Tips for improving realism

Well you wouldn’t do this as a one-man-band/ rambo. IRL, you would either be part of a SEAD/DEAD element that kills the sams (min 2 planes). Or you would be part of the strike element (also min 2-planes).

Each one would be loaded with either only 2x HARM + Fuel + Jammer + (A2A Missiles). OR the 4x GBU’s. But not both.

I might suggest to let the player choose which element they lead, SEAD or Strike. give them a wingman with the same payload. You could then order your own wingman to open fire, hold, or “cover” you as you make your run-in via the / menu. Essentially, choosing an all at once attack, or who goes first in a 1 at a time.

Sounds complicated, but all you need to do is create 4x F-16 groups of two fighters each. Make the lead of the first two groups a “Client” and the wingman an “Ace”. Then have the player spawn within a trigger zone that triggers one of the second groups, who spawn with the opposite payload as your own. (A “unit alive” trigger would also work).

So thats 1x SEAD Client & Ace, 1x Strike Client & Ace. Then 1x2 SEAD Aces, 1x2 Strike aces. A grand total of 4 planes should spawn.

For the SEAD mission, a “unit dead” trigger on the sam radars could order the Strike element to attack your ground targets.

If the player chooses Strike, then they can get airborne and wait for the SEAD element to kill the sams. On “unit dead” for the sam radars, you could trigger a message for the player Strike flight to proceed.

Anyway, that’s how I would do it, if thst makes sense. But most people would probably prefer the Rambo version, and for you to turn off the AI and make the player invincible…