CV32

A new version of the official Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) Database (HCDB-140909) is now available. Get the new DB in the Downloads section. New additions (or overhauls of existing entries) include: Aircraft: AC-130J Ghostrider - USA AC-130W Stinger II - USA P-3C Orion BMUP+ - USA Ships/MLUs: Kamorta Project 28 FFG - India S-350E Vityaz - Intl S-500 - Intl Submarines: Kilo (636.3) SS - Russia Enjoy.

It appears that way in the GE because the remaining missiles are nuclear armed.

A 'sharpened' suggestion (with existing loadouts shared, wherever possible) is welcome.

Already there. Look for the CM variants. I am seeing only 3x Phalanx. These will be tweaked, albeit with more conservative values than suggested.

Making Sense of the Japanese Submarine Option (The Diplomat)

Images Show the Buk that Downed Flight MH17, Inside Russia, Controlled by Russian Troops (Bellingcat)

9 September 1855 During the Crimean War, the siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian troops finally abandon the city after a year of holding the allies (English, French and Ottomans) at bay.

Chinese Carrier's Purported Air Wing Deemed Plausible but Limited Details from the article:

Certainly its true that many such decisions are only as good as long the governments that make them are still in power.

I haven't seen any mention of a booster addition, just a software change to permit the missile tip over, so yeah, my initial feeling would be reduced range. So, the Hellfire approach for LCS potentially brings more firepower, but it isn't terribly useful until the threat is at virtually point blank range.

8 September 1965 Under Operation Dwarka, seven surface combatants of the Pakistan Navy launch a raid against the Indian town of Dwarka, intending to destroy a radar site there and to try and draw out major units of the Indian Navy so that they might be ambushed by the ex US Navy Tench class submarine PNS Ghazi. The operation failed in both respects.

Stavridis: Russian Mistrals Could Work Well As NATO Rapid Reaction Force Asset (USNI News) Suspecting that Putin will ultimately "win" in the Ukraine, this would be a bit of a thumb in the eye.

Cameron: UK Will Operate 2 Aircraft Carriers (DefenseNews)

I'm back to working on the DB, and a new version should be available before the end of the month. As much as I would love to add new platforms to the Ship/MLU annex, including new versions with the latest sensor and weapon fits, we unfortunately have that same problem of rapidly diminishing space.

5 September 1972 The Palestinian terror group Black September carries out an attack against Israeli athletes attending the Olympic Games in Munich.

4 September 1923 First flight of the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first of four US Navy airships, takes place at Lakehurst, NJ.

Iron Dome Blunts 90% Of Enemy Rockets (Aviation Week) versus The evidence that shows Iron Dome is not working (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

Conscience? France: 'Conditions' Not in Place to Deliver Ship to Russia

3 September 2004 The Beslan school crisis ends after three days when Russian special forces assault the building and attack the Islamic separatist militants. 334 of the approximately 1,100 hostages are killed in the resulting mayhem.

About the same as before. Boxing the battle group into Gdansk Bay - with Blue submarines closing in - really ensures its doom, imho. I would put the group into open water further north. This would have the effect of forcing the Blue subs to maneuver, instead of simply closing for the kill, and expand the front that Blue has to deal with. It would also put the group potentially under the air cover of fighters coming down from northern airfields.

The last update of the HCDB added a bunch of Ukrainian units. Fortuitous?? In any event, you can expect new scenarios and a new DB soon.

Another small suggestion - your Russian tube artillery is given as 155mm, but in reality it is 152mm. I played through again to completion. The Russian air defences were harder to crack, but I had more Tornado IDS/ECR at my disposal so it played roughly the same time as last time. Took me longer to run strike sorties, and to achieve victory. Polish ground forces were chewed up.

2 September 1945 Virtually six years to the day after it began in Europe, World War II ends in the Pacific with the signing of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

China expands runway, harbour at Woody Island (Jane's)

29 August 1949 Izdeliye 501 (Device 501) or RDS-1, also called 'pervaya molniya' ('first lightning'), and known in the United States by its codename Joe-1, is detonated at Semipalantinsk in the Soviet Union's first successful test of an atomic bomb. The blast yields 22 kilotons, and ushers the USSR into the atomic age nearly 5 years earlier than expected in the West.