Air defenses

:dunno: Can some one please help me in understanding how to setup a strong air defense in mission builder? For example I want to setup an air defense system to protect my airbase from all enemy air threat. The real real problem I am having is understanding what radar and what launchers to use with the radar.

Thanks all

Be careful not to go overboard. The IADS (Integrated Air Defence Systems) represented in the sim are designed to protect very large areas against the broadest range of air threats in an all-out war. It's very easy not to scale ADs properly in missions, resulting in ridiculous -- and unrealistic -- scenarios in which A-10s go up against long-range radar-guided missile systems. The Hog doesn't carry anti-radiation missiles so any realistic mission with radar-guided ADs should be also feature F-16 or Tornado SEAD flights. For missions with a more local scale, start with MANPADs, SA-9 Strelas and build up to the SA-19 Tunguska, a nasty, but relatively short-range, piece of work. Anything more powerful than that belongs on a much bigger battlefield than an airport strike.

take a look in the setup of Stuka "realistic templates" http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1338371&postcount=1

My old squadron-mate Stuka's templates are superb, but they are based on Cold War-era Russian orders of battle and are intended for scenarios involving squadron/battalion-level warfighting, usually in MP. If you are in the process of learning how to deploy local AD for a scenario such as an airport assault, I suggest not using a battalion- or company-level OOB from a template but place a few mobile AAA units and a couple of batteries of SA-9s on an airfield and test that. Then as I say work up to SA-19s and, if you are building missions with a larger commmand scale, tackle the radar-guided systems with integrated command and control systems then. Again, do not throw A-10s against these systems without SEAD if realism is what you're after.

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:dunno: Can some one please help me in understanding how to setup a strong air defense in mission builder? For example I want to setup an air defense system to protect my airbase from all enemy air threat. The real real problem I am having is understanding what radar and what launchers to use with the radar.

 

Thanks all

2x Batallions of SA-11/Hawk Sites.

4 SA-15

4 SA-13

4 Shilka

That should keep them ~15miles away. You could use some older stuff aswell, 2x SA-6, 4x SA-8, 4 x SA9 aswell.