B-52 Strike

[Oswald Bastable]

I didn't see any missions with B52s so I went and hacked one up.

 

 

On their way downtown. They are suppose to hit the rail bridge but they seem to enjoy bombing residential areas instead.

 

B52 Strike mission

Edited July 29, 2009 by Oswald Bastable

[Oswald Bastable]

I modified the Going Downtown scenario in WoV

[Oswald Bastable]

Modified the mission a bit.

 

I have two flights of the NV 923rd up intercepting immediately as three flights of the NV 921st rise up from their airfield.

A flight of B52s is in route downtown after the SEAD and diversionary F-105D attacks.

 

 

Download B52 Strike 2

[Oswald Bastable]

Working on my B52 project, bombers appear right away with you behind them.

 

 

Heading out of Laos

 

 

Bombers in route "Downtown"

 

 

Bombs just short of target, many civilians killed

 

 

Photo Recon pass

 

 

Egress, lots of Flak

 

 

Ooops

[Oswald Bastable]

Decided to change the mission time to dusk, bombers coming in from the sun.

 

 

 

 

Mission file Download

[Oswald Bastable]

Bombers were able to finally hit rail bridge in Hanoi. Interesting you can see the bomb shock waves because of the dusk lighting.

 

 

 

 

 

[+dsawan]

Nice, any chance for WOE especially anti-ship

[Oswald Bastable]

Just focused on WoV at the moment. Hope to provide some full scale Linebacker missions eventually.

 

Reading a copy of

 

LINEBACKER:

The Untold Story of the Air Raids over North Vietnam

Karl J. Eschmann

 

I'll probably try to modify the mission to play in '72 next, should be a lot a Air Defense. Two other flights of 105s are still on Strike mission. I'll probably change them into SEAD or Wild Weasel,

Edited August 1, 2009 by Oswald Bastable

[Oswald Bastable]

On the Attack

 

 

Air Battle

 

 

Thud Ridge

 

 

Check 6!

 

 

Buffs over Thud Ridge

 

 

Heading Home

 

[+swambast]

At last, some good refreshing B52 Vietnam missions, great work and thanks man!

[Oswald Bastable]

Changed the mission to 1972, should be some flak over Hanoi

 

You are F-4E escort for Austin, 4 cells of B52s. Two hunter-killer groups of F-4s & F-105s precede you in SEAD missions.

 

Download Mission file

 

[+Dave]

You need some B-52Gs from 1972 in there as well.

[Oswald Bastable]

Yes Dave I agree :)

[Oswald Bastable]

Well I added some early B52Hs to the strike mission from a package in the downloads area. This isn't the newest B52s that Dave has been working on but I think he worked on this package in some capacity.

 

Everything started out OK

 

 

But then things got interesting...

 

 

At first I thought the USAF Thunderbirds had hijacked my B52s but then I realized that they were doing evasive maneuvers and probably needed to be set up as individual planes instead of a twelve plane squadron.

 

 

 

I thought some flak had gotten some of my Big Birds but closer look I realized two bombers had collided

 

 

Of course all this jigging and jagging made a horrible bomb run

 

 

[Oswald Bastable]

Updated B52 strike

 

Backed up the SEAD missions and their escorts so everyone arrives over target more at the same time.

Some of the enemy flights were flying low circles over their airfields. Tweaked them so that they get some alt.

You start behind the bombers but you probably want to use the extra fuel in your tanks to AP to the front of the attack formations.

 

Download file

[SandyC]

Brilliant pics, especially the spherical orange sunset and the pressure bursts! Spectacular air-to-air collision as well.

 

I had the same problem with the Buffs jinking and weaving and cavortin' around the sky as well when I set up big Linebacker strikes. I am away from my games machine, so this is from memory. A while back when I was making those missions, someone gave me advice in these forums about how the real formations flew in Vietnam. If I remember correctly, he said the Buffs flew line astern with vertical gaps of 500 feet between them in cells of three to avoid jetwash effects. The first bomber was lowest and the third highest. By setting each bomber as a single ship, I was able to run in large, accurate formations that flew straight and level in the correct historical formation and walked the bombs across the target (in this case a NVN airfield). It was a bit of a pain but trial and error on KMD did the trick.

 

A massed B52 strike is something majestic.

[Oswald Bastable]

Thanks for the advice Sandy

 

 

I use to enjoy in "European Air War" the large bomber formations. What a great flight sim.

[Navy81]

Every time I attempt to download the B-52 mission file (regardless of which one), I get the "page not found" screen. Do you have another location for the download?

Thanks.

 

Deke

Navy81

[+Spectre_USA]

All the pics are missing too.

 

Lost interest in a couple of months, maybe?

[Oswald Bastable]

Sorry changed my hosting

 

When I get a chance this weekend I will repost some of the missions and pics

[Oswald Bastable]

I think I got all the links fixed with my new hosting

 

Here is a new mission file, Its just you, the bombers and the enemy.

The other SEAD flights with their escorts were chewing up the NVPAF.

 

Link:B52 strike 8

 

Watch out without SEAD SAMS will be shooting

 

 

One B52 hit by SAM

 

 

Without SEAD escort Migs get some attacks in on B52s

 

Mig kills B52

 

Edited October 12, 2009 by Oswald Bastable