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darknite -> RE: How to beat the computer opponent (12/14/2010 6:54:37 PM)
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The DB for HUCE has the AIM-120 significantly outranged by OPFOR missiles (AA-10C, Meteor, AA-12 update, etc). You need to be very canny on you run air combat in these instances or risk losing your aircraft if playing the US/NATO. My current strategy has worked pretty well and is associated with HUCE's implicit CEC capability (ie, use offboard sensors for firing solutions). Here's how it works...
1) Detect the enemy's aircraft. This can be done in a variety of ways and is often a synthesis of different capabilities - AWACS, ESM platforms, ground-based radar, etc - but NOT your fighter a/c's radar.
2) Degrade your opponent's radar capability with EW aircraft. Get that little 'jamming lightning bolt' going over closing opponent's air superiority a/c.
3) The trick is to get your fighters into range to launch their Slammers without being fired upon and then escape. You do this by not having them DETECTED. Jamming opposing fighter's radar allows you to get into range without being detected (See 2 above). VSmall/Stealthy fighters can often do this against many opponents without needing jamming (depends on the enemy's radar).
4) Using the fighter a/c's radar raises the chances of their detection immensely - so use offboard and/or passive sensors only for them. Turn your intercepting a/c radars' OFF when facing superior missiles. You may have to use it to illuminate SARHs (haven't tested that in this version yet, though).
5) Launch your AMRAAMs and scram! In a closing battle (most common) get those missiles off the rail at the edge of their envelope and reverse direction away from the opposing fighter.
Examples:
F/A-18Es with AIM-120C5s with Hummer and Growler support versus SU-35Es. The Hornets are staged ahead of the jammer/AWACs and close with the inbound fighter sweep that's checking out the radiating a/c. The '35E has a very powerful radar (over 200nm) but with jamming support I am able to get the Hornets to 44nm, release missiles and reverse without being fired upon.
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F-16C Block 50/52 with AIM-120C5s with E-2T support versus J-11 (SU-27SK) with AA-10C over Taiwan. Kept the F-16s at low altitude and over Taiwan to avoid powerful ground-based radar coverage on the PRC side of the Straight. E-2T deployed just off eastern shore of Taiwan. Without jamming but with the F-16's VSmall radar size I was able to get to AIM-120C5 44nm range, launch and evade without counterfire.
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F-15K with AIM-120C5s with Boeing 737E-X AWACS support versus SU-27B with AA-10C over Korea. Used similar strategy as F-16s above. However due to the F-15's large radar signature these engagements resulted in a counter-launch and both aircraft using A/B to escape inbound AAMs. No kills, though usually the enemy a/c would bug out for home afterwards. In the same situation with KF-16s firing AIM-120As at 40nm they succeeded in getting the kill and escaping without counterfire!
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