NOE is always fun, whether to sneak up on someone or test your skills. But this darbar stuff is something I've had enough of. No low level attacks, no sneaking up, no psychological warfare. It stinks! Instead of this current stuff, let's modify a few things. First off, anything BELOW 500 AGL can't be seen as a darbar or as a dot. Anything between 500 and 2,500 feet AGL shows up as a darbar. Above 2,500 feet you get your normal radar dots. Darbars should only show up near the front lines, I'd say within one grid. So around fields you've got a 12.5 mile sector covered by radar. Beyond that for one grid in every direction you get darbars. Anything farther out you get NOTHING! No more watching the darbar grow clear across the fraggin map.
Around factories, cities, and HQs we should have an entire grid of dot radar coverage. With two grids in every direction around them showing darbars. This gives a somewhat rough simulation of a stragetic defense radar net. Just like Germany and the UK had during the war.
So let's fast-forward a bit now. We've got everything I stated above, and things are getting settled. No darbars for ground vehicles or aircraft flying below 500 feet AGL (above ground level for the non-informed). Between 500 feet and 2,500 feet, you get the usual darbar which tells you something is up. Above that normal dot radar. Here's a pic showing what I mean, to avoid confusing everyone to Hell and Gone.
The radar example at the bottom shows what my proposal would look like. Darbars would show up one grid away from a field, two grids away from a strat target. Dot dar would only show enemy dots half a grid from a field, or one grid for strat targets.
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Flakbait [Delta6]
Delta 6's Flight SchoolPut the P-61B in Aces High"With all due respect Chaplian, I don't think God wants to hear from me right now.
I'm gonna go out there and remove one of His creations from this universe.
And when I get back I'm gonna drink a bottle of Scotch like it was
Chiggy von Richthofen's blood and celebrate his death."
Col. McQueen, Space: Above and Beyond