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What's the largest strike you've ordered? - 1/22/2022 2:10:28 PM

maverick3320

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I'm finishing up with the Indian Fury 5 scenario. For those unfamiliar with it, the player is given a large number of assets (including the Saratoga CVBG and a lot of land-based air) to take the fight to a combined Soviet/Iranian force in the Persian Gulf. The year is 1994 so AMRAAMs, HARM Bs, and GBUs are the "advanced" weaponry of the time. Four days into the five day scenario I'm mostly mopping up, and more for fun than any operational reason I've decided to launch a massive airstrike on Shiraz airbase in Iran before the scenario expires. Here's my force breakdown:

Escort (very little anticipated enemy air), 10 aircraft:
4x F-15C (24x AMRAAM)
2x F-16/40 (8x AMRAAM)
4x F-14B (16x Phoenix)

Support, 9 aircraft:
1x E-3 AWACs
1x EC-130 Compass Call ECM
3x Prowler ECM
1x EP-3 Aries ELINT
1x Mirage 2000-8 SLAR
1x Mirage 2000-8 recon
1x U-2R

SEAD (one degraded SA-10, one SA-11, several SA-6, a few Rapier Blindfires), 12 aircraft:
4x Mirage F.1CK-2 (4x ARMAT)
1x Tornado (5x ALARM)
5x F-16/50 (10x HARM)
1x A-6E (4x HARM)
1x F-18C (2x HARM)

Strike, 103 aircraft:
16x Skyhawk (46x Mk82 500lb, 13x Mk83 1000lb)
1x Tornado (2x GBU 24B/B)
2x Tornado (16x Mk18 1000lb)
1x Tornado (2x CPU-123)
4x Jaguar A (16x 400kg)
1x F-15E (2x GBU-24A/B)
1x F-15E (4x GBU-10G/B)
9x Mirage F.1CK-2 (54x 250kg)
3x F-16/40 (6x GBU-24/B)
3x F-16/40 (6x Maverick)
2x F-16/40 (4x Rockeye)
1x F-16/40 (2x GBU-24A/B)
5x F-16/40 (10x GBU-10J/B)
5x F-18C (10x Maverick)
2x F-18C (4x Walleye)
2x F-18C (8x TALD)
2x F-18C (4x SLAM)
4x F-18C (4x Mk84 2000lb)
4x F-18C (8x CPAM cluster)
2x F-18C (8x Mk83 1000lb)
4x F-18C (8x GBU-10J/B)
2x F-18C (4x GBU-16)
2x Mirage 5AD (8x Mk82 500lb)
2x Mirage 5AD (4x Mk83 1000lb)
2x F-5E (8x Mk82 500lb)
2x F-5E (4x Mk83 1000lb)
2x A-6E (8x GBU-10G/B)
5x A-6E (20x SLAM)
3x Mirage F.1CT (12x 250kg)
2x Mirage F.1EDA (12x 250kg)
5x Mirage 2000-8 (20x 250kg)
2x Mirage 2000-8 (4x BGL-1000 LGB)

134 aircraft total (plus a preliminary strike of 16x Tomahawk Blk II to get the enemy radars emitting). I believe this is the largest airstrike I've ordered on a single target in this game. What's yours?

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RE: What's the largest strike you've ordered? - 1/22/2022 3:20:36 PM

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A couple of hundred in The Libya War, 1986. I don't have a breakdown but it was a massive first strike.

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RE: What's the largest strike you've ordered? - 1/22/2022 3:37:58 PM

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~120 strike as I recall, mostly just see if it would handle it ok, it did. It's rare I actually put that many in one strike mission though (for targeting reasons they are usually broken up into smaller). In terms of most munitions in the air at once...pfft idk I know I've had ~1000+ guided munitions (90% cruise missiles) airborne at once more than a couple times, not that i recommend it if you can avoid it or have the rig to support it without crawling.

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RE: What's the largest strike you've ordered? - 1/22/2022 4:02:48 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: BeirutDude

A couple of hundred in The Libya War, 1986. I don't have a breakdown but it was a massive first strike.

Just checked out this scenario - looks like a lot of fun. My compliments to the creator! I'll have to check this out in between Fury scenarios.

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RE: What's the largest strike you've ordered? - 1/22/2022 10:33:25 PM

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Not sure what my largest strike was in terms of number of aircraft, but in terms of total weapon yield I'd say this one probably is the clear leader:

SIDE: 92nd Strategic Wing
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LOSSES:
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1x B-52D Stratofortress
2x KC-135A Stratotanker

EXPENDITURES:
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37x 12.7mm/50 MG Burst [160 rnds]
2x ADM-20B Quail
6x AGM-28B Hound Dog
82x AGM-28B Hound Dog [1.3mT Nuclear]
47x B28 Strategic Bomb [1.45mT Nuclear]
5x Generic Chaff Salvo [8x Cartridges]
4x Generic Flare Salvo [4x Cartridges, Single Spectral]
9x SM-65E Atlas [W49 1.4mT Nuclear]
9x SM-65E Atlas RV [W49 1.4mT Nuclear]

Granted, the way the scenario plays out it was really a continuous series of smaller/individual strikes, but still, pretty much all the strike aircraft were in the air at the same time at some point.

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RE: What's the largest strike you've ordered? - 1/22/2022 10:38:32 PM

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You might be able to top that in Shoulder to Shoulder over Norway.

Nice strike package though..

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RE: What's the largest strike you've ordered? - 1/23/2022 7:17:01 PM

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quote:

Just checked out this scenario - looks like a lot of fun. My compliments to the creator! I'll have to check this out in between Fury scenarios.

Just the number of tankers is pretty daunting. Tanker ops are key to it. Hope you have fun.

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RE: What's the largest strike you've ordered? - 1/24/2022 9:30:16 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: BeirutDude

quote:

Just checked out this scenario - looks like a lot of fun. My compliments to the creator! I'll have to check this out in between Fury scenarios.

Just the number of tankers is pretty daunting. Tanker ops are key to it. Hope you have fun.

I saw that. Definitely necessary given the distances and ranges of the land-based air in particular.

Tankers are usually the easy part of large scenarios for me - find a good location, setup a mission with 1/3 of the tankers in the air all the time, bingo. The only manual part is "surging" tankers for large strikes, but even that usually isn't too difficult.

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