LuftWolf and Amizaur's Realism Mod Poll #13: The Stallion

[LuftWolf]

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

The case has only been made that Russia *could* do this, not that they have or soon wil. There is no compelling balance reason to do this either. The only reason advanced to do this is to prevent the Stallion from being useless as a practical matter. That alone doesn't cut it.

And I supported the changes to the UUV reducing its power to less-incredible levels.

So I am consistent!

Amizaur told me the APR-2 was originally developed for deployment on SUBROCs, but proved to be too unwieldy for the SS-N-15 or SS-N-27 and so it was converted for use on aircraft. It is conceivable that a future version of the APR would be developed as payload for the SS-N-16 if the Russian Navy had the funds and thought it would give them a better weapons platform in the submarines that could carry it.

So, I am going to begin work on LWAMI 3.06 immediately. I really appreciate everyone giving their input.

It will feature the following changes:

1) The UUV from the ATC will be imported in its entireity. That means it will have advanced controls (depth and speed), reduced sensor sensitivity, increased stealth and a range vs. speed function. This is a good opportunity to see how people react to having advanced controls without involving all the issues that come from torpedoes, practical and political.

2) The Mk60 will be added to the game (I hope it's as easy as I think it is)

3)Russian SUBROCS: The speed of the SS-N-27 ASW payload will be reduced to 45kts. The APR-3 will replace the UMGT-1 on the Stallion. I will attempt to model this weapon as precisely as possible to what is known about the real weapon. It will 1) have a circle search pattern 2) will enter the water and search at slow speed with a low noise profile, however it will search in active mode (it will take a LONG time to make a complete circle, so it almost acts like a mine with a slowly rotating search sonar), the weapon will shutdown after a single complete circle if it does not find a target 3) if it detects a contact, the torpedo will then move to 70kts and home on the target with a max range of 1.5nm 4) the torpedo will have a seeker equivalent to the seeker of the SS-N-27 payload.

Cheers,
David