Setting up a custom Strike mission
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The first step is to find a target to Strike.
Here is our campaign for instance :
As you know, the small red square icons are enemy buildings or air defenses. There are multiple kinds of buildings and air defenses sites.
Choosing a building :
Before you choose a building to destroy, you should know that some of them are more valuable to the enemy. The more building the enemy has, the more reinforcement he'll receive.
The buildings that contribute most to the enemy War effort are "Oil" and "Factory", while "FARP" and "FOB" contribute less to the enemy budget.
So let's target the oil station near Sukhumi :
You can hover over the icon with the mouse to get the Building tactical identifier, here it is "JAGUAR"
Now, click on proceed to go the mission planner and choose departure from the nearby aircraft carrier :
Click on Add flight, and add a two-aircraft STRIKE flight. I'll use F/A-18C in this example.
So your flight has been created and will appear on the flight list. Add a client slot for you and head for the "Waypoints" tab in the mission planner, with your flight selected.
In waypoints tab, click on add waypoint :
In the selection box, type in "JAGUAR", the name of the objective we want to strike, and then choose the first occurrence.
Keep the "Include all objects" checkbox checked. Then click on Add
This will have created a waypoint in your flight plan for each enemy building located at objective "JAGUAR" :
Then click on take off to start DCS, and let's drop a GBU-38 on each waypoint!
