Georgian Hammer - SAM on Fam Flight

[Bersagliere81]

After steer point 4, there is a sam or IR missile shooting at you, even if you stay right on the flight plan.

 

 

Is there a way to skip fam flight?

[Snakedoc]

fly at low altitude / be ready with your CMS ;)

[d0ppler]

Or just set your CMS to AUTO and fly the route in the altitude specified.

[Yurgon]

I was curious about that when I first flew it. As I recall it, Wags responded that just because it's a fam flight doesn't mean we shouldn't be ready on our countermeasures.

[Lee1]

Carry Mavericks, use CMS, spot Sam, evade Sam, kill Sam launcher continue.

[Rongor]

The SA-8 is locking me while passing waypoint 3 already. Wags then says we will continue to the NE. The SA-8 maintains this lock. Upon reaching waypoint 4, Wags suggests to turn west. This would turn us directly towards the SA-8, which at this point even when you turn south instead will launch on you.

I find this mission narrative pretty problematic because your wingman - who supposedly introduces you to the mission area - seems totally unimpressed by the SA-8 and completely ignores the present threat.

Any player will end up confused, wondering why the wingman is providing familiarization instructions but completely ignoring the air defense threat on the RWR. The only way to avoid the SA-8 attack is to outright disregard the instructor's orders, which also regularly could mean ending up with a failed mission.

This is bad mission design in my opinion. The necessity of repeating this mission could be totally avoidable.

[Yurgon]

On 1/12/2025 at 12:20 PM, Rongor said:

The necessity of repeating this mission could be totally avoidable.

I agree; the player is not instructed to do anything other than follow the flight plan. I've asked to remove all SAMs from the mission.