Operation Longsword is inspired by the events of the 1983 evacuation of the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
The player will fly CAP in his F-14A Tomcat off the coast of Lebanon and ensure that the evacuation helicopters get in and out of Lebanon safely.
The mission provides an own AWACS, callsign Wizard who will provide all mission relevant data to the player.
Mission uses a lot of randomizations, so the experience will be different when flying the mission a second, third or even fourth time.
For a better immersion of the set time frame, the mission uses Heatblur's Forrestal carrier.
Mission features:
- more than five dozen high quality voice overs
- tanker support
- mission own AWACS (I recommend to use the default DCS AWACS only incase you are totally lost, for a better immersion and experience)
- Syrian and Israeli background action
- many randomizations to enhance the experience when flying the mission again
- 1 to 5 targets to engage (depending on the randoms)
- custom kneeboard pages with mission relevant data
Enjoy!
+++ update 17.09.2022 +++
v 1.0.4 - revised Forrestal deck layout by my good friend and Tomcat expert @Tomcatter87. In the previous version problems could occur with hooking up to the catapult, this is fixed.
v 1.0.5 - updated launch times of Israeli fighters and helos. Adjusted evacuation helo "approaching air space" message. Fixed wrong modulation of carrier's frequency.
