Sborka Equivalent for west?

[ENO]

Eh guys...

 

We know that Sborka extends range to Shilka, SA9 / SA13 and I think SA18 (with comms)- I'm wondering is there anything that helps extend acquisition range of the US IR SAMs and AAA?

[Eddie]

Apart from the Stinger Comm unit no. The only search & acquisition systems in DCS for the western countries belong to Patriot, Hawk and Roland.

 

Not really a lacking area either as NATO doctrine has always relied primarily on fighters to provide air defence, so there are nowhere near as many ground based air defence systems as the Russians had/have.

[ENO]

We were talking about that the other day on the server- I'm not even sure I know exactly what the comms unit for either the Igla or the Stinger does?

 

My assumption was that it tied information from other platforms into the Igla so it can engage at max range- I guess what I wasn't sure of is what kind of other platforms transmit the data? Is it all SAM / AAA platforms? I presume it's only units within the same group?

 

HAWK / PATRIOT were a bit too long ranged for the scenario I invisioned so I've been trying to hold back from deploying those. The mission I'm dabbling in isn't entirely realistic and based mostly on abundant AAA threats with low / thick cloud cover. The SAM cover is more for base protection and I didn't want to stage it SO far back that it took minutes to get in play-

 

I think I've resolved it by layering IR missiles for blue and a combination of SA11 / SA15 for red. I've also dropped the ARMs from the Tomato loadout since they serve no use in the actual mission.

[Silver_Dragon]

The old vulcan / chaparral / redeye utits use the old AN/MPQ-49 Forward Area Alerting Radar (FAAR)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/MPQ-49_Forward_Area_Alerting_Radar

 

Actualy, I think that was replaced by the AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar in a sensor platton, on the ADA batallions. That get warning alert to the Stinger / Avenger teams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/MPQ-64_Sentinel

[baltic_dragon]

We were talking about that the other day on the server- I'm not even sure I know exactly what the comms unit for either the Igla or the Stinger does?

 

My assumption was that it tied information from other platforms into the Igla so it can engage at max range- I guess what I wasn't sure of is what kind of other platforms transmit the data? Is it all SAM / AAA platforms? I presume it's only units within the same group?

 

HAWK / PATRIOT were a bit too long ranged for the scenario I invisioned so I've been trying to hold back from deploying those. The mission I'm dabbling in isn't entirely realistic and based mostly on abundant AAA threats with low / thick cloud cover. The SAM cover is more for base protection and I didn't want to stage it SO far back that it took minutes to get in play-

 

I think I've resolved it by layering IR missiles for blue and a combination of SA11 / SA15 for red. I've also dropped the ARMs from the Tomato loadout since they serve no use in the actual mission.

 

Yeah, I second that question - asked it before in other thread.