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Updated Mission planning (markdown)

Dan Albert
2021-01-01 16:07:51 -08:00
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Mission-planning.md

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### Anti-ship
**Note**: Anti-ship missions are new in DCS Liberation 2.3.
An anti-ship mission can be planned against enemy ships. The flight will rendezvous with the rest of its package and proceed to its ingress point, where it will fire its weapons at the enemy naval group. AI flights targeting a group of ships may split their weapons across multiple ships. After firing, the flight will RTB.
Many ships have significant point defenses. Large numbers of anti-ship weapons are usually needed to overwhelm the defenses.
### BAI
**Note**: BAI missions are new in DCS Liberation 2.3.
A Battlefield Air Interdiction (BAI) mission can be planned at enemy objective areas with ground vehicles. Its purpose is similar to CAS, but instead of supporting friendly troops it eliminates enemy forces before they can reach the front line. The flight will rendezvous with the rest of its package and proceed to its ingress point, where it will begin to search for its assigned targets.
### BARCAP
A BARCAP mission can be planned at any objective area, with the exception of front lines (for front line CAP, use TARCAP). Its purpose is to prevent enemy aircraft from entering the area. The flight will arrive at the target area at the package's TOT and begin a race-track pattern patrol and remain for a predefined amount of time (currently 30 minutes). The race-track will be oriented toward the nearest enemy airbase.
#### Changes in 2.3
In DCS Liberation 2.3 BARCAP has become defensive only. BARCAP missions can only be planned on friendly areas (friendly airbases, ships, and objective areas). BARCAP for enemy areas is now done by TARCAP.
A BARCAP mission can be planned at any friendly objective area. Its purpose is to prevent enemy aircraft from entering the area. The flight will arrive at the target area at the package's TOT and begin a race-track pattern patrol and remain for a predefined amount of time (currently 30 minutes). The race-track will be oriented toward the nearest enemy airbase.
### CAS
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### Fighter sweep
**Note**: Fighter sweep missions are new in DCS Liberation 2.3.
A fighter sweep mission can be planned against an enemy objective. Its purpose is to clear the target area of enemy fighters before the rest of the package arrives. The flight will move to a point near the package's join point and then proceed to engage enemy fighters on its way to the target area. The flight will RTB when it is bingo, winchester, or reaches the target area without encountering any fighters.
### OCA/Aircraft
**Note**: OCA/Aircraft missions are new in DCS Liberation 2.3.
An OCA/Aircraft mission can be planned against an enemy airfield. Its purpose is to destroy aircraft on the ground. The flight will rendezvous with the rest of its package and proceed to its ingress point, where it will begin to search for and attack grounded aircraft at the target airfield.
### OCA/Runway
**Note**: OCA/Runway missions are new in DCS Liberation 2.3.
An OCA/Runway mission can be planned against an enemy airfield. Its purpose is to damage the runway to prevent the enemy from using the airbase to launch future missions. The flight will rendezvous with the rest of its package and proceed to its ingress point before lining up with and bombing the runway. If the runway is sufficiently damaged in a single turn it will be destroyed. The amount of damage required to destroy a runway is defined by DCS.
A destroyed runway will not be usable for missions and aircraft cannot be purchased or sold until the runway is repaired. Repairing the runway takes four turns and costs $100M. The AI will attempt to repair the runway whenever they can afford to do so. If the runway is damaged again before repair is complete the repair progress will stop and need to be purchased again.
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### TARCAP
A TARCAP can be assigned to a front line. TARCAP flights behave similarly to BARCAP except that it will only remain at the target area for as long as the members of the package that are requesting an escort plan to be there. If there are no other package members, the flight will patrol for a predefined amount of time (currently 30 minutes).
#### Changes in 2.3
In DCS Liberation 2.3 TARCAP is now available on any enemy objective. The behavior from previously releases remains the same, except TARCAP flights will arrive to the objective area two minutes ahead of the rest of the package to clear the area if needed.
A TARCAP can be assigned to any enemy objective area. TARCAP flights behave similarly to BARCAP except that it will only remain at the target area for as long as the members of the package that are requesting an escort plan to be there. If there are no other package members, the flight will patrol for a predefined amount of time (currently 30 minutes). TARCAP will arrive on station 2 minutes ahead of the join time of the rest of the package to ensure coverage has been established by the time the package arrives. This means that TARCAPs are not a good choice for targets that are near enemy SAMs.