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    Have a great new year everyone and go out of 2021 on a bang, like a side firing 105mm! Cleared to engage!
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    Got out to do some work with the 132nd! Mainly a flight of A-10s but squeezed an F18 quickly and a 14 to add some spice! Enjoy. STARTS IN 30 MINUTES!!!! OP Slates will immediately present a Short and sweet battlefield handover. Listen carefully as the JTAC takes the Brief, stack, mark and control. Routing and safety of flight is immediately established and its not long correlation (talk ons) with night aided devices begins, 9 lines and 5 lines are pumped out to soften the AO (Area of Operations) with LIVE MK82, 20mm from a CF-188 (C/S Kokanee "Canadian beer so you know its good") and 7.62 from door mounted machine guns on CH-146s. Once the AO is softened up a show of force and strafe passes from RW make for a safe extraction. (Please note for administrative purposes and the reality of safe practice the extraction really isnt sexy) Sorry, not sorry. Enjoy and see you all in an hour!!! RIFLE! https://youtu.be/hG2t_nwtQVM
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    This is a great tool! Thanks for putting this together.
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    Special Operations JTAC exercise in Yuma Arizona. Excellent 60 minutes of a dynamic scenario conducting close air support. Stack. 2 x Ch-146 Griffons providing CCA and lift 1 x CF-188 CAS platform. Doing NTISR and delivering 2 x LGTR simulating GBU-12 and gun runs 1 x Contracted air simulating a MQ-1 1 x CP-140 providing ISR There was a CC-130 tanker in there somewhere but I really don't care to hear about those guys on the radio provided they stay in their block!
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    Thanks, please visit the discord and let me know if you have any gray areas you'd like cleared up! Cheers.
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    not part of the educational series but a lesson in escalation of force. It begins with a show of force to let the enemy know you are there, willing to resolve the situation with kinetic means.
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    Before going kinetic, sometimes showing the belly of the B-1B up close is enough to make the baddies change their mind. Enjoy this BONE show of force prior to strikes in Oklahoma.
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    A targeting pod talk on to the next lesson in the CAS execution. Post 9 Line we are using a targeting pod to make sure both Pilot and JTAC understand what the actual target is. Please note another video should have come out before to talk on a pilots eyes. But either way this is ready now and thanks so much to 132nd.Professor for doing such a great job with this correlation and managing his flight to achieve my intent. Let me know if you like the whiteboard videos or talking to a DCS in game video! Cheers,
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    Extraction never looks anything like this! Seriously, there is a CH47 in your face. Its just a taste.
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    Some Cobra love today added to the channel. Its not live but the flight profile shows how close a guns and rockets pass actually can get! These marines are very much grunts that just happen to fly like they stole it. Love it. Enjoy.
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    Adding some AC-130W gunship love to the channel. Join the discord if you have any questions about the call for fire and or a 5 line.
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    Just a fun video to add, seeing how comfortable we were marking targets in 2011. Enjoy.
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    HI! Hot off the press. An addition to the 9 line video, populating the 9 line for specific Laser weapon employment when using a ground based laser! Any questions please ask! Next Ill follow up with BOC (bomb on coordinate) and teach a cool trick with LGBs and this method. Thanks for the support and I really hope everyone is getting something out of these.
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    Zanghabad.
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    Hi, I've been in the DCS A-10 since about 2010. Once upon a time I was a JTAC with Canadian SOF. In 2011 I had an amazing relationship with the OH-58 community. I'd like to share an intimate moment between Canadian SOF, US ODA and several bad people doing bad things. I hope this video gives everyone an idea of how to best employ the Polychop OH-58. These guys and gals had huge nuts! HUGE!!! Enjoy.
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    Hi all, As I continue with current life and studies I've decided to add a playlist of past RL experiences regarding all things Special Forces Operator and JTAC! Enjoy this HE Mark from a 81mm while a CF-18 confirms the target with this student JTAC! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c_NcH5BMXw
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    I can help you with all things AFAC but I'm not a DCS mission creator guru at all. I'm watching this closely. FYI, the F15C is an air to air fighter as opposed to the F15E which is your ground pounder. Maybe there is an error there? Cheers.
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    BMB, A lot of my work in Iraq had me seconded to an American General in norther Iraq. I learned there as a Canadian that some of these words that were "generic" to soldiers had significant meaning to scientists! For example. A pre planned strike on a house saw massive human resources from the B1 community associated to it. The pilot was not making a call at all. Structure shape, material, age etc was all considered to achieve a mathematical formula that equaled "destruction". Two GBU31 could have done the job but nah! 7 JDAMS!!! These are calculations that I will never see the definition and a secret no foreign. But rest assured SEAD is suppression and I can only imagine what dead looks like. For example, the tracks of the AAA unit must be so unrecognizable that they cant be glued back together to make the track usable again. For DCS, I suspect we are over engineering killing or simply can't appreciate it.
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    You can go nuts with this. JP 3-01, Countering Air ans Missile Threats (jcs.mil) You want to try to find the pocket sized guide J-SEAD for illustrations. Be advised to perform true SEAD (suppression) its not easy in DCS cause it's not well implemented. i.e. While you suppress an area the AAA/SAMs are distracted while you take out your actual target. DEAD is a more accurate picture of what we do in DCS IMHO as we destroy the units and there is no way they can be rebuilt later on. With SEAD again your just suppressing, not Killing, destroy, neutralize and harass. Sky is the limit with what you want to do here as noted above by bmbpdk. Use good intelligence and plan accordingly, in DCS remove air threat and then you own the sky. Thats what I would do. Hope that helps.
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    I welcome all questions. I need to keep my CAS brain working. The JTAC can give the talk on if the pilot doesn't know, however there are situations where the pilot will find the threat before the ground force. At that time the pilot would describe the threat, pass coordinates which become your line 6 and the JTAC would plot the location and make sure there are no friendlies there etc. From such a situation lines 4 and 6 readback would be "from your sensors." Line 5 as required. I have kept no records of my 9 lines for official purposes. Afghanistan had a web page we could publish BDA but no one cared for it. In Iraq I kept my own log for my own purposes cause business was good. There are bastardized 9 lines I've created and at times no briefs were passed. Just a general understanding and we needed effects right away. There are plenty of JTACs out there when their situations were scary and planes just turned in. In fact my first ever 9 line was a complete abortion, hindered the effectiveness of the A-10 and the following morning we spoke on the phone where I learned some of the most valuable points as a JTAC and A-10 employment. With regards to "so the actual order". I would say, there isn't. It depends on so many aspects of how the tactical scenario develops as I think you can appreciate from what I've been saying so far. But yes, 9 line followed by correlation "talk on", make sure you're talking about the same thing. Both ways work. At the end of the day, whatever is the fastest way works. Not all situations are the same. Gets tricky and why I love it. Be flexible. I agree coordinates "may" be best. Situation dependent. Even some pilots have read back the correct line 6 and then mistakes are made. In many blue on blue situations both pilot and JTAC deviate from procedure. Especially after numerous 9 Lines or consecutive attacks (I'm guilty of this myself "not fratricide mind you") you start cutting corners to just keep the effects coming sequentially. Hope that helps. Master the basics sequentially, then make it modular to seamlessly spray freedom on the battlefield.
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    Exil, You're not wrong. A sensor can be on a 10x10 grid location but as the pilot is zoomed out potentially they may see other "tanks". Which tank is yours? Also, generating a grid location there are numerous factors to choose. We are lucky in DCS that we can now select an incredibly precise location and download that into a JDAM. In reality this is possible with the right software. However, if I am generating a grid location off my 1;50,000 map with my fat fingers and salty sweat in my eyes, the grid I am grabbing is 6 figures at best. It'll allow for quick sensor position followed by a quick talk on. Also, I want the pilot to talk about things in the talk on I have not spoken about. If I can't see his FMV (full motion video) he needs to paint me a picture with words of what I am looking at. This will give me the warm and fuzzy we are looking at the right thing. If you can, do a laser mark for line 7 if your air crew is proficient and time isn't a factor. I've been out of the game since 2017 and never had an aircraft punch in radial data. I'll ask around to see if it is becoming common. The only guys that I ever did radial with was Marine RW. No criticism taken, this is constantly evolving and I am not the CAS god. I'll keep em coming.
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    Exil, thanks for the kind words. Glad you liked the white board! That's a really great question. I have done that with Rotary wing from a known point "Radial, 280 for 800" However this would be very challenging depending on the fast mover you had. Also, your location (800) is very far away. In the correlation video we will cover some of this with talk ons. I would not recommend this approach. I have witnessed a lot of CAS but I will never say it CAN NOT be done. From your Echo point I would just make a new 6 or 8 figure grid. I would also invite you to think about the aircrew. A B-1B crew can afford to spend time working this out, however a single F16 pilot maybe not so much. Especially with todays sensors I would always try to get the best grid location possible so that when those coordinates are entered into the TGP, when the TGP slews there they see a nice hot target ready for plinking.
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    (4) Gameplan, 9-Line/CAS Brief. DCS CAS Execution. - YouTube
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    (4) Gameplan, 9-Line/CAS Brief. DCS CAS Execution. - YouTube
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