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Schr75 -> RE: Baltic Ballet - How to? (10/15/2021 8:02:54 PM)
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Hi rusopp
I gave this scen a go last night and the way I see it, you have two options.
Fight the Russians alone and accept heavy losses, or use the US forces in Norway and crush the Russian forces without too much difficulty.
I chose option two.
At start all your JAS39´s are loaded with IRIS-T missiles instead of the much longer ranged Meteor, so I started to reload all A/C at the northern AB with Meteors. The rest was switched to quick turnaround. The JAS39 is designed to be turned around very quickly, so you can generate a lot of sorties with this option.
First get your AEW plane up on a patrol just outside range of the SA-21 battery, and at the same time setup a jamming patrol with the Compass Call from Norway in the same area.
The AEW plane will give you the locations of the Russian ships, so you can attack them at will. Officially you are still at peace with Russia, but you can easily provoke an "incident" by flying a plane into SAM range and have them fire at you. This is very "gamey" I admit but it works. Kill the ships but save as many ASM´s as possible from the southern ship as they are also capable of engaging land targets.
When the shooting starts, make sure you have a pair of F-22´s on patrol around Gotland, but outside SAM range.
There´s no point in fighting on the enemy´s terms, so let his patrols come to you and kill them one at a time. The combination of stealth and jamming should enable you to get close enough to get high Pk shots. Remember to launch replacement aircraft soon enough so that they will arrive on station before the previous pair runs out of missiles.
This should actually give you enough points to win without taking out the SA-21 site, but if you want to do it, you should use the EA-18G Growlers as jamming escort for your F-35´s carrying JASSM´s, followed closely by the WCMD carrying F-35´s. The JASSM is a stealthy missile, so the SAM site will probably not detect them until it´s too late, if you make sure there´s a ton of jamming on the same axis. And if you time it with a bunch of ASM´s from the Swedish ship, you can saturate the SAM site. Just make sure that you hit it with cluster bombs just after the cruise missiles hit, so it doesn´t have time to reload.
That´s how I did it, but I´m sure you can do it differently.
Hope this helped, and remember to never fight fair. Always maximize your advantages, and the enemy´s disadvantages.
Let me know how it goes.
Søren
PS. There´s a few more details that I´ll let you figure out for your self[;)]
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