How to free your mission of the SAM’s

I have a headache now from those f* SAM’s :badmood: How the h* do you finish off SAM’s with the A-10A?? I’m downed every single time and it pisses me off :ranting:

And how can you identify a SAM site from the A-10A’s small TV screen? :clown_2:

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Don't waste your Mav-D's on tanks. Use them to identify and engage possible threats. You can always use your wingman for cannon fodder or to put him in trail to identify for launches. What sam site is giving you issues?

: Carefully.

(L-Y)

I gave up and started learning SEAD with the SU-25T. It has nice, shiny radiation-homing missiles!

An A-10 is not a SAM killer. Is there anything else in the mission assigned to kill those SAMs?

The tactics i use when i get an alarming sound and a SAM-Site symbol on my RWR is :

1. Get your plane as deep as possible over ground and use your automatic countermeasures.

2. Use the contours of the scenery to brake the Radar contact as long as possible.

3. If you cannot hide any longer behind hills etc. keep on flying deep !

4. Never fly straight ahead !

5. Just keep on using Chaffs and Flares and fly zick zack course until you are close enough to shoot a Maverick on that SAM Site.

6. While doing that, watch the area carefully for any Missile launches ( smoke trail of the missile start is visible from a distance ) to locate the position of the target visually.

To make it "a very little bit" easier to identfy the targets, take the AGM-65D (Infrared Variant) in your loadout instead of the Kamera ( K-Variant )

With the D-Variant you can zoom closer on the TV screen and get a better heat signature of the targets for Visual ID.

:pilotfly:Who said that it would be easy to survive as an A-10 Pilot ? :joystick:

In real conflicts the AGM-88 HARM ( High-Speed-Anti-Radiation-Missile) is used by other aircraft ( for example Tornado´s ) to neutralize the long range SAM sites, which are capable to fly very fast and long ranges.

They home on Radar signals and thats why they hit SAM Sites and other Radar Sites effectively.

Newer variants of the HARM can even locate the target even when they turn off the Radar site while the missile is on its way, by flying GPS routes to last known source of Radar contact.

I am not sure, if the A-10C ( newest version ) is capable to take some HARM rockets in its loadout and fire them against Radar Sites and SAM Sites. Anyone else can help here ?

So generally it is NOT your job to kill Long Range SAMs as an A-10A Pilot.. Now go and tell your Commanding Officer that you dont want to fly that mission :music_whistling: :smartass:

Great answers folks :D Thanks. It's a new day and new A-10A's to waste :P Will try Lightnings approach to get trough the mission :)

EDIT: Made it pass the SAM's by hiding and flying low and completed the mission :D Lost my wingman :(