Whow! another great update today! (I admit I was thinking for a moment the Trollenhagen Base was a joke!).

This latest update is a bit of a whopper.

Very good idea to make the weapon entry 19078 Marine 10 man squad a missile and not a bomb, Brad, and not flag it as ship attack capable. Previously a lot of planes and helicopters can assault and sunk a ship with troops.

Very good idea to make the weapon entry 19078 Marine 10 man squad a missile and not a bomb, Brad, and not flag it as ship attack capable. Previously a lot of planes and helicopters can assault and sunk a ship with troops.

 

The 'missile' model is more or less intended for use in the amphibious context. Bit of a test. Might have to increase range a little.

Some very minor issues and considerations in HCDB-130729:

 

Entry 11559 F-15D Akef has not attached her clearly pretended loadout entry 57261.

 

Entry 11586 Br.1050 Alize is probably refered to the original Breguet Alizé post-1964 modification to use L4 and Mk44 torpedoes, and Julie/Jezebel type sonobuoys (the Indian Alizes from 1968), but all the planes were apparently fully converted/updated in Br.1050M and as consequence retired from service from 1978: http://www.ffaa.net/aircraft/alize/caracteristiques.htm

 

Entry 11595 AS.565F Panther (Saudi Arabia) probably lacks an ASW loadout (with 2xMk46 as Jane's 2004 states), HS 12 sonar, MAD and DPS flags.

 

Entry 4024 Icelandic OPV Thor has not damage points neither magazine reserve ammo.

Entry 11586 Br.1050 Alize is probably refered to the original Breguet Alizé post-1964 modification to use L4 and Mk44 torpedoes, and Julie/Jezebel type sonobuoys (the Indian Alizes from 1968), but all the planes were apparently fully converted/updated in Br.1050M and as consequence retired from service from 1978: http://www.ffaa.net/aircraft/alize/caracteristiques.htm[/font][/size]

The Br.1050M modernization program took place between 1978 and 1983, so there was a short period in 1980-83 when there were unmodified aircraft still in service.

 

Entry 11595 AS.565F Panther (Saudi Arabia) probably lacks an ASW loadout (with 2xMk46 as Jane's 2004 states), HS 12 sonar, MAD and DPS flags.

But never confirmed. A single reference from Jane's is insufficient.

No major neither minor issues or errors in the new planes and ship of the last iteration HCDB-130818!!! Hurrah Brad!!!

I detected a curious problem with some old types of jet fighters, those historically incapables of use afterburner below 7000-8000 meters or so, as:

11119 F-100D Super Sabre (Turkey)

11145 F-100A Super Sabre (Taiwan)

11146 F-100D Super Sabre (Danmark)

11147 F-100F Super Sabre (Turkey)

11622 Yak-28L Brewer B

11623 Yak-28I Brewer C

11624 Yak-28R Brewer D

 

The solution to let them without reheat speed in the HCDB 1980-2015 in very low, low and medium heights was apparently correct, but now, when testing a scenario with Yak-28, I saw the actual result is: they're correctly incapable to use reheat speed at very low, low and medium heights, but as consequence (some other strange GE effect) they're also incapable to use reheat speed at high height!

(Same effect if the plane is capable of use reheat at medium and high heights but not at low height, is converted in not afterburner capable plane at any height!).

(With some testing, another effect obtained if the plane is make capable in the DB of use reheat at low and medium heights but not at high height: the plane can use reheat speed at low and medium heights as usual, but a high height, if we select reheat speed as expected speed=0 (the plane not keeps at maximum military speed!), but at least the throttle is changed to loiter, and not too much fuel is expended ...).

As a GE related solution should be very difficult, another solution can be to add a fake reheat speed increased in 1 knot at very low/low and medium height (the GE runs well if I use the same speed values at military and reheat power at very low/low and medium heights, but I fear the AI uses the same speed but in afterburning throttle, expending fuel at too fast rate without factual increase in speed).

...As a GE related solution should be very difficult, another solution can be to add a fake reheat speed increased in 1 knot at very low/low and medium height (the GE runs well if I use the same speed values at military and reheat power at very low/low and medium heights, but I fear the AI uses the same speed but in afterburning throttle, expending fuel at too fast rate without factual increase in speed).

 

Thanks for discovering this, Enrique. I expect we will probably use the 1 knot workaround for the time being.

To make the SS-N-2 Styx and Chinese derivatives (probably also other missiles have this capability, but we don't known them yet) land-attack capables, as per historical evidence in the Indian Osa I attacks on the Pakistani coast in 1971, and I think Iraqi HY-2? Sunflower? attacking ground targets in Kuwait in 1991.

To make the SS-N-2 Styx and Chinese derivatives (probably also other missiles have this capability, but we don't known them yet) land-attack capables, as per historical evidence in the Indian Osa I attacks on the Pakistani coast in 1971, and I think Iraqi HY-2? Sunflower? attacking ground targets in Kuwait in 1991.

 

The problem with this, I think, is that the missiles were being used in a role other than what they were designed for, even if somewhat successful. In addition to the instances you mention, I am reminded of the occasion when a Canadian CF-18 pilot fired a AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile at an Iraqi patrol boat during Desert Storm. It missed, but still.

 

Any radar guided weapon can potentially be used against a land based target. When shooting at a cluster of buildings along a shoreline, or in a relatively flat and featureless desert, the chances of getting a good enough radar return are probably pretty decent. So, questions arise. Do we make all radar guided weapons capable of land attack? Since we have only one pH value to work with (for surface targets), is it fair to make an antiship weapon equally capable of conducting attacks against ships and land targets? I am thinking no.

Ok, don't worry about it, thanks Brad.

Aside the now-almost-famous RQ-170 and RQ-180, the humble Chinese PL-5E AAM, at least employed as standard small AAM in the Pakistani JF-17, as per Air Forces Monthly December 2013.

Also, in the same article about JF-17 his usual AA loadout are 2xPL-5E, 2xSD-10, and 2x1000 l DT + 2x 800 l DT, or 3x800 l DT.

Employ as AShM the C802A (no Exocet), Chinese LT-2, LT-6 and LS-6 laser or GPS guided bombs, and the Brazilian MAR-1, as anti-radar missile!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAR-1

The 2D AS air defence Long Track (P-40/1S12)(1963+) radar range should be 202 nm, not 81: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-40_radar

F-104S and F-104ASA variants are equipped with intercept loadouts with 4xSparrow/Aspide and 2xAIM-9 SideWinder, it should be in reverse 2xSparrow/Aspide and 4xAIM-9 Sidewinder.

 

Affected loadouts are:

 

57160 on entry 11153 F-104S/CI Starfighter (1970-1987?), it should be 2xAIM-7E2 (1969) + 4xAIM-9F (1969).

 

55975 on entry 10400 F-104ASA (1988-1997) and entry 11155 F-104ASA-M Starfighter (1998-2004), it should be 2xAspide AAM (1988) + 4xAIM-9L (1978).