Human Red Air

PURPOSE

• The Purpose of Humans playing on Red Air in UOAF BMS events IS:
  • To enhance training/experience for Blue
  • To slot everyone when more players show up than fragged slots
  • To fly and die
    

• The Purpose of Humans playing on Red Air in UOAF events IS NOT:
  • To max attrit Blue Air Players
  • To play "tricks" to try and win (NOE, SuperHigh/Fast, etc)
  • To win at all costs
  • To maximize fun for Red Air

EMPLOYMENT PRINCIPLES

These are standard employment principles. If you have contracted a specific behavior/tactic in support of blue, then do that!!!

• RADAR
  • If you can take a STT RADAR lock
    • Take it (closest contact to furthest)
    • Try to drive a Blue Defensive Reaction
    • After 10-15 seconds, Drop the lock and lock the next closest contact
• NOT SHOOTING
  • Demonstrate WEZ (capture it on OBS/etc if you can, post pictures/video for debrief/bragging value)
  • In a merge, Gain/Maintain Control Position
    • Try to drive Blue Air Player Defensive Maneuvering
    • Try to drive Blue Air to use Teamwork to DeLouse (this results in you, red air, getting killed)
• SHOOTING (can be beneficial, gives smoke trail, gives launch/missile warning on opponent RWR)
  • ARH Missile (Fox 3): Fire it outside of envelope (Low PK shot) or Snip it before Husky
  • SARH Missile (Fox 1): Snip it before Impact
  • Heater Missile (Fox 2): Fire it outside of RMax and/or without tone
  • Guns: Place shots across the bow, where the defending fighter will see the tracers
  • A/S: If you are playing a striker... And you get WEZ, Strike your target!!!
• CATM
  • If you are loaded with CATM munitions, then let em fly!!!
• DEFENSIVE MANEUVERING
  • Perform standard defensive maneuvers
  • DO take advantage of your jet's capabilities (i.e. twin engine, big thrust)
  • Use standard counter measures
  • Avoid super "gamey" reactions (flanker pull-up, etc)
• OFFENSIVE MANEUVERING
  • Perform Standard Tactics (Offsets, Brackets, Splits, Grinders, etc)
  • Punish / Press against Blue Air Mistakes
  • Avoid super "gamey" offenses (ambush)
• JAMMING
  • Use standard/briefed ECM

FLIGHT BRIEFING AND SETUP

• TEAM OR SINGLE?
  • If more than 1 Red Air, will you fight as a team? Or spawn into flights and go single?
• SPAWNING
  • If spawning into existing/pre-fragged Red Air Flights, take the lowest seats first (#4, #3)
  • Let the AI drive the flight/element (switch off of the AI flight frequency, for your own sanity)
  • If fragging flights, frag human slots only, do not take red AI with you
  • If not flying in F-16's
    • Consider deleting the cockpit model to show an F-16 cockpit
    • The standard F-16 CMS buttons don't always map to adversary aircraft (like Mig29) - use "CTRL ," for dropping chaff, and "CTRL ." for dropping flares.
• COMMS
  • Decide if you want to use Discord
  • If you want to use UHF/VHF, agree on a frequency to manually dial in (i.e. 234.0 / 123.0)
• TACAN
  • Stay off of the Blue Air TACAN blocks (15/78 - 19/82) Use something like 25/88 or 35/98.
• DATALINK
  • Check the briefing before you launch for your DataLink bracket. Should not conflict with Blue Air.
• RESPAWNING
  • If you get killed, you have to exit BMS to the desktop (kill IVC) and come back