games-pc harpoon ii User Manual

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Shortly into the scenario you should have two air contacts to the

north.  Go ahead and watch these contacts for a few minutes to see

if you can determine more information about them without turning

your sensors on and revealing your position.  Click on each contact

and determine what kind of emissions your ESM gear has detected.

The contacts are emitting surface search radar that can be found on

several Soviet-made heavy bombers.  So, it is a logical assumption

(for this scenario, at least) that these are the Bad Guys.  Let’s watch

them for a while and see where they are headed.

After observing these contacts for a few minutes, we can see they

are headed for our position.  It looks like we may have a fight on our

hands.  In most scenarios you would probably have additional assets

such as fighter aircraft to intercept a possible threat.  We are going

it alone in this scenario to demonstrate the use of surface-to-air

weapons.  Go ahead and activate your radar (you should know how

to do this from our last lesson). You should quickly obtain solid

contacts  on  both  aircraft.  The  next  portion  of  the  tutorial  will

demonstrate the difference between automatic and manual engage-

ments.

Since we have set the Staff Preference option to Weapons Free, allow

the first aircraft to get close enough for a visual ID to see if the Puller

will engage the air threat on her own.   The first aircraft is identified

as a Bear-F Bomber (ASW variant).  Once it has been identified, the

Puller will automatically engage.  You should see a video of a missile

launch and if you have a PC with a sound card or a Macintosh

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sound of the missile launch will be heard as well.   A missile symbol will

appear and begin tracking towards the target.  If it hits you will notice

a rosette pattern representing an explosion surround the aircraft  hit

by  a  missile.    If  the  missile  misses,  additional  missiles  will  be
automatically launched.

We are going to engage the second air target manually. First, select
Weapons Tight from the Game Preferences dialog box within the