Gunner,
I like to fly in a defensive role usually when not flying with the MAW on squads nights. I wholeheartedly agree that there are various ways to find and spoil NOE attacks that have nothing to do with involvement of a spy. I do alot of this.
This is no witch hunt ... the concern is being brought forth because we have seen an increase in our efforts to run NOE missions, spoiled by what we believe to be spys.
The MAWs' main objective, on squad nights, is to take bases. We love to do it, we do it well, and have been doing it for a long time.
As stated earlier, when we run a deep insertion NOE attack with just MAW (we all know the parameters of NOE and fly in synch to stay within those parms) and way before we trip the radar barrier, we see that dar bar grow around the target airfield, we know that someone have given up our position ... simple as that.
The idea put forth would provide true stealth for NOE missions that fly below the dar bar altitude (I believe it is 500 AGL). It wouldn't eliminate all incidents of missions failing due to spys, but it sure would eliminate the majority ... at least we believe it would.
Only possible working change I might consider is no friendly dar when below radar, not positive does it show friendlies below radar now?
HiTech ...
Your consideration for change is already implemented. Currently, when flying below radar, there is no dar bar, but all planes do show on country dot dar regardless of altitude. This is where the problem lies.
If a mission flys 4 sectors and is disciplined enough to stay below radar, then there is no dar bar, and the element of surprise is working for us. If one pilot breaks the dar bar barrier, then the mission is compromised, if seen by the enemy, and the fault lies within the mission.
The part that hurts is when you fly those 4 sectors, no one breaks dar bar, and even before you break the base radar circle, you see multiple planes upping and upping fast, you know you been given up.
We have seen cases where maybe 1 or 2 planes up at the target field, which we believe is conicidental, and we deal with the possibility of the NOE surprise not being a surpirse anymore ... such is life.
I believe the parameters for the proposed change would be ..
1) in a mission (mission editor must be used)
2) mission pilots below radar
3) no friendly/country dar bar and dot dar
I don't see any down side to this change, just dont know the effort on your part to implement it if you so choose.
