Defeating Ru Carriers

[C3PO]

What's the best way to defeat the Russian carriers with harpoons? I launched four of them and all got taken out. Admittedly, they were from the same. Does setting alternative waypoints for each work?

[G.J.S]

Swamp the carrier, absolutely monster it.

If you are trying it single ship, then all you will likely do is give the defences a chuckle.

Many missiles, from more than one direction, to arrive at almost same time. Compound the ships ability to engage all of them.

[FrostLaufeyson]

If you are going to attack a Kuznetsov with a single F18 in DCS, the Walleye is probably the best option. After a low-altitude and high-speed penetration, and throwing two Walleyes, it has less than 10% of its health remaining, and it should not have the ability to counterattack at this time. Because the Walleye is a bomb without RCS, and the damage is huge (in DCS, all weapons that are classified as bombs have no RCS, so they will not be intercepted). Before dropping Walleye, though, you'll need to fire the HARM for cover at the right moment. It will intercept HARM first to give you a chance to penetrate.

Therefore, you will find that anti-ship is a very embarrassing task in DCS, the ship has no damage model. Harpoon is a weapon used to incapacitate ships rather than sink them, so the damage is set very low, which is pretty useless in DCS. I wouldn't use harpoon if it wasn't for a rigorous realistic task.

In a real environment, you will never use a single F18 against a single carrier. Usually, the fleet is suppressed by saturated firepower, and there will be swarms of aircraft to organize the attack. I don't know much about real situation, but according to my understanding, it should be made like this. So I guess you need a lot of F18s and a lot of Harpoon to sink Kuznetsov.

[28270]

Five MK-84s in CCIP = 5% damage on a fantasy attack.

 

[ANGST]

Distract it with a drone ?

[C3PO]

12 hours ago, 28270 said:

Five MK-84s in CCIP = 5% damage on a fantasy attack.

 

Very nicely done!

[Amarok_73]

Quite easily doable in Viggen even if Kuznietsov is in breadcrumbs of Moskva and couple of other corvettes.

I am not saying this is piece of cake, but it's possilbe to sink these monsters using 2-4 RB-15F missiles for each.

[goAdA]

AGM-62 Walleye