by Leonard "Viking1" Hjalmarson

I decided to take a few shots of my HARM launches. They are quite impressive at night! By the way, there are three or four HARM modes including Self-Protect, Pre-Briefed and Target of Opportunity mode (SP includes Pullback mode.)

This engagement procedure worked very well. I completed this mission with no losses and all four of my flight returned safely to the carrier. Mind you, we didn't have to deal with any air to air action while engaging the ground targets.

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The shot above shows me inbound about three miles from the carrier. Note nose cold and ACL in the left display. The ILS HUD is up and shows that I am almost on track.

The debrief gave me a good report, with "severe damage done to the air defense sites." The detailed debrief page allows you to break down the results by aircraft and target type. The next shot shows the detailed debrief. The reason for the no hit A2G missile ratio on the part of 3 and 4 appears to be that after my wingman and I had launched 12 HARMs there were no radar targets left!

Finally, I checked out the mission recorder feature after my return to the carrier. Unfortunately, a bug in the beta prevented me from seeing the land when I zoomed the display. The display shows you a top down view of your mission, along with events logged with times in the right hand list.

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