AAR DCS | Saturday Night Strike December 2022 | Operation Returning River Rapids

[Baruch.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Saturday Night Strike
Campaign of Combat Mission: Operation Returning River Rapids
Number Within Campaign: 1
Game: DCS
Server Hosted on: =7Cav= Tactical Realism 1 | SRS Req | Fox3ms.com V3-18
Date of Combat Mission: 04Dec22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0200Z
Mission Controller: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Baruch.J

Mission Summary:
For months, a special forces team has observed Russian Forces, providing intel that has helped to direct our strikes in the area. However russian forces have grown suspicious and have begun moving search parties into the region. This has resulted in diplomatic channels being closed. As a result a special operation response to limit their advance has been authorized, in addition to destroying vital infrastructure in the region to further restrict their movements and capabilities.


Pros:

• Comms were great.
• GCI/ATC was a good addition
• Great coordination between AH-64s and Transport helicopters
• Early dawn environment was great.

Cons:

• Overwhelming numbers of red-air at the start of the mission. We ran into issues pausing the mission which resulted in red-air populating the airspace while our pilots were still briefing.
• There were some issues faced with SRS, by various pilots.
• There were some issue, with public players taking roles that had been signed up for by other pilots.

Note: Multiple flights were shot down while in the process of completing their missions due to insufficient number of pilots performing combat air patrol. However, said pilots were able to reship, get back out and complete their missions.

Attendees:
7Cav Members
First Sergeant Langlois.R
Sergeant Rock.B
Corporal Noricka.R
Corporal York.K
Specialist Caliber.J
Specialist Chance.J
Specialist Ford.R
Specialist Highman.J
Specialist May.J
Specialist Mooney.S
Specialist Reese.J
Private First Class Hill.MR
Private First Class Mack.R
Private Judge.C
Private Mascio.T
Private Teachworth.D
Private Avila.D

Visitors
[269] Dr Chaos
Acrophobia
AERY 21 | 622
Bigm1171
Blade
BlueFalconActual
chad_king
dbklein
Dr Chaos
Dunlap
Flamingo 1-1 | Nomamu
Flounder
Gecko
Grunt
Havoc_3K
QAQ
Rooster
Vulture1-2 Rich
Wesm

If I missed you on this list please send a PM to Chief Warrant Officer 2 Baruch.J

 

[Noricka.R]

COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Pros:

• Comms were great.
• GCI/ATC was a good addition
• Great coordination between AH-64s and Transport helicopters
• Early dawn environment was great.

Cons: and suggestions

• S3 needs to have the server up and running at least 45 minutes before Mission start
  S3 and flight leads will have the chance to get on the server and look for issues reporting them so we can fix them ASAP
• We can try to round up visitors and get them on discord and srs to join the operation
• We could have a “STAND TO” at 0130 hours for the mission brief which means Pilots should be ready at 0130 hours to start the brief
• After the end of the briefing there will be ” MAN YOUR AIRCRAFT “ At that time every pilot will log into the [ paused server as a spectator ]
• The mission controller using sign up sheet will send in flight leads and flight elements controlling the process and then assign the visitors to open slots this order should copy and mimic the mission launch sequence
• Once this is settled the Mission controller can have the server unpaused and start the operation
• There's no established order for takeoff times on an operation they're determined by the mission Commander but normally combat Air Patrol aircraft take off first there also can be a fighter escort element that flies in front of the strike package on the way to the Target area
  
  
• The F-18 and the F-16 are both multi-role fighter aircraft they can carry bombs for a strike Mission and also carry air-to-air ordinance they were designed and expected to sometimes fight their way into the target area the mission Builders plan for this I believe if we're going to have a lot of counter red air then there's no reason why all the flights can't take off in the air to air mode clear the skies established air superiority return to base to rearm and refuel or only one strike flight the CAP and fighter sweep RTB and carry out a strike mission only limitation is time

Attendees: CROW FLIGHT

• Corporal Noricka.R flt lead
• Corporal York.K
• Specialist Reese.J
• Specialist Chance.J Element Lead
• Specialist Highman.J
• [269] Dr Chaos

 

[Avila.D]

Pros:

• Comms were great.
• Overall great team work.
• Time to target was balanced well.
• Weather was good.
• We were able to complete side objectives despite obstacles to overcome.

Cons:

• Heavy enemy air presence that seemed to overwhelm friendly CAP.
• Heavy SAM threat that seemed to overwhelm friendly SEAD.
• We didn't get to blow up our bridges reference the heavy enemy air presence and SAM threat.

Attendees: BERETTA FLIGHT
Private Avila.D
Private Judge.C

 

[May.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Saturday Night Strike
Campaign of Combat Mission: Operation Returning River Rapids
Number Within Campaign: 1
Game: DCS
Server Hosted on: =7Cav= Tactical Realism 1 | SRS Req | Fox3ms.com V3-18
Date of Combat Mission: 04Dec22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0200Z
Mission Controller: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Baruch.J

Pros:

• Comms were better
• great team work.
• targets destroyed 7 hits on ships with Harpoon
• 3 enemy aircraft destroyed

Cons:

• Heavy enemy air presence that at first overwhelmed CAP.
• public players need to be on discord and srs

Attendees: Squid flt
Specialist May.J flt lead
Specialist Ford.R
Private First Class Hill.MR Element Lead
Private First Class Mack.R

 

[Xinos.T]

LOCKED
Assigned Angelos.G for processing

 

[Angelos.G]

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