Mike5560 Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 So I had a mission in the Georgian Oil War campaign where I had to recon three target areas and destroy targets of opportunity. On the mission planner screen, all three target areas fall within an SA-8's engagement zone. This has happened on previous missions, and the SA-8 wasn't there, so I flew the whole mission like a boat with two KH-58Us and fuel tanks weighing me down. I only ended up taking one, and didn't think to give my wingman any since he was pretty useless in the past. I took off, and fired my KH-58u as soon as I got a spike from the SA-8. I turned away and watched the F6 view for peace of mind. Turns out that nasty Osa took out my only ARM. It ended up killing me even trying to maximize standoff from my vikhrs into the first target area. Has this been a change in one of the updates? I've played DCS hundreds of hours and never seen this happen in SP. I do know in CA this can be done if you play as an SA-8.
King_Hrothgar Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 Yeah, they've been known to do that for a while now. It's always amusing listening to A-10C drivers on the 104th server whine when a SAM knocks out half their mavericks. In any case, this is intended. Modern short ranged SAMs are specifically designed to do this type of thing. The tiny fast moving vikhrs don't normally get shot at but as you already noted, playing chicken with a SAM in a Su-25T using laser guided missiles is not generally going to end well.
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