The Art of Spotting - Valuable Target - Sea Power

[@sawyerbates2032]

Just a frivolous tip: if you ever see an AIM-54 missile, you know it came from an F-14 Tomcat, since they were the only planes to carry them.

[@yuudachichanel]

Its probably not a very good idea to drag an enemy fighter above your fleet because it can visually identity your fleet and help all those friget send "love" your way

[@taiko1237]

At around 38:00 Storozhevoy was doing a fantastic job of missile defense... shot down like 6 or 7 Harpoons at close range without even a CIWS system

[@knightphaeton3744]

Looks like those anti-air missiles are more dangerous to ships than anti-ship missiles :D

[@adamtruong1759]

They only have a 80 kg warhead, too, but they still somehow sank a +7,000 ton ship in 3 hits.

[@taiko1237]

You nailed the pronunciation of 'Kynda-class', possibly because it's not the actual class name (that would be Project 58, or _Grozny_-class), but rather the NATO reporting name and was therefore presumably come up with by NATO planners to be easy to say while still sounding Russian. _Storozhevoy_ was, as it happens, the ship where Valery Sablin launched his mutiny. The 'zh' sound is pronounced... I'm not sure quite how to explain it, like the English 'sh-' sound but starting from a 'Z' sound instead of an 'S' sound.

[@danielsummey4144]

God I wish you’d teach all the other people playing this game.

[@Droppedmen]

You could detect those ship with sonobuoy, so you dont have to blaring your radar and make your presence known

[@stevebarnett-f5o]

Another good vid, I played Harpoon for many years, and cannot wait to get this game, and make all the mistakes I made 30+ years ago !.

[@markstott6689]

The strangest thing is that there was a single F-14 Tomcat. Where there's a Tomcat, there's a Nimitz Class carrier. Where there's a carrier, there's your doom. Tomcats only flew from carriers. So, what was going on? 😊❤😊

[@jackcarelli]

this version 63 is super bugged, with freezing airplanes, missiles, and torpedoes.

[@BrotherMunro]

Yes I’ve encountered a few of those! It’s a pre release version so to be expected

[@Possumbaby1413]

Starting at 34:18 it looks like you are getting hit by friendly CIWS fire.

[@BrotherMunro]

Oh I didn’t spot that at all! Good catch!

[@adamtruong1759]

I wonder if anyone thought of putting EW pods on their naval helicopters, that would so useful in this game.

[@BrotherMunro]

China has popped one on a Z-10 but that’s very recent. Would make sense as they can just hover in place and blast away

[@taiko1237]

@@BrotherMunro I suspect it's because helicopters are too slow to get far enough out of the way after turning off the EW systems to avoid any active-homing SAMs that the people they were jamming may have lobbed in their general direction. EW may interfere with detecting anything _else_ , but I assume that anyone with two radar recievers a decent distance apart can figure out where a jamming aircraft is (or at least in which direction), if it's active.

[@MikeKrasnenkov]

How come a fighter at 3k feet launches a missile that is immediately at 40k feet.

[@BrotherMunro]

Sometimes the missiles do really weird things

[@trenchfighter8778]

well it was ugly but you did it good job

[@MichaelEngelhardt-w9d]

Hey Guy, the ss-n-14 Silex has an anti submarine version with a torpedo underneath, and the anti ship version carry's a bomb, not a torpedo

[@BrotherMunro]

Ahhh ok that makes sense, although I would have thought just modifying the torp to have an anti surface mode would be a lot simpler!

[@budmil324]

SS-N-14B as opposed to the SS-N-14A carries an additional 185 kg warhead built-in and an infra-red seeker, so it could attack surface ships if needed. The torpedo remained on both versions, but it was designed to explode on impact in the anti-ship mode as well.

[@budmil324]

Also, the tube underneath the carrier missile could indeed be loaded with a simple high explosive warhead or a nuclear depth charge, but loading it with a simple HE warhead would diminish it's multi-use, so it was mostly equipped with a torpedo.

[@MichaelEngelhardt-w9d]

@@budmil324 You're right I missed that detail, but uses this version the torpedo in a traditional way and drops it in front of the target or smashs it into the hull of the ship ?

[@MichaelEngelhardt-w9d]

@@budmil324 All right 👍

[@Yukipisu]

You see comrade We attach torpedo to missile and fly it into enemy boat I don’t know how it workes in real life but in game the missile flies into enemy ships acting as a normal anti ship missile When firing at a sub it will drop it and does normal torpedo things

[@BrotherMunro]

Huh - oh well I guess it does work 😅

[@budmil324]

The SS-N-14B is equipped with an additional 185 kg HE warhead built-in and an infra-red seeker, so it could alternatively engage surface ships. The torpedo onboard is also designed to explode on such impact with it's 100 kg warhead. It's primary use is still anti-submarine, it's simply meant to add a rudimentary ability to engage surface ships if need be.

[@taiko1237]

@@budmil324 I believe the torpedo (on an SS-N-14A) can theoretically engage surface ships as well as submarines, although that doesn't appear to be the case in Sea Power.