Air - Multiple Aircraft - Update weapons & systems to modern standards.

[GilbertMaximus]

Description

Request for the following to be changed/added for the:

1. UKSF Apache (uksf_air_apache_aac)
2. 3CB Wildcat (UK3CB_BAF_Wildcat_AH1_8_Armed)
3. RKSL Wildcat (rksla3_aw159_hma2)

My reasoning for the following weapons being that as they are actively in use by the British military, and have been for at least the last 3 years already, with the older weapon systems we are currently using having been near completely phased out of service by this point in 2025.

• The CRV7 rocket having been replaced exclusively with the Hydra 70, and now only employed using the guidance kit, making it into a LGR (Laser Guided Rocket), the British have however retained the warheads used on the CRV7.

The reason for its purchase and use stated by the MoD/AAC:

1. To serve as a low-cost effective, yet shorter range, alternative to the Hellfire, JAGM and Brimstone Missiles. (5-6km Vs 8km/60km)
2. The capability to carry more guided munitions per mount than would otherwise be possible with those previously mentioned systems.
3. Along with their use being driven by a desire to enhance precision targeting while also minimising collateral damage, be that while in proximity to friendlies or civilians.

I believe that from a gameplay standpoint, only the latter two points made would apply here.

• As for the new Hellfire Romeo, it was brought into service to gradually replace the multiple different types of Hellfire, and to supplement the Lima to give the Apache a One-Missile-Fits-All capability, using the Romeo equipped with a Multi-Purpose Main Charge (MC) Warhead, containing the Directional Shaped Charge from the Hellfire Kilo for top attack Anti-Tank, along with an integrated blast fragmentation sleeve for Anti-Personnel use.

To replicate the proposed new missile, I'd imagine the easiest method would be to copy the weapon profile from the Hellfire Kilo, and add the blast radius/damage & fragmentation values from the Hellfire November onto the other missile to create a multi-purpose warhead.

Weapon Systems:

1. Addition of the three CRV7-PG x19 Round rocket pod variants, serving in place of the APKWS-II (AGR-20 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System), all of which can be found on the base version of the 3CB AH-1 Apache, to be added to the UKSF Apache as pylon options.

• HEISAP warhead (High-Explosive Incendiary Semi-Armour-Piercing)
• FAT warhead (Flechette Anti-Tank)
• GPF warhead (General Purpose Flechette)

Config classname paths (CRV7):

configfile >> "CfgWeapons" >> "UK3CB_BAF_Missiles_CRV7_PG" (Is this just a base for the rockets below, or a HE-FRAG version?)

configfile >> "CfgWeapons" >> "UK3CB_BAF_Missiles_CRV7_PG_GPF"
configfile >> "CfgWeapons" >> "UK3CB_BAF_Missiles_CRV7_PG_FAT"
configfile >> "CfgWeapons" >> "UK3CB_BAF_Missiles_CRV7_PG_HEISAP"

2. AGM-114R Hellfire II (Romeo)
Warheads: Multi-function warhead (Anti-Tank/Anti-Infantry/Anti-Structure)

Config classname paths (AGM-114 Hellfire):
configfile >> "CfgWeapons" >> "UK3CB_BAF_HellfireLauncher_K"
configfile >> "CfgWeapons" >> "UK3CB_BAF_HellfireLauncher_N"

[tbeswick96]

PGs are easy
Romeos i'll have to test how well they work. Consider also the gameplay added by having to consider the loadout you need to take. If you have a does-everything weapon it's just point and click even more so

[tbeswick96]

There's also this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3612124287

[GilbertMaximus]

Okay sweet, yeah I'd thought just porting over the PGs as an already set-up weapon option, would be a lot less hassle than making a new hellfire.

As for the loadout consideration, yeah we'll still use and have need of the Radar Guided Lima's, it just gives us the ability to take one type of hellfire for the other two pylon slots, we'd still have to guide them in as the Romeo's are SACLOS.

It would also allow the drone and wildcat (plus anything else that a hellfire can mount onto) to have a full set of either 4 / 8 multi-purpose hellfire's, respectively.

And the RKSL aircraft munitions mod would be pretty interesting to use, I'm not seeing a full list of weapons in the description of it, but I do recognise a decent amount of them in the images;

I.E. Storm shadow cruise missile, Exocet AShM, a bunch of new GBUs, Air-to-Air and AGM options,
along with some actual Brimstone AGM models we can use instead of the Maverick ones currently,

It should help break up the monotony of the jet & drone loadout options, plus the ability to use them on other platforms in the modpack where appropriate too.