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* After Anchorhead Bay, the LRSSG proposes retreating to a safer location, and the former Megalith is suggested by Count as a potential safe haven, but it is passed off in favor of Tyler Island. This makes sense; Megalith, while a heavily fortified ICBM complex and an impressive fortress, is no doubt in ruins and possibly in worse shape than its counterpart Stonehenge, and additionally what little facilities it may have to service and house aircraft will not serve the LRSSG well. It is also now a repurposed drone factory, with an absolute hornet's nest of drones awaiting any one foolish enough to head there.
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* After Anchorhead Bay, the LRSSG proposes retreating to a safer location, and the former Megalith is suggested by Count as a potential safe haven, but it is passed off in favor of Tyler Island. This makes sense; Megalith, while a heavily fortified ICBM complex and an impressive fortress, is no doubt in ruins and possibly in worse shape than its counterpart Stonehenge, and additionally what little facilities it may have to service and house aircraft will not serve the LRSSG well. It is There's also now a the possibility of it having been repurposed into a drone factory, with an absolute hornet's nest of drones awaiting any one foolish enough to head there.
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* After Anchorhead Bay, the LRSSG proposes retreating to a safer location, and the former Megalith is suggested by Count as a potential safe haven, but it is passed off in favor of Tyler Island. This makes sense; Megalith, while a heavily fortified ICBM complex and an impressive fortress, is no doubt in ruins and possibly in worse shape than its counterpart Stonehenge, and additionally what little facilities it may have to service and house aircraft will not serve the LRSSG well. \n It is also now a repurposed drone factory, with an absolute hornet's nest of drones awaiting any one foolish enough to head there.
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* Erusea declares war against Osea, who is a superpower and has an impressive naval force. So how does Erusea even the odds? They ship MQ-99s in containers all over Osea, and proceed to remote launch them from their containers before Osean customs inspectors can get near the containers. The drones then spread out across the country and destroy multiple naval bases, crippling Osea's naval power and ensuring that Osea can't wield its naval might against Erusea. It's basically the Pearl Harbor attack taken UpToEleven, and successful (excluding the carrier Admiral Andersen, which was left unmolested even after getting stuck on a reef).
* Erusea relying on drones to supplement their air force makes sense; their air force was devastated in the last Continental War of 2003-2005, and while they were able to restore their air power somewhat, the implied shortage of pilots means the Eruseans had to turn to drones and converted drone fighters to fill in the holes. In fact, post Battle of Farbanti, it's heavily implied that the bulk of enemy Erusean fighters are these converted drone fighters.
* Erusea relying on drones to supplement their air force makes sense; their air force was devastated in the last Continental War of 2003-2005, and while they were able to restore their air power somewhat, the implied shortage of pilots means the Eruseans had to turn to drones and converted drone fighters to fill in the holes. In fact, post Battle of Farbanti, it's heavily implied that the bulk of enemy Erusean fighters are these converted drone fighters.
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* Erusea declares war against Osea, who is a superpower and has an impressive naval force. force (though it is technically a Maritime Defense Force, limiting its ability to project power around the world). So how does Erusea even the odds? They ship MQ-99s in containers to ports all over Osea, and proceed to remote launch them from their containers before Osean customs inspectors can get near the containers. The drones then spread out across the country country, evading Osean air defenses due to their maneuverability and destroy small size, and precisely strike multiple naval bases, crippling Osea's naval power and ensuring that Osea can't wield bring its naval might forces to bear against Erusea. It's basically the Pearl Harbor attack taken UpToEleven, and successful (excluding the carrier Admiral Andersen, which was left unmolested even after getting stuck on a reef).
reef). Several other carriers also survived due to being at sea, such as the Vulture and Kestrel II, but they are quickly sunk in the early days of the war.
* Erusea relying on drones to supplement their air force makes sense; their air force wasdevastated absolutely decimated by ISAF in the last Continental War of 2003-2005, and while they were able to restore their air power somewhat, the implied shortage of pilots means the Eruseans had to turn to drones and converted drone fighters to fill in the holes. In fact, post Battle of Farbanti, it's heavily implied that the bulk of enemy Erusean fighters are these converted drone fighters.
* Erusea relying on drones to supplement their air force makes sense; their air force was
** In addition, of all the squadron members, Bandog only asks for Full Band's position in reference to everyone, which may be why Full Band dies not long after; Count's IFF system (while everyone else's was) wasn't updated to reflect Full Band's ally status.
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* After Anchorhead Bay, the LRSSG proposes retreating to a safer location, and the former Megalith is suggested by Count as a potential safe haven, but it is passed off in favor of Tyler Island. This makes sense; Megalith, while a heavily fortified ICBM complex and an impressive fortress, is no doubt in ruins and possibly in worse shape than its counterpart Stonehenge, and additionally what little facilities it may have to service and house aircraft will be of little use
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** Thankfully, the Erusean radicals had placed all their eggs into the Belkan drone basket. basket, as well as the assumed invincibility of the Arsenal Birds. Why bother refurbishing a twenty-something-year-old rusting railgun whose power systems are most likely irreparable when you can buy up thousands of killer drones for the same amount of money? Osea counted on Erusea doing this in order to pull off the insane plan of hijacking Stonehenge. This move would then cause the Eruseans to eventually believe that the Oseans were preparing to bombard Farbanti with Stonehenge's projectiles, thus Arsenal Bird is sent to destroy Stonehenge!
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** There is another good reason for this AI behavior: EASA converted the Space Elevator's underground maintenance facility was converted into a drone factory, and the destruction of the elevator would cause debris to rain down on everyone and everything in that factory.
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* The simultaneous ASAT strikes by both the Oseans and Eruseans that knocked out satellite communications threw the continent of Usea into chaos. There's no telling what the loss of satellite communications did to the rest of Strangereal, either. Osea and Yuktobania should be okay, but smaller or isolated countries will almost certainly suffer severe economic hardships as their links to the rest of the world went up in spacedust. This is also probably the ''best'' possible outcome of the war. That's right. Because without a Kessler syndrome disaster knocking out satellite communications, the Hugin and Munin AIs could have easily hijacked any satellite communications station and broadcast themselves across the globe, thus becomming becoming '''unkillable'''. With no satellites to hijack, Hugin and Munin were forced to try and use the ISEV, which revealed them to the Osean and Conservative Erusean forces and allowed Trigger to take them down and stop their plan.
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* The simultaneous ASAT strikes by both the Oseans and Eruseans that knocked out satellite communications threw the continent of Usea into chaos. There's no telling what the loss of satellite communications did to the rest of Strangereal, either. Osea and Yuktobania should be okay, but smaller or isolated countries will almost certainly suffer severe economic hardships as their links to the rest of the world went up in spacedust. This is also probably the ''best'' possible outcome of the war. That's right. Because without a Kessler syndrome disaster knocking out satellite communications, the Huginn Hugin and Muninn Munin AIs could have easily hijacked any satellite communications station and broadcast themselves across the globe, thus becomming '''unkillable'''. With no satellites to hijack, Huginn Hugin and Muninn Munin were forced to try and use the ISEV, which revealed them the Osean and Conservative Erusean forces and allowed Trigger to take them down and stop their planplan.
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* The simultaneous ASAT strikes by both the Oseans and Eruseans that knocked out satellite communications threw the continent of Usea into chaos. There's no telling what the loss of satellite communications did to the rest of Strangereal, either. Osea and Yuktobania should be okay, but smaller or isolated countries will almost certainly suffer severe economic hardships as their links to the rest of the world went up in spacedust. This is also probably the ''best'' possible outcome of the war. That's right. Because without a Kessler syndrome disaster knocking out satellite communications, the Huginn and Muninn AIs could have easily hijacked any satellite communications station and broadcast themselves across the globe, thus becomming '''unkillable'''. With no satellites to hijack, the Huginn and Muninn AIs were forced to try and use the ISEV, which revealed them the Osean and Conservative Erusean forces and allowed Trigger to take them down and stop their plan
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** Thankfully, the Erusean radicals had placed all their eggs into the Belkan drone basket. Why bother refurbishing a twenty-something-year-old rusting railgun when you can buy up thousands of killer drones for the same amount of money? Osea counted on Erusea doing this in order to pull off the insane plan of hijacking Stonehenge. This move would then cause the Eruseans to eventually believe that the Oseans were preparing to bombard Farbanti with Stonehenge's projectiles, thus Arsenal Bird is sent to destroy Stonehenge!
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** Thankfully, the Erusean radicals had placed all their eggs into the Belkan drone basket. Why bother refurbishing a twenty-something-year-old rusting railgun when you can buy up thousands of killer drones for the same amount of money? Osea counted on Erusea doing this in order to pull off the insane plan of hijacking Stonehenge. This move would then cause the Eruseans to eventually believe that the Oseans were preparing to bombard Farbanti with Stonehenge's projectiles, thus Arsenal Bird is sent to destroy Stonehenge!Stonehenge!
* The simultaneous ASAT strikes by both the Oseans and Eruseans that knocked out satellite communications threw the continent of Usea into chaos. There's no telling what the loss of satellite communications did to the rest of Strangereal, either. Osea and Yuktobania should be okay, but smaller or isolated countries will almost certainly suffer severe economic hardships as their links to the rest of the world went up in spacedust. This is also probably the ''best'' possible outcome of the war. That's right. Because without a Kessler syndrome disaster knocking out satellite communications, the Huginn and Muninn AIs could have easily hijacked any satellite communications station and broadcast themselves across the globe, thus becomming '''unkillable'''. With no satellites to hijack, the Huginn and Muninn AIs were forced to try and use the ISEV, which revealed them the Osean and Conservative Erusean forces and allowed Trigger to take them down and stop their plan
* The simultaneous ASAT strikes by both the Oseans and Eruseans that knocked out satellite communications threw the continent of Usea into chaos. There's no telling what the loss of satellite communications did to the rest of Strangereal, either. Osea and Yuktobania should be okay, but smaller or isolated countries will almost certainly suffer severe economic hardships as their links to the rest of the world went up in spacedust. This is also probably the ''best'' possible outcome of the war. That's right. Because without a Kessler syndrome disaster knocking out satellite communications, the Huginn and Muninn AIs could have easily hijacked any satellite communications station and broadcast themselves across the globe, thus becomming '''unkillable'''. With no satellites to hijack, the Huginn and Muninn AIs were forced to try and use the ISEV, which revealed them the Osean and Conservative Erusean forces and allowed Trigger to take them down and stop their plan
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* On a meta level, long-range multi-target 4/8AGMs and their anti-air counterparts have historically always been really good in the series; some squadrons could be wiped out as they're hit by missiles before their AI is even active. This applies throughout the early stages of the game, and strongly reward players who acquire them in the mid-late game. However, as the finale approaches, [[spoiler: you're no longer able to instantly tell friend from foe]], completely ruining their fire-and-forget nature and forcing a more calculated strategy.
strategy. This also plays a role whenever the Arsenal Bird's drone swarms are in play, making it hard to hit anything on the big bird itself. Various ships also have multiple target elements, absorbing missiles when just a direct hit to the hull would take them all out.
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* Erusea declares war against Osea, who is a superpower and has an impressive naval force. So how does Erusea even the odds? They ship MQ-99s in containers all over Osea (putting aside the fact that said containers would be inspected and wouldn't escape scrutiny, unless Osea's inspection policies are extremely lax), and proceed to remote launch them from their containers, who spread out across the country and destroy multiple naval bases, crippling Osea's naval power and ensuring that Osea can't wield its naval might against Erusea. It's basically the Pearl Harbor attack taken UpToEleven, and successful.
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* Erusea declares war against Osea, who is a superpower and has an impressive naval force. So how does Erusea even the odds? They ship MQ-99s in containers all over Osea (putting aside the fact that said containers would be inspected and wouldn't escape scrutiny, unless Osea's inspection policies are extremely lax), Osea, and proceed to remote launch them from their containers, who containers before Osean customs inspectors can get near the containers. The drones then spread out across the country and destroy multiple naval bases, crippling Osea's naval power and ensuring that Osea can't wield its naval might against Erusea. It's basically the Pearl Harbor attack taken UpToEleven, and successful.successful (excluding the carrier Admiral Andersen, which was left unmolested even after getting stuck on a reef).
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** Also supported by the fact that Sol Squadron, Erusea's current top air force squadron, composed of members who are non-Erusean. Mihaly is a former royalty from Shilage, and his wingmen are from the state of Voslage. The numbers of Erusean pilots are so low, they have to enlist pilots from their subjugated nations in battle.
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** Also supported by the fact that Sol Squadron, Erusea's current top air force squadron, composed of members who are non-Erusean. Mihaly is a former royalty from Shilage, and his wingmen are from the state former republic of Voslage. The numbers of ethnically Erusean pilots are so low, they have to enlist pilots from their subjugated nations in battle.just to match the eastern Usean and Osean air forces.
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* [[VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies ISAF did not destroy the 8th Stonehenge railgun in the last war]] because it was disabled by an asteroid and didn't pose a threat at that time. However, Osea was able to restore it, ''and this was the sole reason why they were able to shoot down an Arsenal Bird''. So if ISAF decided during the last war to destroy the 8th railgun (whether to prevent reactivation by Erusea or if the asteroid didn't disable it in the first place), Osea would be screwed. Furthermore, the fact that the 8th gun could be activated shows that ISAF was quite careless in their raid, because Erusea could have reactivated it, further haunting ISAF.
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* [[VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies ISAF did not destroy the 8th Stonehenge railgun in the last war]] because it was disabled by an asteroid and didn't pose a threat at that time. However, Osea was able to restore it, ''and this was the sole reason why they were able to shoot down an Arsenal Bird''. So if ISAF decided during the last war to destroy the 8th railgun (whether to prevent reactivation by Erusea or if the asteroid didn't disable it in the first place), Osea would be screwed. Furthermore, the fact that the 8th gun could be activated shows that ISAF was quite potentially careless in their raid, because Erusea could have reactivated it, further haunting ISAF.it (albeit with a lot of disapproval from the local populations) in order to harass the Osean forces.
** Thankfully, the Erusean radicals had placed all their eggs into the Belkan drone basket. Why bother refurbishing a twenty-something-year-old rusting railgun when you can buy up thousands of killer drones for the same amount of money? Osea counted on Erusea doing this in order to pull off the insane plan of hijacking Stonehenge. This move would then cause the Eruseans to eventually believe that the Oseans were preparing to bombard Farbanti with Stonehenge's projectiles, thus Arsenal Bird is sent to destroy Stonehenge!
** Thankfully, the Erusean radicals had placed all their eggs into the Belkan drone basket. Why bother refurbishing a twenty-something-year-old rusting railgun when you can buy up thousands of killer drones for the same amount of money? Osea counted on Erusea doing this in order to pull off the insane plan of hijacking Stonehenge. This move would then cause the Eruseans to eventually believe that the Oseans were preparing to bombard Farbanti with Stonehenge's projectiles, thus Arsenal Bird is sent to destroy Stonehenge!
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* When Trigger joins the Long Range Strategic Strike Group, the squadron embarks on a long-range mission to seize Farbanti by flying across the northeastern and northern coasts of Usea. A curious thing that occurs during these missions is that there is not a single enemy drone fought, except for Mission 12 when the LRSSG gets pulled off their mission course to defend Stonehenge and destroy an Arsenal Bird. Essentially, in Missions 11, 13, 14, and 15, you are exclusively fighting the drone-skeptical conservative faction of the Erusean military. This also ties into the fact that these missions take place far from the frontlines of the war, as the Erusean radicals are much more aggressive and are throwing as many drones as they can into the hottest battlefields (primarily in the southern regions of Usea) to gain ground and not leaving them behind to defend home territory.
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* [[VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies ISAF did not destroy the 8th Stonehenge railgun in the last war]] because it was disabled by an asteroid and didn't pose a threat at that time. However, Osea was able to restore it, ''and this was the sole reason why they were able to shoot down an Arsenal Bird''. So if ISAF decided during the last war to destroy the 8th railgun (whether to prevent reactivation by Erusea or if the asteroid didn't disable it in the first place), Osea would be screwed. Furthermore, the fact that the 8th gun could be activated shows that ISAF was quite careless in their raid, because Erusea could have reactivated it, further haunting ISAF.
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* [[VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies ISAF did not destroy the 8th Stonehenge railgun in the last war]] because it was disabled by an asteroid and didn't pose a threat at that time. However, Osea was able to restore it, ''and this was the sole reason why they were able to shoot down an Arsenal Bird''. So if ISAF decided during the last war to destroy the 8th railgun (whether to prevent reactivation by Erusea or if the asteroid didn't disable it in the first place), Osea would be screwed. Furthermore, the fact that the 8th gun could be activated shows that ISAF was quite careless in their raid, because Erusea could have reactivated it, further haunting ISAF.
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* When Trigger joins the Long Range Strategic Strike Group, the squadron embarks on a long-range mission to seize Farbanti by flying across the northeastern and northern coasts of Usea. A curious thing that occurs during these missions is that there is not a single enemy drone fought, except for Mission 12 when the LRSSG gets pulled off their mission course to defend Stonehenge and destroy an Arsenal Bird. Essentially, in Missions 11, 13, 14, and 15, you are exclusively fighting the drone-skeptical conservative faction of the Erusean military. This also ties into the fact that these missions take place far from the frontlines of the war, as the Erusean radicals are much more aggressive and are throwing as many drones as they can into the hottest battlefields (primarily in the southern regions of Usea) to gain ground and not leaving them behind to defend home territory.
* When Trigger joins the Long Range Strategic Strike Group, the squadron embarks on a long-range mission to seize Farbanti by flying across the northeastern and northern coasts of Usea. A curious thing that occurs during these missions is that there is not a single enemy drone fought, except for Mission 12 when the LRSSG gets pulled off their mission course to defend Stonehenge and destroy an Arsenal Bird. Essentially, in Missions 11, 13, 14, and 15, you are exclusively fighting the drone-skeptical conservative faction of the Erusean military. This also ties into the fact that these missions take place far from the frontlines of the war, as the Erusean radicals are much more aggressive and are throwing as many drones as they can into the hottest battlefields (primarily in the southern regions of Usea) to gain ground and not leaving them behind to defend home territory.
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* [[BadBoss [=McKinsey=]]] throwing Spare pilots into jail for... saving the Zapland Base? Later missions imply that he is trying to get the place bombed into uselessness so he can move on to other places!somewhere else!
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* McKinsey [[BadBoss [=McKinsey=]]] throwing Spare pilots into jail for... saving the Zapland Base? Later missions imply that he is trying to get the place bombed into uselessness so he can move on to other places!
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* McKinsey throwing Spare pilots into jail for... saving the Zapland Base? Later missions imply that he is trying to get the place bombed into uselessness so he can move on to other places!
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* The Arsenal Bird, while serving as a design successor to the Arkbird, also incorporates defenses that seem to be a sort of "lessons learned" from the Arkbird's hijacking and destruction.
** Arkbird is manned by a crew and gets hijacked? Make the Arsenal Bird autonomous, meaning unless an enemy force can capture its control center (which unfortunately does happen), there's no way of taking it over and no crew rotations are necessary; the Arsenal Bird can loiter indefinitely.
** Arkbird's drones are too few and a last-ditch addition by the Belkans? The Arsenal Bird incorporates ''80'' MQ-101s, and they swarm any attackers.
** An attacker closes in, and stands to destroy them? The Arkbird had no shields, the Arsenal Bird incorporates microwave shielding, making it impervious to almost all projectiles.
** Arkbird is manned by a crew and gets hijacked? Make the Arsenal Bird autonomous, meaning unless an enemy force can capture its control center (which unfortunately does happen), there's no way of taking it over and no crew rotations are necessary; the Arsenal Bird can loiter indefinitely.
** Arkbird's drones are too few and a last-ditch addition by the Belkans? The Arsenal Bird incorporates ''80'' MQ-101s, and they swarm any attackers.
** An attacker closes in, and stands to destroy them? The Arkbird had no shields, the Arsenal Bird incorporates microwave shielding, making it impervious to almost all projectiles.
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* Erusea relying on drones to supplement their air force makes sense; their air force was devastated in the last Continental War of 2003-2005, and while they were able to restore their air power somewhat, the implied shortage of pilots means the Eruseans had to turn to drones and converted drone fighters to fill in the holes. In fact, post Battle of Farbanti, it's heavily implied that the bulk of enemy Erusean fighters are these converted drone fighters.
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* Erusea relying on drones to supplement their air force makes sense; their air force was devastated in the last Continental War of 2003-2005, and while they were able to restore their air power somewhat, the implied shortage of pilots means the Eruseans had to turn to drones and converted drone fighters to fill in the holes. In fact, post Battle of Farbanti, it's heavily implied that the bulk of enemy Erusean fighters are these converted drone fighters.fighters.
** This is lampshaded in the final mission by an Erusean pilot, who wonders out loud what has happened to all of Erusea's ace pilots and implicitly blames drone development for the atrophying of Erusean piloting skills.
** This is lampshaded in the final mission by an Erusean pilot, who wonders out loud what has happened to all of Erusea's ace pilots and implicitly blames drone development for the atrophying of Erusean piloting skills.
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** 1. While the primary target was asteroids that fly on slow, easily predictable paths, which have to be hit dead on to kill, its use as a long-range AA weapon meant you only needed to be in the ballpark of your intended target. You don't need to be that accurate when you only need to get the shells to the area and detonate them once they arrive. The shockwaves are what do the damage after all. You have to account for curvature of the Earth; Stonehenge's projectiles
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** 1. While the primary target was asteroids that fly on slow, easily predictable paths, which have to be hit dead on to kill, its use as a long-range AA weapon meant you only needed to be in the ballpark of your intended target. You don't need to be that accurate when you only need to get the shells to the area and detonate them once they arrive. The shockwaves are what do the damage after all. You have to account for curvature of the Earth; Stonehenge's projectiles
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** 3. Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
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** 3. Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes hitting the deck and lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
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** 1. While the primary target was asteroids that fly on slow, easily predictable paths, which have to be hit dead on to kill, its use as a long-range AA weapon meant you only needed to be in the ballpark of your intended target. You don't need to be that accurate when you only need to get the shells to the area and detonate them once they arrive. The shockwaves are what do the damage after all.
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** 1. While the primary target was asteroids that fly on slow, easily predictable paths, which have to be hit dead on to kill, its use as a long-range AA weapon meant you only needed to be in the ballpark of your intended target. You don't need to be that accurate when you only need to get the shells to the area and detonate them once they arrive. The shockwaves are what do the damage after all. You have to account for curvature of the Earth; Stonehenge's projectiles
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* Erusea declares war against Osea, who is a superpower and has an impressive naval force. So how does Erusea even the odds? They ship MQ-99 UAVs in containers all over Osea (putting aside the fact that said containers would be inspected and wouldn't escape scrutiny, unless Osea's inspection policies are extremely lax), and proceed to remote launch the UAVs, who spread out across the country and destroy multiple naval bases, crippling Osea's naval power and ensuring that Osea can't wield it's naval might against Erusea.
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* Erusea declares war against Osea, who is a superpower and has an impressive naval force. So how does Erusea even the odds? They ship MQ-99 UAVs MQ-99s in containers all over Osea (putting aside the fact that said containers would be inspected and wouldn't escape scrutiny, unless Osea's inspection policies are extremely lax), and proceed to remote launch the UAVs, them from their containers, who spread out across the country and destroy multiple naval bases, crippling Osea's naval power and ensuring that Osea can't wield it's naval might against Erusea.
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** 3. Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
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** 3. Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.in.
*Erusea declares war against Osea, who is a superpower and has an impressive naval force. So how does Erusea even the odds? They ship MQ-99 UAVs in containers all over Osea (putting aside the fact that said containers would be inspected and wouldn't escape scrutiny, unless Osea's inspection policies are extremely lax), and proceed to remote launch the UAVs, who spread out across the country and destroy multiple naval bases, crippling Osea's naval power and ensuring that Osea can't wield it's naval might against Erusea.
*Erusea relying on drones to supplement their air force makes sense; their air force was devastated in the last Continental War of 2003-2005, and while they were able to restore their air power somewhat, the implied shortage of pilots means the Eruseans had to turn to drones and converted drone fighters to fill in the holes. In fact, post Battle of Farbanti, it's heavily implied that the bulk of enemy Erusean fighters are these converted drone fighters.
*Erusea declares war against Osea, who is a superpower and has an impressive naval force. So how does Erusea even the odds? They ship MQ-99 UAVs in containers all over Osea (putting aside the fact that said containers would be inspected and wouldn't escape scrutiny, unless Osea's inspection policies are extremely lax), and proceed to remote launch the UAVs, who spread out across the country and destroy multiple naval bases, crippling Osea's naval power and ensuring that Osea can't wield it's naval might against Erusea.
*Erusea relying on drones to supplement their air force makes sense; their air force was devastated in the last Continental War of 2003-2005, and while they were able to restore their air power somewhat, the implied shortage of pilots means the Eruseans had to turn to drones and converted drone fighters to fill in the holes. In fact, post Battle of Farbanti, it's heavily implied that the bulk of enemy Erusean fighters are these converted drone fighters.
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** Having the ability to shoot at the distances it's capable of means that any operation within its range is going to have Stonehenge support for the Erusians, and again, it doesn't need to hit the dozens of planes in the area directly to kill them. The fact it '''can''' shoot the distances it can means that until ISAF developed a plan to kill it, they weren't going near it, achieving Air Superiority by simply scaring the other guys planes away works just as well as killing them tactically.
** Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
** Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
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** 2. Having the ability to shoot at the distances it's capable of means that any operation within its range is going to have Stonehenge support for the Erusians, and again, it doesn't need to hit the dozens of planes in the area directly to kill them. The fact it '''can''' shoot the distances it can means that until ISAF developed a plan to kill it, they weren't going near it, achieving Air Superiority by simply scaring the other guys planes away works just as well as killing them tactically.
** 3. Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
** 3. Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
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* While one might think that having a range table is useless for Stonehenge, it does make sense to a degree for a few reasons:
** 1. While the primary target was asteroids that fly on slow, easily predictable paths, which have to be hit dead on to kill, its use as a long-range AA weapon meant you only needed to be in the ballpark of your intended target. You don't need to be that accurate when you only need to get the shells to the area and detonate them once they arrive. The shockwaves are what do the damage after all.
** Having the ability to shoot at the distances it's capable of means that any operation within its range is going to have Stonehenge support for the Erusians, and again, it doesn't need to hit the dozens of planes in the area directly to kill them. The fact it '''can''' shoot the distances it can means that until ISAF developed a plan to kill it, they weren't going near it, achieving Air Superiority by simply scaring the other guys planes away works just as well as killing them tactically.
** Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
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* While one might think that having a range table is useless for Stonehenge, it does make sense to a degree for a few reasons:
** 1. While the primary target was asteroids that fly on slow, easily predictable paths, which have to be hit dead on to kill, its use as a long-range AA weapon meant you only needed to be in the ballpark of your intended target. You don't need to be that accurate when you only need to get the shells to the area and detonate them once they arrive. The shockwaves are what do the damage after all.
** Having the ability to shoot at the distances it's capable of means that any operation within its range is going to have Stonehenge support for the Erusians, and again, it doesn't need to hit the dozens of planes in the area directly to kill them. The fact it '''can''' shoot the distances it can means that until ISAF developed a plan to kill it, they weren't going near it, achieving Air Superiority by simply scaring the other guys planes away works just as well as killing them tactically.
** Computerized targeting is great... until it doesn't work. However, wars don't wait for repairs to be made, something Stonehenge itself would likely not be immune to. Ergo, having a backup for the computer systems should they fail only makes sense. It may be slower, and not as accurate, but just the fact that the shells are coming is gonna have enemy planes lighting their burner cans towards the exit the second an AWACS calls out a Stonehenge volley coming in.
