AAR ARMA 3 | Operation Strike List (A/1-7 FTX)

[Robbi.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Strike List
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 13JUN21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900Z
Mission OIC: Major Robbi.J
Mission Controller: Sergeant Whitsel.M

Number of Attendees:
18

Attendees:
Colonel Tharen.R
Major Robbi.J
First Lieutenant Cosme.O
First Lieutenant Hobbs.T
Second Lieutenant Colvin.M
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Abbassi.G
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Vercin.G
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Skeith.J
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Tyrcon.L
Warrant Officer 1 Langlois.R
Sergeant Whitsel.M
Corporal Derry.B
Specialist Caliber.J
Specialist Hackel.B
Specialist Whitfield.L
Private First Class Otakar.D
Private First Class Green.M

Pros:

• Good Turnout and professional execution of responsibilities
• Promising results from new radio net usage
• Plenty to do for all parties

Cons:

• Destruction of BLUFOR from poorly executed OPFOR enemy aircraft
• Comm issues on respawn

 

[Cosme.O]

Element Callsign: Pegasus-5
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Cosme.O
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: N/A

Pros

• Cohesion
• Larger than expected turn-out
• Clean pre-flight and landing procedures
• Lots of fun

Cons

• Radio's buggy after respawn
• Russian T-50's overwhelming BLUFOR

 

[Hamm.C]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Sparrow-4
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Whitfield.L

Pro:

• Operation concept was good.
• Dagrs/Hellfires/APKWS > Hydras since they allow the co-pilot the ability to fire a precision weapon instead of just scoping/acquiring/lazing.
• Specialist Whitfield.L did an outstanding job of utilizing scope and only using the laser designator when necessary to avoid confusing/conflicting lases/paints. He also did a superior job working in the symbiotic teamwork relationship between pilot + co-pilot/gunner, assisting with navigation and most importantly expressing to the pilot what attitude/speed/altitude/aspect he needed for successful target acquisition/prosecution/engagement.

Cons:

• Comms were way too convoluted resulting in a mish-mosh of confliction and inability for some units to key up to respond. Comms should be kept pithy and with brevity in mind- especially when we do all-air assets FTXs.
• Default loadouts need to be updated. Specifically to include tool kits and ear plugs. I would also suggest that LR 152s be the primary radios by default load-out. Rotary barely ever uses 343s and if the terrain distance is an issue, they can always either pick up a 117 or use the one built in the bird.
• Tool kits should be included in default loadouts for repairs and so pylon configuration can be made in a much more expeditious manner. Quite a bit of unnecessary time was spent on pylon loadouts.
• Clearly, we need to revisit formation flying and proceed with some enhanced/additional training or remedial training/SPs dedicated to that topic.

 

[Abbassi.G]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Sparrow-1
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 4 Abbassi.G

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Otakar.D

Pro:

• Well designed op for the assets we had
• Flights performed well in conducting ISR/attack runs

Cons:

• Some preset loadout may need updating (attack rotary), was missing thing such as earplugs/toolkits etc..
• ACRE
• Fixed wing spam at the start impacting rotary operations
• Found 02 was very cluttered even with only the rotary operating on it. May have been better to just have Air Command on 02, with seperate flight nets (rotary/fw) on different, separate channels.
• Flight was slow to get organised at some poiints

 

[Hobbs.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Sparrow-5
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Hobbs.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Hobbs.T

Pro:

• Well designed op for the assets we had
• Great comms in the air (when ACRE worked)
• Formation flight went well

Cons:

• Loadouts weren't great
• ACRE issues where very frequent and inconvinient

 

[Colvin.M]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Eagle 1
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Michael Colvin

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Vercin.G
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Skeith.J
Warrant Officer 1 Tyrcon.L
Warrant Officer 1 Langlois.R
Specialist Caliber.J

Pros

• Good use of Fixed Wing elements
• Very Fun
• Perfect collaboration of platoons

Cons

• ACRE issues when respawning
• too many air targets for a ground oriented operation

 

[Ronnings.P]

LOCKED

 

[Ronnings.P]

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