ABS FIESTA - LOCKED EDITION

[Mr. Hurricane]

>He can't fly an aircraft through sheer force of will
GET A LOAD OF THIS CASUAL

>You can't if it's physically impossible.
No one is above physics.

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[ZombiLoin]

Are you autistic?

This is a legitimate question.

[blockguy™]

Are you autistic?

This is a legitimate question.

i think we all are

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>You can't if it's physically impossible.
No one is above physics.

>He thinks nobody is above physics
>He isn't a transcended being of pure energy, communing with a host to attain physical form and interact with the world left behind
3casual5me

[Mr. Hurricane]

Are you autistic?

This is a legitimate question.

Not by any means. I was loving around the whole time.

>He thinks nobody is above physics
>He isn't a transcended being of pure energy, communing with a host to attain physical form and interact with the world left behind
3casual5me

Quid est Veritas?

[Operator¹]

A Round-Table themed mission would be nice.

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Go pick up pizza for Valhalla.

[NoZoner]

A Round-Table themed mission would definitely allow for some ace combat to take place

... i'll go jump off a building now

[mlockha]

Obrad recieves a new, albeit smaller plane, and goes back to Vahalla.

[Operator¹]

I'm in the middle of the flight, breaking off after refueling from an allied tanker.
Thanking the crew over the radio, I continue towards Valhalla airbase, with nothing but water and sky in sight.

It sure is lonely up here, so I've been listening to a South Aesthian broadcast over my secondary radio; however, I'm still listening for any transmissions that might happen to come in, and the Hornet is fully armed, not like it will useful for a long-range return flight.

[Harm94]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_Enemy_Air_Defenses

So far this has only been tested against stuffty 3rd world armies that get dwarfed by the US Army and NATO. You can just swoop in and be like  "LOL SEAD! LOL CHAFF! LOL FLARE DUMP! LOL EVASIVE MANUEVERS! LOL STRAFING RUN" every time. Like I mentioned. If a SEAD Aircraft fire anti radar missiles, the radar teams can just flick their radars off and the Shrike, Arm, or Harm will veer off and then the radars get flicked back on and missiles are launched. Some missiles like the HARM an newer versions of the ARM will remember the position of the radar. However sometimes the enemy will use truck mounted radar or put decoys up. One example of decoys was during the Yugoslav wars where they would put salvaged mig-21 electronics out to fool SEAD aircraft.

all of the damn heatseekers get fooled by flares most of the time, I guess that's for balance because it would be too easy to shoot down everyone. (newer air-to-air missiles have this feature too, you know.)

But my electro-optical missiles. If flares worked first time everytime, everyone would have given up on infrared based missiles long ago.

If SAMs were as good in this as they are in real life then mlockha would be going through like two planes per mission. Realism doesn't equate to fun.

A little realism never hurt, too much though can. Realistically not all radar SAMs hit their targets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uh4yMAx2UA

It's possible to dodge a sam, but keep mind the sam's in the Video are really old SA-2 and SA-3 missiles which were designed for hitting spy planes and bombers and older fighter jets.

[Operator¹]

the thread isn't going to be interesting if everybody on both sides kept getting shot down by missile batteries beyond visual range

[Harm94]

the thread isn't going to be interesting if everybody on both sides kept getting shot down by missile batteries beyond visual range

Don't worry, very few of those have decent enough success rates.

[Operator¹]

I guess they decided to fund energy weapon research over ballistic missiles

then again, both sides probably have a ludicrously small amount of capable mobile anti-air batteries because they decided that it was better to go make a ton of advanced aircraft instead, the thread is [obviously] more centered on fighter craft than any other type of vehicle. It doesn't hurt to have AA batteries that shoot missiles at you every once in a while, but the entire thread isn't about SAMs. In a sense, I guess they serve a minor role overall, like attack helicopters or tanks, you don't have to worry about those shooting you down too much because there's also another guy flying a jet that can take you on just as easily. Of course, I don't believe that they would leave all of the work to their fighter squadrons to pick off aircraft out of the sky, but that's the role that the fighter aircraft serve in this thread, shooting down other aircraft so the ground forces don't have to worry about resupplying their anti-air guys as often. In a place where just deploying allied aircraft is not economical, I can understand why they'd have AA everywhere, but they probably won't deploy AA loosely on the front, mainly because they can fit an tank in that transport aircraft in the same place as that mobile AA. Where they can deploy fighter aircraft, they will deploy fighter aircraft, you can't expect a unit that's basically entirely based on anti-air duties to survive against a bunch of guys with anti-tank weapons, that's why I wouldn't expect them to be deployed in large numbers, because it's more economical to ship a truck that can carry twenty fully-equipped infantrymen and a few MANPADs than it is to ship a truck that only shoots down planes. Ace Combat also did an elite anti-air unit too, these guys do have a role but it's relatively minor in comparison to the ace squadrons that you have to fight against.

[ZombiLoin]

Simon's cell phone rings.
"Hello?"
"Hey, It's Maj. Skitzorsky from Valhalla airbase. You jet should've arrived at the Kinth airfield... I have no idea why we couldn't have just left the plane at Valhalla but whatever... and you need to report back to base ASAP. Bye."

Simon turns to the captain.
"Sorry for the interruption, but I have to go. Nice talking to you."