I have the Command: Modern Operations game if you guys wanted to try to simulate something
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Just screwing around.
@Sainthood 101 Feel like u might be interested as well.
Defender:
David Sling -> North of Haifa x128 available to fire SAMs
Arrow 2 -> North of Tel Aviv x48 available to fire SAMs
Arrow 3 -> South of Tel Aviv x48 available to fire SAMs
PAC 2 GEM -> Dimona x48 available to fire SAMs
Iron Dome is also at Dimona but it won't be useful.
Keep in mind, the batteries have multiple TELs with ready to fire missiles, if the missiles are depleted from the TEL, it takes a bit of time to reload. Example: The Arrow-3
Arrow-3 has 4 TELs with 6 ready to fire missiles per TEL -> 24 ready to fire immediately, the remaining 24 (leaving a total of 48) are then reloaded onto the TELs for more firing, but their is a penalty as it takes time for the loading process.
Attacker: Fateh-110B -> 6 South Lebanon, 6 Bekaa Valley, 12 in Syria -> x24 ready to fire.
12 Missiles are fired from Lebanon, 3 minutes later 12 are fired from Syria.
Because of the seriousness of the defense, I've allowed the PAC 2 GEM weapons release authorization to 3 SAMs per incoming missile, as opposed to the standard 2 SAMs per incoming missile that will be used for the other AD batteries.
Run 1:
EXPENDITURES:
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6x Stunner
24x Arrow 3
2x Arrow 2
23x MIM-104E Patriot PAC-2 GEM+
EXPENDITURES:
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24x Fateh-110/3 A-110B [450kg HE Conventional]
Result: (3 of 24) were able to impact the site.
Whole operation lasted 10 minutes. The reloading process for the Arrow-3 would take 30 mins in the simulation.
Arrow-2, basically useless due to the David Sling position North of Haifa, and also because it's overall position is very bad for defending Dimona, and is positioned to defend Tel Aviv instead, so the Arrow-2 was not useful, and the Arrow-3 and PAC GEM were the heavy lifters.
Radars immediately detected the missile launches including the Green Pine I put in the desert.
The IADS operates automatically and with a very high degree of complexity, I feel like if I was in manual control of the IADS, I would've shifted more weight onto the David Sling, instead of putting the burden on the Arrow-3 which I needed to use conservatively. Once the Fateh's in North Lebanon and Syria climbed to high altitude the Sling was not useful. Besides that, the simulation is very complex, so much so that BAE systems in the UK have acquired this platform for simulation purposes, of course they are given a special version not available to us noobs.
If I fired another 6 missiles, the defenses would be completely depleted until the next reload period. Basically, any missiles fired within the next 20 mins would've been a guaranteed hit until this window closes. It in many ways made me think about how it would not be too difficult to fire a ton of cheap missiles, with weak guidance towards to site to force the TELs to deplete and then wave the good missiles between reload periods.