Flew Mission 14 of the Rise Of The Persian Lion Story Campaign in My F/A - 18c Hornet, DCS, PC.
A Submarine Hunt Mission. Had to engage 2 Iranian Mig 29s supplied by Russia on top of the Submarine search and destroy mission. Command was not expecting the Iranians to actually launch and engage our fighters with their fighters as their airpower had been significantly reduced from various strike and destroy missions targeting their fighters and air to air weapon storage facilities prior. And thus My squad weren't carrying any AMRAAM BVR Air to Air Missiles, because our weapon configs were for attacking the Submarines with AGM 84D Harpoon with some close range infra red AIM 9x missiles only for self defense. Same with the Migs they got no BVR missiles too. Recorded parts of the mission:
Morning supercarrier catapult launch, with lots of Hornets launching:
Arrived at WP1, started the Submarine Search and Destroy mission. Turned on my Sea Radar and started scanning the area. No submarine detected. then ay 03:37 Strike contacted me, ordering me and my wingman to intercept 2 bogeys at 344, 54 nautical miles, Angels 20, weapons hold. Intercepted the bogeys, but the bogeys decided to bug out and thus no Air to Air engagement yet. Resumed my Submarine hunt. then at 07:58 Strike detected 1 submarine and gave me the coordinates. Input the coordinates and flew there. Selected and turned on my AGM 84D set it to BOL mode and POP. Found the Submarine with my Sea radar at 105, locked it and confirmed it with my FLIR and reported back to strike, Strike gave the go ahead to destroy it. Entered 10 Nautical Miles search radius for my AGM 84D with self destruction range at 50 NM from the targeted Submarine. Since the Submarine was around 40 Nautical Miles away from me, by the time I got closer to around 24 NM from it the Sub would already be at around 110-112 so I entered the bearing 111 for the AGM 84D. Checked my targeting line on my HSI, looked good. Flew closer and launched my AGM 84D Harpoon at around 25NM at 12:45. Slowed down my fighter to 270 Knots and looked at my FLIR camera to see the destruction of the Sub. Waited a bit and boom. Then at 15:50 Strike contacted me, telling me the coordinates of another Sub but that got interrupted by a sudden detected 2 Mig 29s on an attack vector towards me and my wingman and thus ordered my wingman to continue and engage the next Sub while I engaged the Migs. with no AMRAAM missiles had to go in close. The same with the Migs, they got no Long range missiles too as their airpower had been significantly reduced from various strike and destroy missions prior. Decided to go in head on with multiple AIM 9x attacks. Switched to manual AIM9x Infrared seeker targeting to allow me to quickly fire multiple AIM 9xs at them while dropping a lot of flares myself to confuse their close range infrared missiles targeting. It's risky but if you are fast enough it's doable. managed to overwhelm them Migs with my AIM9xs Splashed all MIGs. Mission Complete:
Then did a CASE I supercarrier landing. Got a pass mark, not bad. Though I got way better landing marks before lol like the CASE III nighttime landing I posted before. :