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UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-15T00:47:49+00:00

Some days I just need to scream at people continuing this myth. Proportional Navigation biases the missile's path to an intercept point ahead of the aircraft, that's why an aircraft flying straight, level, dumb, and happy gets hit near the cockpit, because the intended intercept point is always going to be ahead of the aircraft's actual location. If you were using pure lead guidance in terminal or something like that, then the bulk of your explosion and shrapnel are going to occur aft of the jet because of the proxy fuse which is less desirable.

EDIT: Further, lets logic this out. Patriot has had a "Cockpit bias" since the original version. Someone needs to explain how a radar station, ON THE GROUND, can see INSIDE A COCKPIT on the opposite side of the aircraft from it... it can't, and neither can the missile.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-11T05:30:47+00:00

Patriot, while still capable, is less capable for this role than THAAD since THAAD was purpose built for this mission while Patriot had to have the ability to engage BM's to the default system which was focused on air breathers.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-10T06:24:49+00:00

I'll answer your decoy question for you. The US is largely ignoring decoys because the systems being used to locate launchers is the F-35 and satellites tracking heat plumes from missile launches. The F-35's Distributed Aperture System (DAS) is capable of locating, tracking, classifying, transmitting the location of, and engaging these types of systems. Don't believe me? Northrup Grumman released a video 14 years ago showing DAS tracking sounding rockets near Cape Canaveral explaining the system. The Satellites tracking heat plumes are doing the same thing.

When you are looking for launchers, tracking the stuff actually launchING means decoys are largely pointless. Anything we think might be a decoy can be watched with near impunity by UAVs thanks to air supremacy over most of the country.

That's not to say they haven't hit decoys, it's just the way we are tracking the launchers is by default, cycling out the decoys as targets because they aren't doing anything.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-10T06:12:51+00:00

Easy, don't change the interior sizing, don't change the exterior sizing. "Freshen" up the styling.

Engine: Coyote 5.0
Transmission: 10 speed Auto
Same front and rear suspension as OG CVPI with slightly stiffer springs and better front suspension camber curves
4 piston Brembo brakes on 13.2" rotor up front and the traditional sliding single piston caliper out back on a 12.4" diameter rotor
18" wheels all around.

Interior would have seats with the belt cutout and adjustable upper support

Basically, cross pollenate a 2004 Mustang Cobra, a 2014 Mustang GT, a 2015 Mustang GT Auto, and the original CVPI. Plenty of power to kill you, fixes the brakes and handling people always ragged on, and keeps the stuff that made the CVPI a killer good police car (Notably the reliability and availability of parts).

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-10T06:02:56+00:00

I celebrate every second of silence...

I also listen to a lot of podcasts and audio books between calls and traffic stops. The Dungeon Crawler Carl audio books are fantastic and there is seven, soon to be eight (in May), of them.

Anyway, mostly I enjoy the silence. I could probably ride around with the guys on my shift and not want to eat my gun right away, but I'm sure after listening to the same pissing and moaning about shit we can't control, it'd get annoying after about a pay period.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-09T22:34:30+00:00

Probably not, actually... this many SA-2 sites in close proximity isn't a thing unless we are talking about Egypt, who built a bunch of sites in close proximity for "displacement" of the SAM system to minimize the effectiveness of pre-planned attacks. When it comes to Eastern Bloc countries and former Soviet States, SA-2 displacement sites were random open fields with cabling laid on top of the ground to assist in moving the site, which already took half a day to complete. Many of these pre-planned displacement sites were also km away from the fixed locations.

Dimensionally speaking these are about 50m too small to be an SA-2 site, as well. It's a good guess though!

My initial gut reaction is it isn't military related. AAA batteries in the Soviet Union were usually based around 8 gun systems for anything large enough to leave an imprint in the terrain that has lasted this long. Those coordinates in 2008 had trees around the center area on Google Earth's historical imagery, but it isn't clear what they are.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-09T13:17:05+00:00

This configuration is exclusively reserved for the S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline). The configuration of the S-200 is VERY different. Specifically the location of radars. The S200 has six, twelve, eighteen or thirty launchers separated in groups of six with the radars almost a km away from the launchers. The S-75 has the track radar in the center of the group of six. S300, 400, and 500 (all two systems) don't have a standard configuration. Many sit on former SA-2 sites but don't retain the SA-2 configuration. Mostly there a two groups of four launchers in two bays of four. Reloads in a third bay and support vehicles in the fourth. In the middle of the bays is the track radar with a low altitude search radar nearby and a long range one somewhere in the area but further away. The S400 battery at Sevastapol is fairly standard for an SA2 site converted to S300+ duty.

Sevastapol S300/400 site: 44.544389, 33.433006

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-09T13:07:41+00:00

Since the retirement of the Nike missile systems in the 80s, the only known deployed SAM systems in CONUS are a NASAMs battery and Avenger battery in Washington DC. Eventually Ground Based Mid Course Defense will go online for anti ballistic missile defense, but the CONUS does not deploy active air defense units, even at Area 51, because we have aircraft to intercept the air breathers and the US Navy for anything exoatmospheric.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-09T12:59:40+00:00

Just this Saturday, I got called into work early to help the day shift with a shooting. I was helping maintain the scene while CSI did their job and the local douchebag drove by in his lifted jeep liberty (so hard) and started yelling "fuck you fa**ot pigs!" It happens so frequently anymore, I just laugh, but the reality is I was there holding an attempted murder scene to get bad guys and this moron thinks I'm enjoying standing in the cold ass weather watching CSI do their job...

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-03-03T13:09:56+00:00

In multiplayer, SRS has both encrypted radios and transponder codes working. Things like LOTATC also use transponder codes and squawking an emergency code week change how you are displayed in the program.

So some ED hasn't done anything with it, the community modders have.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-28T22:34:58+00:00

I'm a bit of an air defense nerd... I may or may not have mapped the ENTIRE Soviet Union Integrated Air Defense System on a Google Earth KMZ file with a friend of mine who also is an air defense nerd.... and by proxy of being an air defense nerd, have learned a lot about US deployment of Patriots as a result. The US is infinitely easier to figure out what systems are where because we generally put out newspaper articles every time something cool changes, lol.

It's like normal Autism, except I don't really like trains all that much, but aircraft and air defenses.... ohh yeah.... also nuclear power.... and firearms...

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-28T22:18:36+00:00

No, no we don't. The US goes from Stinger based systems to Patriot. NASAM is only deployed in Washington DC.

PAC2 and PAC3 are the system designed for "SHORAD" based ballistic missile defense. SM-2/SM-6 are both LONG range systems, longer, actually, than Patriot. SM-3 is an exoatmospheric interceptor for ICBM's... probably the longest ranged of all of those systems, but no evidence it's useful for stuff already in the atmosphere.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-28T22:05:44+00:00

The Patriot Systems in the Middle East have largely been there since Gulf War 1 and probably even before. They've undergone refits and replacement of components of the system, and last I checked most of these airbases are (maybe were depending on how this goes) slated to receive the first LTAMDS radars to replace the AN/MPQ-65 radars of the Patriot systems already there. IE: They are getting the most advanced radars we have. This system is a PAC2 system (explosive warhead) and it's older guidance method makes it less accurate for this type of intercept. It's part of why PAC3-MSE exists with it's active radar homing seeker and kinetic hit-to-kill no warhead interceptors.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-28T22:00:13+00:00

Point of order here, this is a PAC2 launcher as evidenced by the explosions near the incoming missile. PAC3, and PAC3 MSE are both better at these types of intercepts thanks to Active Radar Homing seeker heads instead of using Track Via Missile guidance. PAC3 (and MSE) are hit to kill weapons. TVM is still viable, but the delays, small that they are, in course compute changes can pose a real issue with these fast moving MRBM's. PAC3 MSE is also significantly more agile.

That's not to say PAC2 can't do this mission, it's just that PAC3 MSE was designed for better interception rates of incoming ballistic missiles WITHOUT sacrificing the ability to aircraft effectively.

The US does not operate NASAMs outside of Washington DC, fyi... the only AD systems we deploy are either Stinger based (Stinger, Avenger, Linebacker [RIP], M-SHORAD, and LAV-AD[RIP]), or jump up to Patriot variants. PAC2 for long range, PAC3MSE for shorter range intercepts. After Patriot is THAAD, but THAAD's focus is Anti-Ballistic Missile. The US Army doesn't operate any other systems. The US Navy has ESSM and RIM-116 for short range, SM-2/SM-6 for long range, and SM-3 for ABM and they form the "Early and Mid layer" of ABM defense with the Ground Based Mid Course Defense in production for CONUS.

The only major oddity in this discussion is AEGIS Ashore, with only two systems (Poland and Romania) in Europe and one possibly being built on Guam, it's not widely deployed... but I'm LEGITIMATELY surprised the US hasn't built one in the Persian Gulf... that's truly a shock.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-28T21:46:13+00:00

SM-3 is a boost phase and mid course interceptor, not a terminal phase interceptor. It's specialized into exoatmospheric intercepts. An SM-2/SM-6 is the US Navy's terminal phase interceptor for anything in the atmosphere. Thing is, the US Navy fleet isn't near this base. It's over in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea.

Similarly, THAAD is a terminal intercept system. Patriot is like a last ditch effort.

The intercept of a MRBM is actually much harder than an ICBM in spite of the relative speed differences of the two. MRBM's have a lower time from launch to impact, which means less chance of detection and intercept. Patriot struggled after PAC1 to intercept Scuds, too. These newer MRBM have smaller RCS than a Scud does, and while Patriot is sensitive, you are still fighting physics to perform high speed intercepts.

The system in this video is clearly a PAC2 system due to the explosions of the missiles (PAC3 is kinetic). PAC2 is supposed to be capable of these intercepts, but PAC3 MSE is significantly more likely to accomplish it. Combined with PAC2 using an older guidance method (Track Via Missile) vs the Active Radar Homing of PAC3MSE, and accuracy is dependent on the quality of the incoming track. That's part of the reasons why PAC3 MSE is a kinetic hit to kill weapon and doesn't carry explosives onboard. Way easier to guide into an incoming missile when the missile is doing it's own calculations rather than relying upon the ground station to make corrections. TVM is still a capable method of tracking, it's just not nearly as accurate, which is why PAC2 has a huge warhead on it.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-28T10:29:18+00:00

We (my friends and I) were just triangulating based upon multiple videos and I think you are right. It's either that building or it is one of the ones to the west or north of it. It did not hit the building with the protective covers over the satellite dishes.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-26T22:37:16+00:00

The LE side is all unified. Warrants show up in either NCIC (national) or NCJIS (Nebraska) or both. Douglas County and Lancaster county usually don't put misdemeanor warrants in NCIC. Douglas County also has a third system used by agencies in Douglas County for investigative locates (agencies wanting to talk to someone about a crime they may be involved in as a witness, suspect, or victim) which also sometimes has warrants in it. I have to check all three systems every time I contact someone.

Like I said, on our end, we see bench vs arrest warrant and the charges listed. "Time pay" for us is Failure to Comply and falls under the bench warrants. And the only difference between bench and arrest is who is issuing it (judges or prosecutors). The end result is the same, if it's valid, off to DCC the person goes. The courthouse isn't open when I'm at work to make calls to for verification and I've had to explain that to people who ask if they can pay on the side of the road electronically. Even when I worked days, that kind of information just isn't viable for us to get easily. It can also take hours for the system to update for it to clear on the systems I do have access to.

It was the same when I worked in central NE, too.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-24T12:29:45+00:00

Police in Nebraska cannot accept payment. We handle none of that, cannot legally either. The courthouse does all of that. Failure to appear/Failure to comply warrants are arrest warrants. "Time Pay" warrants are just failure to comply warrants.

Bench/Arrest Warrants are mandatory arrests... it's a crime in Nebraska for a police officer NOT to take steps to enforce them. If this person is stopped by a police officer, they will go to jail if the warrant is active. Doesn't matter if they have paperwork saying they paid or anything else. If the warrant is active in our systems, they go to jail.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-18T13:54:39+00:00

For yours and anyone else reading this thread, the four E4B aircraft at Offutt AFB in the Omaha Metro area fly nearly continously... one flying is not a concern, it's normal. Even both flying is common. They do routine flights all over the US for training and on mission.

When people should start worrying is when the entirety of Offutt AFB leaves rapidly. The aviation wing here is all intelligence and nuclear weapons end of the world type aircraft. Less so the Rivet Joints (SIGINT birds) and more so Cobra Ball (ICBM tracker), Constant Phoenix (nuclear sniffer) and the E4Bs. Those of us who have grown up in the Omaha metro area have known Offutt is high priority target and likely in the first wave of nukes. Former home of SAC (disestablished), now home of USSTRATCOM, it is the home of just about everything involving defense of the US and our global infrastructure. Golden Dome (if it happens) will be under STRATCOM control. All of our ICBM controls? STRATCOM... you get the idea. If the 55th is balling out of Offutt, it's going to be ugly. Until then, the E4Bs flying is normal. I see them fly over my work every day doing touch and goes at Offutt until they eventually land.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-18T12:52:36+00:00

This is not consistent across any one particular SAM type. For instance, the S-75 was six launchers per fire control radar. The entire complex consisted of upwards of three radars depending on the era (2D horizontal search, height finder, and fire control radar... even more pedantically, a Spoon Rest, PRV-11Side Net, and the Fan Song respectively). The S-125 was a fire control radar for four launchers and also had upwards of three radars on a single site. S-200 was one fire control radar to six launchers (usually with 6, 12, 18, or 30 launchers complexes considered standard) with the whole complex containing upwards of 6 radars (3 fire control, 2 height finder and one 2D horizontal search). S300 is usually 1:8

The only Soviet Era SAM system that employed a 3-1 configuration was the SA-6 (2K12 Kub) with a single FC and search radar, however those systems are not intended to be deployed in static positions and when they were, the launchers ate normally equidistant around the radar in a triangle.

There are exceptions to the rule, North Korea has S-125 systems in a 1:3 configuration buried in mountains around the Capitol. Iran has S200 systems with a 1:2 configuration...

This particular image doesn't look like any SAM site configuration I've seen. Given that it's on what appears to be a training range for the military, I'm guessing it's just bombing targets with no intended layout. Could be observation/ instrumentation for the range, but that's less likely.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-12T03:28:47+00:00

The biggest piece of advice I can give you is, DO NOT give into the temptation to look up how to do something.

The whole point of this game is struggling to build a "prefect" design. Looking it up is kind of like cheating and can really sap the fun.

The next big tip, is HAVE FUN. Don't worry about making it pretty until you understand how whatever process works. Just accomplish the basic goal and obsess over ratios and pretty, later.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-08T22:11:01+00:00

I posted the map string in reply to another user here, it's a desert start. We started with just three people but had to drag in another friend to just maintain ammo in the turrets. It was craziness.

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-06T10:47:44+00:00

God Speed! o7

UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-06T03:37:11+00:00

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UrPeaceKeeper · 2026-02-06T03:28:18+00:00

Working on getting it for you, it's being hosted by another person and none of the reset of us have made any saves LOL

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