MBot Posted January 12, 2019 Posted January 12, 2019 Currently, only AWACS aircraft can provide over-the-horizon datalink targeting information to ships to launch anti-ship missiles such as Harpoon, SS-N-12 Sandbox or SS-N-19 Shipwreck. I suggest to add a separate Enroute Task that would allow any aircraft or helicopter designated so to provide such tarting information to ships. This would allow to use aircraft such as the Tu-142 Bear or S-3 Viking or helicopters such as Ka-27 to reconnoiter targets for ship-based ASM strikes. In addition I suggest to add a number of ASM-armed submerged submarines, for example: Oscar-class armed with SS-N-19 Shipwreck Los Angeles-class armed with Sub Harpoon These subs would be submerged and extremely simple to implement. No 3d model, no damage model, no weapons except the ASM, no sensors except the datalink for the ASM. Their only purpose would be to serve as undetectable launching point for ASM cued by the aircraft mentioned above. Combining these two very simple features would allow to set up a bigger variety of high-stakes intercept missions for the Tomcat, Hornet or Su-33: Shoot down the naval reconnaissance aircraft before it finds your carrier and initiates a sub-based anti-ship missile strike.
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