What Type of Bombs and how many can sink a boat in DCS

[ruddy122]

To all you experienced Hornet Drivers in DCS

What type of weapons and how many could sink a Corvette, Frigate and Destroyer

Building Anti-Ship missions in Syria Map

[Kang]

Your mileage depends slightly (read: quite a lot) on the exact type of ship you want to destroy.

The Tarantul class corvettes are fragile enough to be done with a single Harpoon, a heavy-warhead Maverick or a 1000lbs bomb hitting it well.

[Hobel]

Am 22.11.2022 um 18:13 schrieb ruddy122:

To all you experienced Hornet Drivers in DCS

What type of weapons and how many could sink a Corvette, Frigate and Destroyer

Building Anti-Ship missions in Syria Map

Set in the editor the ships that are meant for the mission and then throw a bomb of your choice on it, this is an effort of ~5min

  The Perry class for example can be destroyed with 2gbu31pen, but it's been a while since I tested that.

Edited November 23, 2022 by Hobel

[ruddy122]

Sorry

What can I kill with two GBU-24's

I think anyship except a Carrier or Moskva or Peter the Great

[Tholozor]

Walleyes are another fantastic anti-ship weapon, especially if mobile and you need fire-and-forget.

[Annapolis81]

My biggest problem with sinking the opposition with any FA-18C weapon system-- getting past their currently very effective anti-air defenses.  Good luck.

[MARLAN_]

Harpoons worked well for me recently, pop-up mode does well vs. point defense.

The damage model is still bad so you'll need a lot of them, but that goes for any similarly sized weapon currently.

Putting a 2,000 lb LGB on them works well if you are able to fly overhead.

AGM-65F can work very well too.

[norman99]

SLAM/ER is also perfect. The man-in-the-loop final targeting control can be beneficial in a dense shipping environment, to ensure the correct target is hit. That’s something that can’t be done with a Harpoon.