The lay mans guide to SAM evasion in the A-10C

1. Know Your Threat

When you first enter the A.O (area of operations) you will eather see nothing on your RWR (radar warning reciver) or hear a BEEP BEEP BEEP followed by a symbol on the RWR.

Click here to see threat list and symbols [wiki.hoggit.us]

There is also another threat that will not appear on the RWR and that threat ladys and gents is the IR missle, most commonly found in the Streala and Igla launchers. The reason why IR missles do not appear on your RWR is because they look for heat rather then a radar signature. Also, knowing your threat can give you enough information to make the call to wave off and call in S.E.A.D (Suppression of Enemy Air Defences) or to handle the threat on your own.

2. Cool, Calm, And Collected

Remember this when you have detected a hostile S.A.M

Cool: Bank so that the RWR displays the threat in the 9 or 3 o clock position.

Calm: Dont panic, just fly away and make an assesment.

Collected: You have Collected the neccesary information in order to make a threat assesment and make the call to wave off and have S.E.A.D aircraft handle it or handle it with your wingman.

3. So You Have Just Been Locked On To...

So, your plane is now making a steady tone, this means that that the Air defences search RADAR has detected you and is tracking your plane. the best thing to do is to turn on your jammer and stay out of range.

4. Missle Launch!

Well, your plane has made a high piched BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP and the letter M is displayed on the RWR and its moving closer to the center . Thats the missles signautre, it wants to say hello to your A-10C. If you have your CMSP (Counter Measure Select Panel) set to semi, then your plane knows that it needs to dump chaff to evade this missle.

5. Evasion

So, your fist response might be, start dumping countermeasures and the missle will go away. No, that is not what you wanna do. You want to :

1. Find the Launch Signature

2. Wait untill the missle is close

3. Despence countermeasures & Turn to the missle

4. Reach a low altitude

5.Get out of there.

step one is the most important, because it allows all of the other steps to occur, and then it allows you to give a referance point to S.E.A.D assets.

step two sounds kind of crazy, but if you dispence the countermeasures too early, the missle wont pick them up and it will remain locked to your plane.

step three, since SAM systems missles attemept to meet you rather than directly hit you, you want to deploy countermeasures while you are turning so that you break the missles lock and force it to aquire your countermeastures rather than you.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=355215403					

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