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This night mission gives you the choice of using GBU12 laser guided bombs or AGM65D mavericks in coordination with a Reaper drone who is lasing targets for you above a dynamic armor battlefield.

JTAC will automatically designate targets for you at mission start until no more targets are available. There is no need to contact JTAC by radio. JTAC status (available targets) are available via the comms menu (backslash \). Select F10 and JTAC status to see current targeting information.

This is a good mission to practice your skills using laser guided bombs in coordination with a Reaper drone who is lasing targets for you.

JTAC will automatically designate targets for you at mission start until no more targets are available. There is no need to contact JTAC by radio. JTAC status (available targets) are available via the comms menu (backslash \). Select F10 and JTAC status to see current targeting information.

A fictional Australian aircraft carrier based on the Forrestal,
this is a Livery file and does NOT require modifying the main DCS folder.

It is a basic livery for the Forrestal, brightening lots of the deck markings, changing the Island to gray, and adding some Canadian touches to the Default Heatblur USS Forrestal.

In an alternate world under a lease agreement with the US Navy, Canada would once again have an aircraft carrier. With a strained budget, a single Forrestal-Class aircraft carrier was chosen. Not long after, the vessel was commissioned into the Canadian Armed Forces as HMCS Forrestal (CV-59).

This mission lets you practice entering random MGRS coordinates as a steerpoint, and attack targets at that point, guided by an airborne JTAC (Pontiac). Depending on the enemy ground units, you'll be asked to either use GBU-12 (guided by Pontiac) or CBU-97.

A new group of enemy units will spawn once you've cleared out your current task.

Change the loadout as you like, default is 4 x GBU-12 + 6 x CBU-97 + C/L fuel tank

You will need the free Marianas map.

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.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth R01. Due to some inaccuracies pointed out to me, I have completely redone all three liveries and updated them to a new standard, and added in three new bonus liveries depicting them later in their lives.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Prince of Wales R03.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Duke of Edinburgh R02.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth R01.