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Modification 16 July 2017: - Modified starting speed of a SSN at maximum speed!

Sources: http://www.cornwalllive.com/merlin-helicopters-from-rnas-culdrose-stand-guard-around-hms-queen-elizabeth-aircraft-carrier/story-30417518-detail/story.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4658082/Free-app-showing-location-HMS-Queen-Elizabeth.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/29/russia-claims-hms-queen-elizabeth-large-convenient-target-warns/ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2017/july/03/170703-young-pilot-makes-history-with-first-deck-landing-on-hms-queen-elizabeth http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/26/russia-will-envy-royal-navys-new-aircraft-carrier-says-fallon/ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/russia-mocks-britains-new-hms-10707472 http://tass.com/politics/953810 http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/news/a27142/uk-russia-aircraft-carriers/ HMS Queen Elizabeth MOD source photos, but not employed because the confuse copyright use: http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/fotoweb/Grid.fwx?position=177&archiveid=5002&columns=8&rows=1&sorting=ModifiedTimeAsc&search= http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/fotoweb/Copyright.fwx

File Name: God Save the Queen! July 2017, Historical/Hypothetical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 16 Jul 2017 File Category: GIUK God Save the Queen! July 2017, Historical/Hypothetical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB2-170611 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/UK/NATO side or from the Red/Russia side. You should play a few times first the Blue/UK/NATO side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red/Russian side. Image: HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) is floated out of her dock for the first time in Rosyth, Scotland in 17 July 2014. MOD photo in Open Government License v1.0, and 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 and later Soviet territories for reinstitute the greatness of his Russia, and to guarantee his passage on the History as saviour of the Rodina. From May 2014 Putin was provoking in succession the Crimea, Ukraine, Donetsk, Baltic States, October 2014 Swedish submarine incursion, G-20 Brisbane meeting naval crisis, November 2014 Faslane submarine incident, frigate Yaroslav Mudryy February "Channel Dash", April 2015 Finnish submarine incursion (for many observers causing the pre-mobilization of Finland reserve forces), Russian intervention in Syria from 30 September 2015, shoot-down by Turkish F-16 fighters equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAM on 24 November 2015 of a Russian Su-24M as consequence of the repeated unlawful overflights of Turkey by Russian warplanes based in Latakia, and after two months of repeated warning, March 2016 detection by the French of a Russian submarine near Bay of Biscay and its SSBN base, the propaganda stunt of the deployment of the only one Russian aircraft carrier Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov steaming (a lot, literally) from Kola Bay towards Eastern Mediterranean from October 15, 2016, and with constant and multiple Russian overflies with military warplanes entangled in potential incidents with commercial flights in Europe, so far as at the Portuguese shores. That without counting in other unrelated naval incidents aside the upcoming Second Cold War, just as the Iranian seizure of the merchant Maersk Tigris in 28 April 2015, the shore-based anti-ship missile attacks against the catamaran transport ex Swift (HSV-2) and US destroyers on the Red Sea in October 2016 and the ulterior retaliation, the first military operation of the Trump Administration on January 28, 2017, the MV-22B tiltrotor raid of SEAL Team 6 operating from USS Makin Island (LHD-8) against Houthi Yemen, the later January 30 incident, when an Al-Madinah-class Saudi frigate was attacked and damaged probably by a Houthi suicide or drone boat off Al Hudaydah, Houthi Yemen, and the constant and intense naval drills as Sea Shield, Dynamic Manta and Dynamic Mongoose 2017. (And without counting in great landlocked actions, as the complex counter-Daesh operations in Middle East). And meanwhile, more towards Far East a less perceived and 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 to be completed by 2020. For many observers the continuous and large NATO and partners military exercises show to Russia the Western will to resist his threats, keeping a tense peace. The Russian were also executing continuous exercises and operations, and showing them without many explanations in propaganda news reports, from the Zapad-17, projected for 14th-20th September 2017, to as in this case an apparently limited ASW exercise between an old and a new submarine (Incidentally, Russia is planning to transfer its 1st Guards Tank Army for exercises to western Belarus in September 2017). Between all those events, on 26 June 2017 the new British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth steamed from Rosyth for six weeks for her first operational sea training cruise. First, UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon, writing in "The Telegraph" on 27 June 2017, stated about the "dilapidated" Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, and how "the Russians will look at this ship with a little bit of envy". Two days later, in response, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov mocked the UK's new ship, saying "The British aircraft carrier is nothing more than just a huge easy naval target". At last, to support his official claims, President Putin decided to clarify the question, ordering the Northern Fleet submarine forces to provoke an "accidental" and "confuse" targeting incident with real torpedoes, simulating a training error, to get the result of see HMS Queen Elizabeth in the North Sea bottom. Enrique Mas, 16 July 2017. Click here to download this file

The erroneous initial loadouts in the aircrafts should be an issue of the Database version employed (Of course no use for B-2A with nukes in this scenario!). The MIN-VIC should be revised, I'll be on it, but is only a secondary priority, as this scenario is in long term revision to be adapted to HCDB2 (Mostly the painful work of replace Chinese in origin generic international bases, to be asigned to new uses and names in the new Database, with correct Red bases in the new HCDB2 Database), at present times the Database to be employed is HCDB-150928 1980-2015 era Platform Database. Thank you very much by your feedback.

Incapable to Import HCDB2 170714 in the Platform editor. See attached screen photo files for details, mainly about "Depurate". (In case it can be a hint, in the partially imported HCDB2 170714 I don't find now Argentina's "25 de Mayo" carrier variants, or Egyptian "Mistral"). Error 1.zip

Theorically are present 10xChinese SSN (each with a probability of apparence of 50%) and 27xSS (each with a 37%), as consequence, some 5xSSN and some 10xSS should be present in the Chinese side.

Thanks for you feedback, Palex 80. The bombers are not present in Guam because the Chinese forces are also limited to shore-based naval aviation units (and perhaps some high-end Chinese Air Force elements), is also not present the Japanese Air Force or other Japanese elements. The idea is to depict a limited carrier action, preventing both sides to attack land bases to avoid an escalade.

Great AARs, thanks for sharing. I'm glad you enjoyed them. Some very little notes: - I intended to depict the current Chinese OOB, for shake of realistic simulation. - The training and transport planes are included by sake of historicity and to keep track on the Chinese OOB. After the painstaking work of reasearch and build the scenario, was easier to keep them than no include them!

Interesting author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._W._Singer And more concrete, this book relative our "study field": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Fleet:_A_Novel_of_the_Next_World_War

The other DHC-8 variant is a "black" and exotic variant, US Army RO-6A, equivalent to MC-12W Liberty but bigger (Not of much interest, we can use MC-12W). Probably only six converted from DHC-8. Sources: http://robedgcumbe.com/ro-6a-lurking-around/ http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&p=776125 http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=121546 https://offiziere.ch/?p=26910

Perhaps two DHC-8 variants: Icelandic Air Guard DHC-8-314Q variant (Employed with NATO forces in the current Dynamic Mongoose 2017 exercise, also Iceland is thinking in introduce true military forces on its inventory): - Only one in service from 2009. - No details in the Net, but many photos. In this one shows FLIR, and unidentified SLAR (Two poles, one each fuselage side) and ventral SS radar. - Apparently no RWR, ESM or decoys. - Radars and systems probably as in EADS CASA C295MPA/MSA/VIMAR Persuader: - Radar confirmed, is ELTA EL/M-2022(V)3 (underfuselage): 200 nm range, Surface Search/Air Search, PH=70%, 360º. AS/SS (Syntetic Aperture capable). - SLAR Radar? Terma SLAR 9000 (Two booms, one in each underfuselage side): 25 nm range. - FLIR confirmed as Wescam MX-15. Image: https://www.planespotters.net/photo/201117/tf-sif-landhelgisgslan-icelandic-coast-guard-de-havilland-canada-dhc-8-314q-mpa Aircraft historial: https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/De-Havilland-Canada/DHC-8_Dash-8/660/TF-SIF-Icelandic-Coast-Guard Confirmed, radar is ELTA EL/M-2022(V)3 (Above edited): Performances: http://www.lhg.is/english/icg/about-us/air-assets/tfsif/

Dynamic Mongoose 2017, yearly ASW exercise, starts near Iceland (Even with participation of Icelandic OPV Tyr), from 26 June to 8 July 2017: http://navaltoday.com/2017/06/27/nato-submarine-drill-dynamic-mongoose-starts-in-iceland/

Modification 3 July 2017: - Very minor title change (previously strange words order).

A Merlin HM.2 is the first helicopter to deck landing in HMS Queen Elizabeth: http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2017/july/03/170703-young-pilot-makes-history-with-first-deck-landing-on-hms-queen-elizabeth

For flight comparison, German Eurofighter 29 June 2017: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNNDK0s-ljo&feature=youtu.be

Tu-214R, in ordinary service from after its March 2016 deployment in Latakia. Equipped with SLAR/SAR (estimated 135 nm range), FLIR and ESM. Two in service (But I thnk did read four in somewhere). Sources: https://theaviationist.com/tag/tu-214r/ https://theaviationist.com/2016/02/15/tu214r-deployed-to-syria/ https://southfront.org/most-modern-russian-spy-plane-tu-214r-escorted-by-su-30sms-was-spotted-in-syria-video/ Automatic translation from Russian Wikipedia entry: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83-214%D0%A0 In contrast to classical aircraft with rotating radars like A-50 or E-3 (AWACS), the Tu-214R uses a radar of the AFAR design consisting of several panels. The "lateral view" radar is visible at the cockpit of the pilots. A similar arrangement is used for the Israeli G-550 airplane, [4] the side-scan radar was similarly configured, and on the IL-20 although they were conventional non-coherent radars. [5] In addition, the "circular" scanning radar [6] is also claimed, it is in the figure fairing in the rear of the fuselage. [7] The radar range in active mode is estimated to be 250 km, [7] [8] in the passive mode of electronic reconnaissance, the range of detection of objects by their own radio emission to 400 km (probably at such a distance it is a question of detecting enemy radars and powerful radio stations). ] The sources also state for the passive radar mode there is a mode of listening for unprotected radio communications. [9] In general, since the official data on TTX for MRK-411 from the manufacturer is not available, the evaluation of experts is indicative. In front of the bottom of the fuselage is a complex of optical reconnaissance "Fraction" [4] intended for obtaining high resolution images in the visible and infrared range, including both photographs and video stream with an overview and focused angles of view. The "Fraction" station can be guided to targets according to external preliminary target designation or by its own algorithms, for example, by detecting an approximate target area by its radio emission from a fixed radar MRK-411. "Fraction" can refine the angular coordinates of the target with an accuracy of 1 minute, which in the presence of 3D-maps allows you to get very precise coordinates of the targets. In December 2012, Tu-214R was seen over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan. In June 2015, Tu-214R made flights along the border of Russia and Ukraine. On February 15, 2016, board number RF-64514 arrived at the airfield Khmeimim near Latakia, used by the Russian air group in Syria, for conducting reconnaissance operations [10]. On March 2, Tu-214R was returned, after two weeks of stay in Syria. July 29, 2016, one plane again arrived at the airbase Khemeymim.

Modification 2 July 2017: - Added HCDB2-170611 1980-2025 New Standard Database scenario version.

Sources: http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2017/june-2017-navy-naval-forces-defense-industry-technology-maritime-security-global-news/5318-russian-navy-victor-iii-class-ssn-obninsk-practices-torpedo-attack-in-drills.html

File Name: Barents Sea Russian ASW Drills, June 2017. Historical Training Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 01 Jul 2017 File Category: GIUK Barents Sea Russian ASW Drills, June 2017. Historical Training Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB2-170611 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/Russia side or from the Red/Russia side. You should play a few times first the Red side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Blue side. Image: The only one modernized Russian Udaloy.class destroyer, Vice-Admiral Kulakov inward bound to Portsmouth Naval Base, UK, for a five-day visit, 24 August 2012. Photo by Brian Burnell, 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 and later Soviet territories for reinstitute the greatness of his Russia, and to guarantee his passage on the History as saviour of the Rodina. From May 2014 Putin was provoking in succession the Crimea, Ukraine, Donetsk, Baltic States, October 2014 Swedish submarine incursion, G-20 Brisbane meeting naval crisis, November 2014 Faslane submarine incident, frigate Yaroslav Mudryy February "Channel Dash", April 2015 Finnish submarine incursion (for many observers causing the pre-mobilization of Finland reserve forces), Russian intervention in Syria from 30 September 2015, shoot-down by Turkish F-16 fighters equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAM on 24 November 2015 of a Russian Su-24M as consequence of the repeated unlawful overflights of Turkey by Russian warplanes based in Latakia, and after two months of repeated warning, March 2016 detection by the French of a Russian submarine near Bay of Biscay and its SSBN base, the propaganda stunt of the deployment of the only one Russian aircraft carrier Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov steaming (a lot, literally) from Kola Bay towards Eastern Mediterranean from October 15, 2016, and with constant and multiple Russian overflies with military warplanes entangled in potential incidents with commercial flights in Europe, so far as at the Portuguese shores. That without counting in other unrelated naval incidents aside the upcoming Second Cold War, just as the Iranian seizure of the merchant Maersk Tigris in 28 April 2015, the shore-based anti-ship missile attacks against the catamaran transport ex Swift (HSV-2) and US destroyers on the Red Sea in October 2016 and the ulterior retaliation, the first military operation of the Trump Administration on January 28, 2017, the MV-22B tiltrotor raid of SEAL Team 6 operating from USS Makin Island (LHD-8) against Houthi Yemen, the later January 30 incident, when an Al-Madinah-class Saudi frigate was attacked and damaged probably by a Houthi suicide or drone boat off Al Hudaydah, Houthi Yemen, and the constant naval drills as Sea Shield and Dynamic Manta 17. (And without counting in great landlocked actions, as the complex counter-Daesh operations in Middle East). And meanwhile, more towards Far East a less perceived and 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 to be completed by 2020. For many observers the continuous and large NATO and partners military exercises show to Russia the Western will to resist his threats, keeping a tense peace. The Russian were also executing continuous exercises and operations, and showing them without many explanations in propaganda news reports, from the Zapad-17, projected for 14th-20th September 2017, to as in this case an apparently limited ASW exercise between an old and a new submarine (Incidentally, Russia is planning to transfer its 1st Guards Tank Army for exercises to western Belarus in September 2017). This is a good, fast, apparently simply and tense scenario to introduce new players in the Harpoon basics. Of course this is a training exercise and actual shots, torpedoes and missiles aren't fired and nobody is hurt... Enrique Mas, 1 July 2017 Click here to download this file

Great explanations in this comment on the same article by Spudman WP, quote: "The original requirement for Block 3F was to hit a 40mph target. This applies to a vast majority of the military targets on the battlefield. The F-35 has already demonstrated the ability to hit these “normal” moving targets. Plans were already in place for an upgraded EOTS at Block 4.2 that would handle higher speed targets using normal munitions (ie not Hellfire or specialized LGBs like the Raytheon bomb in the article). However, with the increasing use of higher-speed targets (read: "Technicals") on the battlefield, there was a growing need to hit targets up to 70mph sooner rather than later. Raytheon and others have proposed a low-cost adaptation of an existing bomb that would be close to 3F compliant and allow a 3F F-35 to hit “high-speed” targets. The reason that Raytheon even has this bomb in the pipeline is that most LTPs cannot hit high-speed targets using normal Paveways & LJDAMs on their own, just like the F-35." Incidentally, for Wikipedia: GBU-49 Enhanced Paveway II – BLU-133 500 lb (227 kg) bomb. Raytheon's Enhanced dual-mode GPS and Laser guided version of the laser-only GBU-12. In my personal notes GBU-49/B is EGBU-12 Enhanced Paveway II.

F-35 to receive inmediantly capability to attack moving targets, with the fast integration of GBU-49: http://www.defensenews.com/articles/raytheon-pushing-gbu-49-as-quick-fix-to-give-f-35-ability-to-hit-moving-targets

Perhaps PMR-1 Kalmar (1970), antisubmarine mine equivalent to US captor mine, with 533mm diameter, capable to be launched from submarines and surface ships, PMR-2 Golets (1973) apparently has passive guidance, speed 80m/s=155 knots, range=0,43 nm, warhead=200 Kg, but I know in the DB is present the very equivalent Cluster Bay (antisubmarine) and Cluster Gulf (antisurface): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%9C%D0%A0-1_(%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0)

Ship 2264 Burke Flt IIA DDG91/08 has as country "Russia", but not "USA".