You have a new air contact and ESM bearings. The contact is automatically classified as Blue due to the overwhelming ESM evidence.

 

I want to clarify the attack sequence:

DD - fire SM1s at 24 nm at first merchant in line behind the Sov,

FFs - fire harpoons at same time as SM1 at the Sov.

F-4s - follow harpoons and attack Sov

AB-204 - follow harpoons and attack Sov

 

Sound right?

 

Will the F-4s attempt a VLow attack run? If so, the speed is critical to the NOE/VLow crash table.

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What is the speed of the Harpoon variant the Iranians are using in knots?

 

I'd like to match speed with it at least initially. My plan is to come in at Low until either I pick up a SAM being launched on my RWR or I cross the 23nm mark from the nearest Soviet warship. At that point I may slow down and drop to Vlow and take my chances with driving into the sea. But I won't make that decision until I see what the defenders fire on.

 

As to who I attack, the Sov is the priority target. But the beauty of having piloted aircraft is I can adjust that priority based on what happens.

 

Obviously, I'll activate my ECM pods as I get within 15nm of the Sov. My plan is to climb to Medium altitude as I get to 5nm from the Sov then conduct a dive bombing attack from Medium with all six bombs from each surviving aircraft.

The attack sequence:

 

DD - fire SM1s at 24 nm at first merchant in line behind the Sov,

Missile boats - fire Harpoons at same time as SM1 at the Sov.

F-4s - follow Harpoons and attack Sov

AB-204 - Attack Sov from current position, but not following Harpoons i.e. straight line approach at VLow (this should distract at least one of the three Front Domes, preventing it from engaging the Harpoons).

 

Speed of the Harpoon variant is 561 knots.

It looks like you may not be able to fire more than 3 SM1s due to launcher firing arcs. I would like you to double check that, please.

Presumably you can just turn and launch remaining SM1 in the next ET as launcher is un-masked.

Yes, that appears to be correct. Turning to mask the fourth launcher is a good idea, it will add to the confusion.

 

Also, playing the Soviet national anthem over Guard will as well...