will work with the HCDB.

On 12/17/2021 at 9:32 PM, Byron said:

I was running a scenario with F-35C and after launching AAMRAMs at a pair of Typhoons I had them reverse course and hit burner  to try and get away from the missiles launched at my aircraft. Imagine my horror when they were only doing about 870 knots. I just read the C model can do 1200 knots. Wiki has it at Mach 1.6. Is there something I’m missing here? And I’m using the stock Db

Byron

The database uses the H4 data (where available) that was available at the time.