Close Air Support (CAS) Material for the hardcore

[Devil 505]

A few hours ago I was running through a few training missions I had set up on the NTTR map with the F-18. I like to fly them once every other week or so to stay proficient with the air to ground capabilities of the F-18. I started thinking after watching my TacView approaches, I would really like to see my ingress/egress movements mirror the real thing when providing CAS. I know Combined Arms needs to see improvement but in the mean time, I figured I would try to start improving my tactics regarding CAS.

 

After doing a small amount of research online, I actually turned up 3 really good PDF's regarding CAS. They are all older military docs and were free to download. I highly encourage anyone who wants to learn some in depth training regarding CAS to check out the 3 PDF's I attached. VERY long reads, but well worth the time. Especially for those who like to use multiplayer servers and work as a team. These will come in real handy when we get the Apache and Hind in the near future. They cover rotor CAS, artillery support, and fixed wing.

 

Let me know what you guys think and if you have TacView and use any of these tactics, post the videos on here. OBS works real well for recording TacView so you can upload to YouTube. I will try to post a few Tac videos after setting up a few of these approaches. The new grid function on the F-18 will work well with implementing these ground attacks.

 

Any of you who are really good at making missions, please let us know on this thread if you create any using material from these documents. I would like to see some pretty realistic CAS missions come out of this if possible.

CAS PDF.pdf

CAS 2 PDF.pdf

CAS 3 PDF.pdf

[Madone]

Hey, this some very old docs! 1998/1995! The only one you should bother with in your list is the joint pub from 2014(which was already posted on the forum), but even then things change fast in CAS TTP's. I'm always looking for pilots to do CAS with, I do have some missions!