VTOL VR - The Island - Mission 6 - Darkness
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- "Begin a counterattack under the cover of darkness."
An AGM-89 Anti-ship Cruise Missile is required to complete the mission. Take off from the carrier and head to the island. There will be multiple hostile air patrols above the island, but the other fighters will take care of those squadrons for you. Get high up enough to identify the radar signals coming from the bay, but stay far away enough to avoid getting locked onto. Remember to stay away from enemy fighters and SAM sites around the island. Your target should be easy to identify: on your RWR, you will see at least one radar signal named "LR" or "MC"; that's your target. Also, if you have the HUD overlay enabled, you should be able to see what looks like a discoloured green diamond among the other diamonds in the bay; that would be the calling card of the enemy's NMSS Cruiser. The NMSS Cruiser fires special missiles from its forward launch tubes. Unlike the regular SAMs encountered in previous missions, these are active-guided long-range SAMs. These rely on the deploying vehicle for homing, but activate their own internal radar systems to track their targets once they get close enough. If you find your aircraft locked onto by an LR radar, it will be important to terrain mask that radar as quickly as possible, as their missiles are much harder to defeat up-close. That being said, considering how far out in the bay the NMSS Cruiser is, attacking it by conventional tactics will be a suicide mission.
Once you've identified the target, use your TGP's GPS-S function to set a nav marker on the target's location. Then enable the Path feature on your GPS MFCD page and use your NAV page's GPS-S feature to set up a path to your target. It is recommended to set up a path of 2-3 points going around the island and hit the NMSS from the side. Once your points are in place, go back to your GPS tab and move the first waypoint (the one where the target is) down to the bottom of the list with the double-arrow buttons. If you've done everything right, you should see a series of points on the NAV map moving around the island, connected by lines, leading straight to the enemy target.
Next, move to the EQUIP tab on another MFCD and check your AGM-89's settings. Make sure your missile's Terminal setting is set to either SSEvasive or Popup. The former makes the missile less likely to get shot down, but the latter makes it more likely to sink the target. Choose wisely. Once your missile is set up, make sure the first point on your path is selected (use the single-arrow buttons on your GPS MFCD page), point towards it, select the AGM-89, point towards the highlighted GPS marker on your HUD, and fire away.
If everything goes well, your missile should vector around the island, avoid hostile CIWS, and impact the enemy NMSS Cruiser, sinking it in one hit. Once this is done, you are cleared to return to the carrier.
Objectives
Destroy the enemy's NMSS Cruiser.
Threats
NMSS Cruiser
Occasional SAM Sites
Good series, I'll watch the other campaigns if you get chance to record them. Vtol definitely isn't easy and I've found making a small mistake can make your life hard, good to have channels like yours and Ferrets.
Omg thank you for showing how the cruise missile works, i just spent two stressful hours playing peek-a-boo over the mountain tops with this LR boat, and had to stop because my headset ran out of power.
I may or may not have gone and beaten the whole campaign in one sitting after watching your videos.
I forgot how much fun these missions were
Im in this mission but my budget is lower them yours, not alloweing me to equip the 89 even if go in low fuel and without any other equipment. Is there any way to get a higher budget to do the mission?
You can only attach the AGM 89 on the bomb ports on the bottom.
It's possible to edit the user file to increase the budget.