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https://thediplomat.com/2022/02/what-a-19-year-old-study-tells-us-about-chinas-j-20/ https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/thediplomat_2022-02-14-191931.pdf

Working on an upcoming scenario, I see the "advanced" weapon entry 16448 AGM-158C LRASM (IOC B-1B 6/2018, FA-18E/F 11/2019), if equipped with (Historically accurate, apparently) guidance flags "IR/laser guidance" and also "Antiradar", doesn't work if the target is disabled and not radiating! i.e., the IR/laser doesn't work as subsidiary and it's not "targeting". I did change my personal test DB to "only" IR/laser, and works as usual.

Incredible! But just my working hypothesis in the outcoming scenario. Putin knows it's his last stand, and CG Moskva is trapped and a sitting in the Black Sea. Sailing in the med is at least propaganda.

Working on it, but not a clear outcome yet.

Some sources: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/375323/Naval-SITREP-61-October-2021?src=newest http://www.admiraltytrilogy.com/scensupp.php https://seapowermagazine.org/cooper-lcs-deploying-to-u-s-5th-fleet-in-2022/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2021/11/27/new-freedom-class-littoral-combat-ships-now-fixed-eye-iran-deployment/?sh=61a312c4a58d https://www.southcom.mil/MEDIA/IMAGERY/igphoto/2002758529/ https://www.southcom.mil/MEDIA/IMAGERY/igphoto/2002884409/ https://www.southcom.mil/MEDIA/IMAGERY/igphoto/2002758535/ https://almashareq.com/en_GB/articles/cnmi_am/features/2019/02/12/feature-01 2015 but probably of interest: https://www.uskowioniran.com/2015/10/irgc-n-military-technology-exhibition.html

View File LCS in the Gulf, late 2022. Hypothetical Scenario. LCS in the Gulf, late 2022. Hypothetical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for The Middle East Battleset and the HCDB2-170308 new standard 1980-2025 Platform Database. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/US side or from the Red/Iranian side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. Image: The Freedom-variant littoral combat ships USS Wichita (LCS 13), USS Billings (LCS 15), and their embarked aviation detachments, as the in the photo MH-60S, participate in a maritime training exercise in the Caribbean Sea with the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11), July 4, 2021. This exercise marks the first time three Freedom-variant littoral combat ships are deployed and operating together. Sioux City, Wichita, and Billings are deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South’s mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marianne Guemo/Released/A serviceperson on duty and in consequence on public domain) This scenario is inspired by the "Pasdaran Swarm Attack" by Chris Carlson published in Harpoon Naval SITREP 61. With the world centred early 2022 on the Russian menaces to Ukraine anything can happen the next months. The deployment of Freedom-class LCS in the Persian Gulf for late 2022 was announced January 2022. This scenario is simple on its planning and execution, but perhaps difficult to master. US ships steam near the Saudi east coast, protecting the sea lanes in the Saudi territorial waters, while waiting for a probably Iranian harassment attack with minor and irregular units. Because the complex world crisis land-based air (Or other type) support is not expected, as Gulf countries negate its bases use in this action for no irritate Iran. At last the LCS are alone on first line of battle, just what they were not designed for. Enrique Mas, January 30, 2022. Submitter broncepulido Submitted 01/30/2022 Category Middle East  

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Just in my personally modified DB Mirage 2000 have ground attack enabled 30mm DEFA guns. In the POLARIS 21 scenario they try to gun the Charles de Gaulle CSG with very bad outcomes!!! (Clearly I've disabled now that capability in my personal DB).

I fear don't understand the required version reference:

And a Happy New Year!!!

CVN-75 to keep station in the Med: https://news.usni.org/2021/12/28/secdef-orders-u-s-carrier-uss-harry-s-truman-to-stay-in-mediterranean-to-reassure-allies

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/

Merry Christmas!!!

SPOILER ALERT: Perhaps another try could be more difficult, SSN Amethyste presence probability is only 50%.

Some sources: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/11/here-is-the-ship-list-for-polaris-21-frances-high-intensity-combat-exercise/ https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/11/french-navys-first-air-defense-fremm-alsace-enters-active-duty/ https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/11/u-s-navy-ships-and-p-8a-poseidon-mpa-join-french-led-exercise-polaris/ http://www.opex360.com/2021/11/26/marine-nationale-apres-un-tour-de-chauffe-lexercice-naval-polaris-21-entre-dans-le-vif-du-sujet/ https://www.francebleu.fr/emissions/mare-latinu/rcfm/mare-latinu-polaris-21-6000-militaires-francais-et-etrangers-autour-de-la-corse https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/international/polaris-21-un-exercice-exceptionnel-mobilisant-6000-militaires-au-large-de-toulon-1637247154 https://www.naval-technology.com/news/uss-porter-takes-part-in-polaris-21/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA-z0eHeLB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv3dbS2zOZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5GrvQNYyW8 "Tout ce qui épaissit le brouillard de la guerre" résume le contre-amiral Christophe Cluzel à la tête de Polaris 21. Ce dernier ne connaît pas d'ailleurs non plus la totalité du scénario. "Je sais simplement que nous serons à 2.000 km lorsque l'action va débuter. Et que l'ennemi va mettre une bulle de déni d'accès sur une zone. Ce que je veux démontrer, c'est qu'il n'y a pas de fatalité dans le déni d'accès. Avec de l'audace en combinant nos effets avec une approche assez large, avec par la combinaison d'effets cinétiques et non-cinétiques, et avec de l'effet de surprise, on est capables de lever un à un tous les verrous de la porte que l'adversaire s'attache à mettre" détaille le commandant du groupe aéronaval. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Au-zMTlUgE And this one, discovered after publishing the scenario!!! https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/polaris-2021 About the use of F-16CM/DM Blk40 by the 31st Fighter Wing in Aviano: https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/deployment-aviano-f-16s-to-raf-lakenheath

View File POLARIS 21 exercise, late 2021. Historical Training Scenario. POLARIS 21 exercise, late 2021. Historical Training Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCDB2-170308 new standard 1980-2025 Platform Database. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/NATO side or from the Red/"Mercury" side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. Image: The U.S. Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE-6, lead of her class), the Italian Marina Militare frigate Federico Martinengo (F 596, FREMM-type, ASW variant) and the ubiquitous U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78, Burke-class Flight II, with modifications for Ballistic Missile Defence tasks and forward deployed from 2015 to Naval Station Rota, Spain) conduct a photo exercise during joint operations in the Mediterranean Sea, 22 April 2020. Photo took by a US serviceperson on duty and in consequence in public domain, took from Wikipedia Commons. From the eventful year of 2014 the World was beginning the so-called Second Cold War, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin (ex-KGB lieutenant colonel) was showing clearly his plan to recover the Russian Empire including previous Soviet territories for reinstitute the greatness of his Russia, and to guarantee his passage on the History as saviour of the Rodina. And meanwhile, more towards Far East a less perceived and gradually growing problem was China, as reflected in the transfer of the 60% of the USN and USAF combat forces to the Pacific Theatre of Operations from 2012, move completed by 2020. This time period is characterized by constant drills and exercises of the Western forces to keep its proficiency and fighting readiness. At last, from November 25 to December 3, 2021, was developed the exercise POLARIS 21, acronym for Preparation Operationnelle en Lutte Aeromaritime, Resilience, Innovation et Superiorite (Operational Preparation on Antisubmarine Warfare, Resilience, Innovation and Superiority). It was a mostly French exercise, but centred on a NATO near future all-out confrontation with a near-peer enemy. Both sides reflect the exercise historical limited resources of its respective orders of battle, with slight modifications for playability. Despite I'm the author, could say is a replayable, fun and balanced scenario, and as in the real life both sides have many paths to victory. Of course this is a training exercise and actual shots, torpedoes and missiles aren't fired and nobody is hurt ... Enrique Mas, December 19, 2021. Submitter broncepulido Submitted 12/19/2021 Category MEDC  

F-35 are slower than usual fighters CLEAN, but probably not when as usual a conventional fighter is not clean.

Related from many itinerations ago, but I've never mentioned it because is cumbersome and difficult to reproduce (And I know TonyE does not use autoformation patrols): 1.- Not programmed patrols in ship formations, usually extra ASW patrols too near and in too small formation sector near the formation nucleus. Also with helicopters in Assault loadouts (as AEW patrols), not present if loadouts are previously changed in the scenario Editor to Ferry or Cargo. 2.- Autopatrols shoot down, both human player but mostly IA, are not repeated, or repeated after a very very very long interval, but obviously in both cases the sides have available helos or airplanes to reproduce instantly the patrols (Clearly at the scenarios begins).

that has been ever annoying

Just played some 1 day and 9 hours of playtime with these results (See photo), but now I see are not specific victory conditions. Fun and intense scenario, thanks for sharing.

Great details on French and Italian Horizon DDGs, including small sensors and decoys: https://www.navalanalyses.com/2014/07/horizon-class-destroyers-of-french-and.html

Hypersonic threat simulation test UAV to be employed next year from Stratolaunch: https://www.stratolaunch.com/vehicles/talon-a

Great! Thanks!