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Tornado In The Desert
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Category: Campaigns
Vehicle: Any Vehicle, F/A-26B
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Sep 27, 2021 @ 3:08pm
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Tornado In The Desert

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Tornado in the Desert

This is a 5 mission campaign, based on real events, which re-creates the varied role of the RAF Torndado squadrons in the 1991 Gulf war.

RAF Tornado's took part in Desert Shield, the prelude to Desert Storm, by initially performing a number of recon missions searching for Scud missiles inside Iraq. Tornado's were then used in the very first wave of attacks at the beginning of Desert Storm, performing low level SEAD and strike missions on a number of Iraq airbases. As the campaign continued the RAF Tornado's tactics switched from low level to medium level bombing due to the attrition rate of those initial low level missions.

I have researched a number of the RAF Tornado missions (Dates/Times/Targets/Tactics) and applied some artistic licence to give you a feel for the challenges the Tornado pilots faced. The Tornado is of course a dual crewed warplane but you will be flying the missions in the single crewed F/A-26B, Flight Navigator assistance will be given using the system tutorial dialogue box.

The map depicts the main landmarks (Persian Gulf, Kuwait City, Bagdhad, Basra, Tabuk Airbase, Dhahran Airbase, Talil/Al Asad/Shaibah airbases) The map is not a 100% faithfully accurate but the main locations are there or thereabouts in relation to each other.

The campaign missions will feature the following elements;
- Take off and landing at one of the Coalition airbases (Tabuk or Dhahran)
- A variety of coalition AI activity based on real events
- Weapons Load-outs will be pre-determined by your squadron commanders based on the mission objectives
- Night operations, low level flying, tanker re-fuelling, close formation flying, navigating using GPS paths and dropping unguided 1000lb bombs are skills you will need to complete the missions.

For some background information on the actual role of the RAF Tornados check out the following website;

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38745/how-british-tornados-used-a-special-weapon-to-ravage-saddams-airfields-in-daring-desert-storm-raids

Constructive feedback is always welcome and if you enjoy the campaign please give me a thumbs up.

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Judge Dredd  [author] Feb 12 @ 5:35am 
Ofscor the mission was designed to test your accuracy of flying abilities, particularly at low level, true to how the RAF Tornado's operated in the first Gulf War. Following the path set, both for access and egress, accurately was a deliberate mission aim. Unfortunately, saving the game, can mess up timed events in missions, this is a main VTOL VR game coding problem, there is nothing I can do in the editor except not have timed events, which would limit the scenarios.
Ofuscor Feb 12 @ 4:20am 
The first mission "Scud hunting" is a bit annoying. When you enter the recon gps path you need to exit 100% through the last 3 or 4 GPS points. Otherwise the mission bugs out and it does not recognized you exited Irak airspace and will ruin you mission (going above 500 ft and triggering the mision failure sequence). I pulled a very tight 180 degrees turn to exit through where I entered and it did not recognized it. Pretty annoying, since the entrance is way closer to the airfield where you need to land in the end. Also there is a waypoint after spotting the second truck that appeared behind me in part of the path I had already passed making it even more confusing.

Also It would have been good to know from the start that we have limited quicksaves. The air refuelling part bugs out if you load a quicksave after you completed it, and it is considered complete as soon as you load.
TerrorMango Sep 13, 2024 @ 12:23pm 
Might be broken, loadouts are NOT preset as per the description, just empty configurable, making it hard to really know what and how much you should take.
Stealth Inc Jul 20, 2024 @ 9:51pm 
I don't know how this campaign plays, except the first mission. It is already needlessly punishing by design, but seems to be broken and not able to be completed with the most recent game version. Durka durka muhammed jihad will somehow hack into your comms and inform both you and the goldfish in your ear that you will pay for entering their airspace, when you are in various places outside of their airspace or not humping the GPS path. Then get berated by the goldfish, fail the mission, and smited by God just for good measure. Yikes/10
Kahltenberg Jan 30, 2024 @ 6:16pm 
Wow, this was one of the best campaigns I‘ve ever played. There is just everything you want, if you are a realy good pilot and loves low altitude flights, air refuelings and low altitude night flights, this one is just for you… and all of this stuff starts with low level „under radar“ reconnaissance in the first mission. just almost perfect… if you could make a remake for the EF-24 in multiplayer, that would be absolutely amaizing.

Thank you so much for your great work, Judge Dredd. I love all of your missions and campaigns and am happy to take a part of all of those legendary operations, inspired by the real world events and made by you with absolute dedication and devotion.
MOUS3C0P Jan 2, 2024 @ 11:43pm 
any chance of reuploading with the 24 instead? seems like a great analog
The Cowman Jun 17, 2023 @ 9:44am 
So far so good! But, I couldn't find the downed pilot. I flew the 25 miles heading 10 deg from bullseye. I found the downed jet and saw it explode but I couldn't find the pilot. I flew around a lot until bingo fuel and then had to turn it off and do my laundry. I did enjoy blowing the crap out of all the bunkers. Anyone have any hints as to where said pilot might be?? I only played it once so maybe I missed him or something, not sure. But any help would be greatly appreciated. Good stuff!!! Can't wait to play the other missions.
ZbuffeR Nov 11, 2021 @ 10:45am 
Great campaign, few actions to do but long missions and everything must be done with precision, so this is quite hard.

A lot of work went into this, and it shows !
Alied units everywhere, briefings and comms during mission (spoken **and** written, perfect!)

On the second strike mission, finding the unit having only south of XXX city forced me to look an actual map of Irak-Iran region :)
James Nov 9, 2021 @ 10:12pm 
Any good with the A10D mod?
literally a toaster Nov 8, 2021 @ 4:27pm 
Any possibility we could get a version of the camp that allows us to configure loadouts? Would like to make a yt video series using this campaign/F-16 mod :). Credits to you of course.