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Originally Posted by Gorshkov
Well, DW is mainly sub-sim game in my opinion. However your options are not challenging, either. OHP can engage such rafts with gunfire only. P-3 and MH-60R can do that only using Hellfire. I don't consider firing Harpoons or LWTs against such targets as rationale. Yes, it may be some fun with searching, detecting and classifying those rafts with radar and FLIR but I am not sure this fun will be high enough because rafts are simply defenseless against regular navy even on littoral waters. Look at "Prying Mantis", "Desert Storm" and Gulf of Sidra Incident as proofs. Small coastal vessels are targets for naval air power and are good enough to engage merchants and tankers sailing without escort. Yet against blue water navy much more effective tactics is to use coastal anti-ship missiles possibly on mobile launchers. Falkland's War and INS "Hanit" fate come to mind...
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There are several land based SSM sites in LWAMI 3.10.
We are not focusing our work so much on what is changing but rather on what is being deployed by potential OPFORs.
Iran is deploying large numbers of small boats armed with ASMs, conventional or rocket torpedoes and arty rockets. Coalition and IRGCN forces mix it up routinely in the Northern Gulf with small boats.
Search and destroy/localize missions against these become very interesting when you factor in MANPADs from the armed fishing boats, dhows etc we included in 3.10. Also don't forget coastal SAMs in the Gulf, the SA-5 sites around Bandar Abbas for example.