Interesting to see fratricide pop up. I wonder if there’s not intentional or accidental engineered flaw in the phalanx software? DoD and the defense industry had their challenges with Soviet and client agent penetration into sensitive areas and programs. I’d imagine phalanx systems fitted to wartime builds would be either pulled from stores and given a contractor overhaul or new build possibly from a subcontractor. Either way, lots of opportunities for mischief or just simple error.
Speaking of fratricide, something that always puzzled me in T2K was integration of the “new” bundeswehr divisions equipped with their old Soviet model vehicles into NATO formation. In real life this is solved by vehicle marking, spatial deconfliction, and control measures, and I’d imagine it’d be the same here. That said, there hasn’t been intermixing on the scale depicted out in some of the T2K battles.
I’m wondering what happens when a wild weasel is over a 2x series Bundeswehr division and detects an SA-11, two sides use MIG29s in a furball that also involves other NATO forces, or when an ELINT unit detects a Big Fred artillery locating radar while a friendly unit reports receiving fire. The visual aspects are hazardous, but the EM spectrum, air combat, and fires management seem equally fraught.
Last edited by Homer; 03-12-2022 at 03:57 PM.
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