Next target picked Bucuresti airstrip.
This strip is not as deep as some of my previous targets.
Orders:
Fourteen B52Hs and B2As- fire missiles at the strip.
Plan is to go back to reasonable missile usage
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Allowed aircraft to fire 2 volleys, than issued land orders.As usuall another partial volley gets off also.
Bucuresti airstripwas destroyed.One unusual note about this strike was that there was as many as 8 different missile flight paths for roughly 1/2 thier flight.
Missile loss was much less than normal .
Does having different attack paths for the missiles lessen the effectiveness of the anti-missile fire ?
This will bear looking into.
Next target picked.Podjorica airstrip.
This strip is among the deepest i have tried to atatck yet.
Orders:
Mix of twenty B52Hs and B2As- fire missiles at the strip.
Will pick amount of volleys as it plays out.
This is likely to lead to wasted missiles, but less likely for those missiles to be wasted without having destroyed the strip.
I am also trying to get at least 3 different flight paths for the missiles.
Podjorica airstrip destroyed. Missile wastage high,roughly 1/3 + most likely.
As the attack progressed i decided on 4 volleys.but again the aircraft spread out to circle the base rather randomly and 2 full volleys got off before i could get them landed.
I was only able to get 2 seperate flight paths for the missiles.But its still seemed to help.
Next target picked.Rogatica airstrip.
This strip is again,among the deepest I have tried to attack yet.There are no known surviving close airstrips or bases now.
All will be deep targets.
Orders:
Mix of nineteen B52Hs and B2As- fire missiles at the strip.
Again will try to pick the volley amount as the attack progresses.
At the begginning of this attack i find myself unhappy with the size of the volleys and only a single flight path for the missiles straight thru a known heavy anti-missile area.
Orders Updated:
Mix of twentyfive B52Hs and B2As- fire missiles at the strip.
Six more bombers added to strike.
Fully 2/3s of missiles destroyed inflight.
Rogatica airstrip reduced to 31%
No missile wastage ,but target not destroyed.
I decide to change the orders yet again and flew a Mix of 6 B52Hs and B2As out over the ocean to attack from another angle.less defended I hopes.
It was. Although no missiles got through, this was more an issue of the aircraft getting confused and attacking targets of opportunity< Which greatly fragmented the volleys.
Orders Updated:
Mix of Seven B52Hs and B2As- fire missiles at the strip
they are agian to fly an ocean route to a location east of the main anti missile defense i am encountering and volley from there.
I have double check thier orders and made sure opportunity fire was off.
Sorty succesful.Hard to control teh aircraft as they often want to go hoem while still launching thier volleys.
The volleys that iwas able to get the aircraft to launch from teh lcoation chosen were a success.
Although only 2 volleys fired, and only from 4 aicraft,many get through and Rogatica airstrip is again damaged and reduced to 12%
