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Black Buck One - Falklands
Judge Dredd  [developer] 1 Feb, 2021 @ 1:23am
Black Buck One Development notes
I thought I would add a discussion to provide a quick walk-through of how the mission plays out. (For those who are stuck or would just like to know the content of the mission)

1. Start on an Aircraft carrier
2. Your wing man will take off
3, Player take off and head towards Tanker refuel way-point climbing to 10,000ft
4. Ask your wing man to form up
5. At about 26 miles, your wing man will spot the re-fuelling tanker, you can switch on your radar and find the tanker, this will help with tracking/locating their position.
6. At around 10-15 miles from the tanker re-fuel way-point your wing man will report a potential problem with their aircraft.
7. Between 7 and 10 miles from the way-point your wing-man will report a system failure and will RTB leaving you to complete the bombing mission.
8. The tanker will fly from your right to left and pass the tanker re-fuel way-point before turning 180 degrees on a heading back (flying from your left to right) towards the next way-point. Use your radar or TGP to locate and catch up with the tanker.
9. When you are around 2-3 miles from the tanker you will receive a message to form up, you will be given the tankers airspeed which is 425 knots.
10. Close up and re-fuel from the tanker, you will only need an engagement of around 5-7 seconds, to top up your tanks.
11. Once you have enough fuel the tanker will give you an audio message, disengage and head to the next way-point, descend to below 450ft (I would suggest 300 ft to be safe)
12. Follow the way-points which will take you over some task force command ships, when close to them you will get a message that your wing-man RTB'd safely.
13. After way-point 2 climb to 10,000 ft to start your bombing run.
14. There are multiple enemy aircraft targets situated on the runway, you will only need to bomb one of these to achieve 'superfuse' which was a code word used in the actual mission. You only need to destroy one aircraft which signifies the fact that they only needed one bomb to land on the runway in the original mission. I try and use the auto CCRP mode to produce a string of bombs across the runway in the same way the Vulcan did in the actual mission.
15. After bombs away turn right then left to watch the bombs hit the target before turning to your next way-point to the North.
16. You will hear a message that enemy aircraft have been scrambled, but don't worry there are two F-45 inbound which will deal with them. This cover was provided by Sea Harriers in the original mission.
17. Return to base after the last way-point and land on the carrier. If you need to re-fuel flick through your objectives and re-select the tanker way-point and find the tanker using your radar.

The whole mission should take no more than 30 minutes to complete. This was my first published mission and the programming took probably 7-8 hours including lots of play testing and tweaking.
Last edited by Judge Dredd; 1 Feb, 2021 @ 8:03am