tl;dr These bitches got a missile that can find your radar SPAA using ass and eat you like a chicken nugget. And this shit is somehow older than the Tunguska and OTOMATIC.
#Overview
With the addition of the Tunguska SPAA, we bring SAMs and more proper 1980s SPAA into the field. And the results were kinda as predicted, one of the most advanced SPAA vehicles ever produced might be a little bit overkill when it comes to shooting at 1950s and 1960s aircraft. The main caveat being that 1980s-2000s ATGM helos with an 8km range were a bit too much bullshit to deal with using the current SPAA options, albeit they were able to be countered using specific gun toting SPAA, tank guns, ATGMs, and fixed wing aircraft.
But Gaijin jumped the shark and gave one nation indisputable aerial superiority within 10km of one vehicle. Most aircraft spawns aren't even 10km away from the battlefield. No shit, this is a balance problem on the level of the AH-1Z and "TV Guided" AGM-12s. So what's the counter? Luckily a whole bunch of people died to bring us this solution, SEAD.
#SEAD in a shellnut
Enemy has a radar station guiding anti air weapons. You don't like this radar station, so you and some buddies are armed with Anti-Radiation Missiles (ARMs) to take out these stations. You find a station actively using its radar, fire off a couple of missiles, and burn for home to avoid return fire. Chances are, the distances were never closer than 7km in real life, but the hit rates weren't particularly good for either side in real life.
#US SEAD
The USN and USAF probably has the largest inventory of SEAD weapons and this makes sense given how much of a threat the various Soviet SAM stations were in the 60s and continue to be. So, while I do research for the other nations in game (combining USSR/PRC, GER/FRA/ITA, and UK/JP into their own posts), take this post to get a general idea of what could be to come.
The earliest SEAD was quite literally just looking for the radar station than attacking it conventionally using normal munitions. This was about as successful as one might expect, it wasn't. A better solution was invented, air launched ARMs meant to be targeted at these problematic radar stations. Enter the Wild Weasels in 1965, the mission name for SEAD missions conducted by USAF (primarily).
#The Weapons
There are two missiles I expect to see in game, and one that probably shouldn't come to the game (yet).
AGM-45 Shrike ([Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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"Antiair warfareβs (AAWβs) primary function is to gain and maintain the degree of air superiority required for the MAGTF to conduct operations. AAW prevents the enemy from restricting MAGTF air, land, and naval operations at a given time and place."- MCWP 3-22.2, Publication by the United State Marine Corps, 2008.
With the Air Force of Deseret having largely been destroyed, the largest single threat facing our aircraft at this time is the presence of enemy anti-aircraft weapons, mostly in the form of long and short range surface-to-air missiles. While handheld launchers like the Stinger fail to pose a significant threat to high flying aircraft (primarily the B-1B, whose service ceiling is 10 km out of range of the Stinger), launchers such as the MIM-104 Patriot are capable of targeting and destroying these planes. As such, in order to enable further operations in the theatre, the following aircraft will be sent to conduct a SEAD Campaign, aimed at knocking out the bulk of Deseret's Launchers:
(All Aircraft listed have a ceiling that exceeds the range of the Stinger Missile and the Avenger Self Propelled Anti Aircraft Missile):
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30 F-16CJ
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12 B-1B Lancers
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48 F-35A, armed with 2 AIM-9X Sidewinder and 4 AGM-88 Anti-Radiation Missiles.
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24 F-22 (potentially from Alaska's 525th) in Air-to-Ground configuration, each carrying 4 A GM-88 missiles.
Thanks.
EDIT: CG updated the post. Suppression was replace with Resistance.
As for my tinfoil hat theory: either this was in fact a translation error or some kind OR, Capital Games is working on new mechanics or new mod stats and the word suppression was on their collective minds when they wrote that and let slip something we aren't supposed to know yet.
Wouldn't the Turkish government be worried that the S-400, a Russian-manufactured system, would be riddled with Russian spyware and clearly useless against Russia if a Russia-Turkey conflict broke out?
