A Buccaneer is flying at high altitude and has detected a Soviet Class Skoryy Destroyer at a range of 76.0nm (Radar LOS is 241nm). When the range has closed to 55nm the Buc fires a Sea Eagle.

At a speed of 594kts it will take just over four and a half minutes for the cruise missile, flying at sea skimming altitude, to find it’s target.

The Skoryy Destroyer has no chance of detecting the Buccaneer out to that range, and very little chance of detecting the incoming missile. Its Don surface search radar is first able to detect the inbound at a maximum range of 7nm and its High Sieve radar could potentially pick up the inbound at 8nm. With a 60% chance of detection, both the Don and High Sieve fail to pick up the inbound.

In the following tactical turn the Sea Eagle which is only 7.0nm from the Skoryy, moves 14.0nm before the Skoryy gets another opportunity to detect the inbound danger. The Sea Eagle gets a free swing at the Skoryy, with no defensive fire to avoid.

The Sea Eagle has an 80% chance of hitting the Skoryy, which (amazingly) has no electronic countermeasures. The Sea Eagle slams into the Skoryy without notice, with the following implications;

Able to absorb 86 damage points, the Sea Eagle imparts 46 damage points leaving the Skoryy with 40 damage points remaining.

Maximum surface speed is immediately reduced from 34kts to 9kts

7 critical hits are incurred, being

Engineering hit: ship speed further reduced to 0kts, effectively dead in the water. A minor fire starts in the engine room, causing another loss of a damage point (39 remaining)

4 x weapon mount hits

130mm is lost, 85mm is lost and the depth charge projector is lost (hit twice).

Sensor, Cross Bird radar is lost.

Major flooding, ship looses a further 3 dp (36 remaining).

The Sloryy is left to drift, dealing with a minor fire and major flooding.

The fire is extinguished in the following turn while flooding continues at a Major classification (33 damage points remaining).

Unable to stop the flooding, 63 minutes later the Skoryy sinks due to flooding.

Follow up points:

Much of this will be obvious.

The Sloryy didnt have much of an Air Search radar, making detecting the air plane or incoming missile very difficult.

The Sloryy (chosen because i noticed it was a destroyer and assumed it would be "armed to the gills") didnt have any countermeasures (I'm shocked).

The range of the Sea Eagle (6o.0 nm) made the engagement much easier for it than the 5.0nm range of the AS30.

You shouldn't be too surprised by the results. It pitted a late generation (1986) antiship missile against a post WWII era (1949) destroyer.

 

Quick issues arising:

* The Skoryy has 1st Gen ESM. Presumably it would have detected the Buccaneer's own Blue Parrot radar, and possibly even the Sea Eagle's own active radar seeker (albeit at much reduced range).

* I think the best case scenario for the Don SS radar picking up the Vlow missile was at just 3 nm. (Vlow target detection by SS radars have their range halved).

* Even if the Skoryy had picked up the Buccaneer and the Sea Eagle at the max possible range, it probably had no chance of stopping the missile.

I saw "Soviet", I saw "Destroyer" and figured "capable". I'm not familiar with allot of the units so its not instinctive for me to choose opposing sides. I need to do a better job of matching up opponents.

 

I also need to slow down a bit, I need to do a better job of getting all the rules/ranges correct.