1991 - Highway of Death

[Lace]

The remainder of displaced Iraqi ground forces are moving north from Kuwait towards Basra. They have set ablaze several hundred oil wells during their retreat. Any vehicles along MSR 80 within Kuwait or MSR 8 in Iraq is to be considered hostile and should be neutralized before they can regroup and engage coalition forces advancing from the Southwest.

Designer notes:  F/A-18As from VFA-15 flew from USS Theodore Roosevelt and engaged targets on the 25-27th February 1991 in what would become known as 'The Highway of Death'.  This scenario is inspired by these sorties and is not meant to accurately represent any single mission or attack.  Due to the limitations of DCS F/A-18Cs will be a stand in for As and DL & HMCS is disabled.  The convoy is very close to WP3 and can easily be seen on A/G RADAR.

Even though the southern part of the Iraq map does not feature any buildings it is still useable and has some decent textures.  I think for this mission it works as is.

Highway of Death.miz

[Ala12Rv-Tundra]

Testing, thanks for sharing!

[Ala12Rv-Tundra]

Right now my cockpit is for F-16 flying, so I added one client slot with air spawn with Mk82 and CBU105. Once I reached the shoreline, the amount of defenses populate the HSD.
Weather definitely plays a part. Oil rigs burning add a lot to the atmosphere. FPS were good, despite my modest PC. Once the traces began flying and RWR alive, fun and sweating increased
Thanks a lot, definitely a candidate for a mission with my virtual sqn mates with small modifications.

[Lace]

1 hour ago, Ala12Rv-Tundra said:

Right now my cockpit is for F-16 flying, so I added one client slot with air spawn with Mk82 and CBU105. Once I reached the shoreline, the amount of defenses populate the HSD.
Weather definitely plays a part. Oil rigs burning add a lot to the atmosphere. FPS were good, despite my modest PC. Once the traces began flying and RWR alive, fun and sweating increased
Thanks a lot, definitely a candidate for a mission with my virtual sqn mates with small modifications.

105s a bit 'modern' for Desert Storm, CBU-87 with CCIP and no TGP more realistic (the Hornet has Rockeyes as default), but whatever floats your boat.  I deliberately kept the cloud base low which doesn't give you much vertical to play with.  I just flew it through again tonight and there are a couple of tweaks to make, and that carrier landing is darker than the inside of a black cat, scary stuff.  Not bad for a simple little mission though.  I managed to incorporate all the new toys - fog, volumetric lighting, Iraq map, and copy & paste in the ME!

[Ala12Rv-Tundra]

12 hours ago, Lace said:

105s a bit 'modern' for Desert Storm, CBU-87 with CCIP and no TGP more realistic (the Hornet has Rockeyes as default), but whatever floats your boat.  I deliberately kept the cloud base low which doesn't give you much vertical to play with.  I just flew it through again tonight and there are a couple of tweaks to make, and that carrier landing is darker than the inside of a black cat, scary stuff.  Not bad for a simple little mission though.  I managed to incorporate all the new toys - fog, volumetric lighting, Iraq map, and copy & paste in the ME!

yes, no tgp, and will switch to CBU-87. I think F-16C from that age only carried 1 maverick per pylon, and maybe ECM underside