GCI Ground Control Intercept
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Hey guys, I’ve been searching through the forums and have not been able to find the answer to this.
My buddy and I will be getting into BMS again here soon, and I was wondering if destroying EW radars has any effect on the enemy’s GCI capabilities. I was brainstorming tactics for when we start the Israel campaign, and naturally, destroying GCI fighter vectoring capabilities came to mind. Anyone have the answer?
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I would suspect not, as I recall reading elsewhere that IADS is not modeled in BMS.
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Curious. I just read on some site somewhere that the 2d map radar information is generated by everything friendly radars can see (which makes sense). Am I correct in assuming that the enemy’s electronic order of battle DOESN’T follow the same logic? How would they have no fog of war?
This would be a bummer. I was having such great fantasies of ELINT missions and plotting SAMS using bearings and the HAS
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Don’t confuse order of battle with tactics…the OOB may yet be the same, but tactics will likely differ. It’s only an approximation of RL…a good one, but still an approximation.
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I would suspect not, as I recall reading elsewhere that IADS is not modeled in BMS.
I thought that thread did say that enemy fighters are scrambled off of EW/AWACS detections?
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I thought that thread did say that enemy fighters are scrambled off of EW/AWACS detections?
My understanding was that GCI was somewhat modeled in that fighters would be scrambled/vectored if you were picked up on radar (including EW airport etc radars), but that IADS was not in the sense that SAMs use their own radar and can’t get tracking info from other sources
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Destroying EW radars does work to prevent scrambles. If the enemy AI cannot spot you, it won trigger scramble missions.
SAM units using this EW network to maintain EMCON or any other ‘advanced’ tactics is what is not modeled so far.
