Hunting the target, making the Kill | DCS World Apache AH-64D

hey everybody casmo here and in this continuation video of the training I did with Jake he's a patreon supporter moderator of my podcast we've been doing some individual training in the Apache and in this video we uh finish up our culmination training event uh finding some artillery kind of working through the terrain working the crew coordination piece so hopefully you guys enjoy and you'll learn [Music] something [Music] no and this is and I guess that's the point of the lesson right is it's easy to get tied to the way points and the lines on the TSD those are just suggestions right the points are what matters but the lines don't matter sure so um so what I could do of course is drop CA points or whatever but you know at the end of the day you're the one maneuvering aircraft so um and if you're the pilot command you're the guy making the decisions but yeah and and that happens a lot guys get sucked in to the lines on the map say I got to go this direction this the world is our oyster the only thing that prevents us from doing that is if there was some sort of unit boundary line they said hey you know you can't cross this boundary because there might be another team of Apaches working here sure right and we don't want to bump into them so I would cut kind of to the left here see that Gap in the trees cuz you still want to stay low we don't want to get into the high ground we want to maneuver around The High Ground so keep coming left hard left 11:00 see that Gap right there shoot that gap between those the clump of trees that Single Tree keep coming there you go yeah right off there okay so we want to stay in the low ground as much as possible and keep the trees uh around us because now we're just kind of I'm just you know keeping score of where stuff is at at our 11:00 over the other Hill is roughly where way point 4 is or at least in that direction so so now we've got a bunch of trees ahead of us with no town in them which is good cuz I don't know who lives there so this little Gap here to the left or where the tree line ends and the hill kind of slides up so now we have a hill between us and the sa15 yep and right off the nose is is the supposed Target area so we can pull up here so we we've got vertical unmasking which is what we've been doing popping up over the trees but there's also lateral unmasking so if we and I'm not telling you to do it but if we stop right here okay we could we could remask by just sliding to the right right and just get behind the trees so right now we're we're vertically or or horizontally unmasked from the direction of travel so we're going to continue forward just cuz this High Ground is not helping us so just continue forward we got another Tree Line there but again always be thinking about if we come around this tree and a dude start shooting at us what are we going to what are we going to do I would laterally unmask either left or right of it I like right okay cuz we are a little bit higher than we were that sa5 is off to our left so this is allowing us a little bit of extra protection so so I don't know what do you think where should we go to the right there's a like that big clump of trees where that single tree is like probably 2:00 I would go there all right let's do it now one thing to just be careful of is and we're okay but is picking up too much speed because you know you're going to stop and slow down up here so you know you don't want to get too crazy I was flying with a guy and he wanted to go like 120 knots every time we reposition know 80 is probably a healthy number as long as you're capable of of slowing it down and sure getting everything caught yeah that was actually faster than I was comfortable with so okay all right so we got another Gap here but we can't see so we're going to have to do some vertical unmasking so I would move up a little bit into this Keyhole yep in this corner again giving yourself plenty of space forward and you don't have to face the Target right I mean the site moves so if let's say the winds are strong or again our egress plan has us going the direction that the nose is pointing the nuts fine because all we're trying to do is find stuff right now right so we don't necessarily have to have the nose pointed on it we're still going to have to come up because the trees are just too thick right here and I'm afraid that the target area is probably close to these trees which means we would need a lot of look down angle I don't see anything all right so I tell you what let's go back where we came from so off to the left follow this tree line back to the left back to that clump of trees that you decided to go to the right of let's go back to that clump of trees okay and look from there all right so what we're going to need to do is Crest this High Ground so we can either hug in close to these trees on the right or you can you can see where The High Ground off to the left at like 11:00 kind of dipped back up a little bit past these little sparse trees kind of kind of push over there cuz we've already looked on the on the the left side of the area now we're trying to look on the right side of the area the the South Side sure um so I see where it comes up and like see where that white smoke is kind of right yeah yeah exactly the no kind of get over in that area yeah but stay on the you know yeah just past these trees yeah just past these trees I got stay on stay on this side of the high ground but just past those trees okay and we don't really have the speed for it but what another thing we could do is called unmasking and flight so while we're pushing forward you could CYCC climb get up in the air you know it's kind of like old 3 to 5c Buddy Rush I'm up he sees me I'm down type stuff and while you're popped up in the air I'm looking around and then you dive back down does that make sense yep okay exactly yeah but we didn't really have the speed for it so it's fine all right the whole Target area looks clear so there not here they're somewhere further further in so go ahead and bring us to the right okay and then I'd say at like our 2:00 out there there's a trees and then like a road come right come right 2:00 oh I see the road yep yeah head head towards that tree line okay oh might have seen them yep yep okay we're taking fire taking Small Arms fire continue forward continue forward forward don't turn into the trees just keep going you got that big open area right there all right yeah I see him visually right there out the left side see him okay look out the left side past the trees yep I see oh yeah see him all right yeah yeah all right you're taking fire just keep keep the speed up don't crash this all right so just keep going past these trees we're just going to get some distance from them I'm going to get down in this little Valley first so I can kind of turn around so give yourself plenty of room go ahead and unmask vertically right all right so our Target is a field artillery site potentially with Sams if I recall short range Sams unfortunately we saw that guy so fast I wasn't able to get the sight on him and store him so we're just going to have to sort of remember where he was was roughly or where they were there's 150 ft I'm trying to find them okay all right I'm trying to get all right we're going to need to get further off to the right okay or or we're going to have to go back the way we came what about that tree line that follows the road straight in front of us we stay on the right hand side of that kind of track it up or do you not like that uh if I'm looking at what you're looking at I think we're going to get too close okay all right do you see at 11:00 this High ground with trees the the hill very prominent Hill all right let's head to the left side of that go kind of quick here because I feel like he's going to see us yeah that's fine right all right he's shooting at us there you go don't freak out don't pull the nose down push that nose down get some speed up you get all the space hard right there you go get behind the trees keep the speed up there you go just pop up hard right get underneath I'm going to stay in a low ground as much as possible there you go good okay just continue on there you go just continue straight all right I'm inside I'm moving all right I got nowhere to go here though well just just because there's no open ground doesn't mean you can't hover right we can hover over the trees okay just you got to treat it as if basically you don't have any cover and that's why I say I want to keep sort of I don't want to be the highest thing cuz we want to keep the hill the terrain itself between us and the bad guy just like we did earlier with the ground right the ground sloped up it's the same concept so go ahead and bring us around to the right so essentially right now you're just hovering over open ground just treat the trees like it's all open ground you just don't have anything to hide behind except the hill itself so keep keep coming right bring the nose around to the tads that'll help us Orient okay there you go so now what I want you to do is go ahead and climb up just a little bit your Flyway plant obviously is going to be down right into that fi okay okay stop all right hold right here hold right here I got a guy all right I got one missile launcher okay Target 0 five oops there we go I got another missile launcher oh I got ammo trucks here Target 06 oh I got a I got a Sam right here okay get me lined up all right we're in constraints and don't fire fire he's at 3K he's looking right at us we're just outside of his envelope it's sa 9 nice all right that was close all right well the word is out but a guy shot at us with a machine gun so there's something else out here but so this is where and this is a good thing so don't get us too high cuz that sa15 is still out there but but you're fine I just want you to be conscious of it so this is where DCS and real life sort of like don't meet what is our mission to take out the target all right take out the target so would it surprise you to know that there's no such tactical task as take out right so and what I'm getting at is um there's criteria right so I get you suppress or damage or right out of service destruction criteria okay so uh for instance artillery and I may screw up the statistics but I as I recall 30% of the of the target area destroyed is what artillery terms as destroyed so if they say we destroyed the target it really only mean they killed like 30% of the stuff there okay right so we could get our destruction criteria which should be really part of a a good brief that we get is hey destruction criteria we want you to destroy at least five artillery pieces or we want you or you may have priority targets right so that Sam priority Target cuz cuz CU if we don't kill him he kill us and then nothing gets done but let's talk about this there's artillery out here and there's ammo trucks out here okay so if I kill the ammo trucks can the artillery shoot anymore no if I kill the artillery what point is the ammo so you know you can get to these sort of debates of like which is the priority Target and stuff like that Logistics is always a really good Target to kill um but this is where I'm saying in DCS land what do we always do we just want to kill everything we just want to go in there nuke everything well that's how dudes get shot down all the time is because they push we've got three ammo trucks two actually I think a third I thought I saw a third out there artillery pieces so there's probably more but they're in this tree line if we kill three ammo trucks four ammo trucks and three artillery pieces would you say we did a pretty good number on that artillery unit of course yeah so I would say that we've hit a destruction criteria now we didn't go into this Mission with a destruction criteria so we're going to kill everything we can but that's where we sometimes lose the lose side of the ball is we just say well I got to kill every single thing that's out here and that's not necessarily true because we could push in somebody shot a machine gun at us it wasn't a damn artillery truck and it wasn't an ammo truck so it's a BMP or brdm or something like that and he was in a pretty good spot in the trees so we can either spend the next hour which we don't have the gas for trying to find the right angle on that guy um or we could push in and then let him find us with his tracers maybe maybe we survive maybe we don't so that's what I'm getting at and and I think I think if guys actually played like that more they would have a little bit more enjoyment than just I got to go out there and just nuke everything oh man I got shot down you know everybody about the golden bb that hits them but right and you put yourself in the position to get hit with the golden bb and so it's like yeah I got nothing and so the other DCS thing that we can sort of uh Leverage is the fact that we know as soon as we shoot one of these dudes what are they all going to do they're going to start moving so and sometimes that can be an advantage because they may move into our sights so what I like to do is try to hit the guys who looks like if they move they're not going to be a Target anymore so who's the guy that's most likely to get the hell out of Dodge and it's probably am truck yeah it's probably the amm truck right here but I hate the waste of missile in this guy let me see what the range is okay so let's do co-op Rockets okay you remember how to do it yep all right all right match and shoot oh yeah I think those will be good I mean those were good Rockets again real world we put some Rockets like that in there we're throwing shrapnel all over the place we're doing the L work all right so I want you to put like four Rockets out there so match and shoot okay all right see fire sensing all right so you're slinging them just a little bit okay remember if you have a yaw in the aircraft when you shoot you're imparting that yaw to the rocket so it's not like a laser beam you're trying to like get it to stay on target yeah match and shoot so so don't think about it too much there you go so do I want to kind of try to do this in a hover or do I want to get that forward momentum you can get a full of forward but just be conscious there's a dude out there with a machine gun but yeah you're you're cheating when you do it that way and that's the way to do it for air speed whoa okay there we go all right I mean that was outrageous like that was awesome thanks so we killed we killed one realistically we would have we would have really hurt the feelings of a lot of those dudes sure all right but we got more Rockets let me get this thing back under control all right match and shoot there you go right in there right in there oh you had it all right those are pretty good oh all right all right yeah all right good deal you you've killed everything except the guy we're aiming at but that's okay all right so I'm going to uh I'm going to go up missiles cuz I want to kill these uh okay oops sorry I'm trying to take the gun my bad yeah I noticed all right all right I'm firing and I'm going to Ripple these off I should have shot the far guy first but boom and oh it's tent yeah all right I'd be slinging my damn laser like all the way to the next town all right I'm going to take the gun from you okay you got it and I'm going to see if we can get this pretty pretty long shot but he's a light skinn Target so we don't need to do too much all right so I want to keep the reticle very still with the gun because it's just like rockets if I put some if I impart this motion right here and shoot the rounds are going to miss because they're trying to to anticipate where the sight's going to be so the rounds should land off to the right of the Target because I'm letting the sight drift them see there's the rounds right there okay so that's why we got to keep it steady okay so I'm lazing I got it steady now I'm going to fire and since it's such a long range I'm going to go ah aad and give them two and of course you're looking around making sure nobody's shooting at us cuz we are exposed but you know sometimes that's the way it is all right cool all right so let's slide off to the left left we got this large field we've spent way too much time in this spot but we've also been learning and talking and doing sure um oh there's a guy right there oh that's the that's one of the dudes that shot at us right there all right tell you what keep going keep going keep going I want you to um circle around to the left okay and you're basically going to do like a 270° turn okay so you're going to turn all the way left and the reason I want you to do that is cuz I want you to keep your space and I want to see if we can't grab that dude up if I can get a missile off so you're going to continue around and as you're coming around that last 90° I want you to climb a little bit 6:00 searching okay he's only searching that's fine he's searching there he is right there all right I got a guy with a gun all right I got missiles no I got and firing okay so that's their fire Direction Center truck I'm pretty sure that might be the guy that shot at us Jack all right continue forward I got another artillery piece and I'm firing all right so take us out of orbit bring us back down oh yeah there's guys right here all right come right back towards the tads all right I got the gun I'm firing maybe all right so just keep bringing us low get us down low okay like there's trees right underneath me you want me to back up no no no no keep moving forward drive forward like we're rolling in like we've killed the guy with the gun I'm pretty sure if you okay if we start taking fire then then evade but we've we've mitigated the the danger here all right so I got this guy right that's the target another Target right here my line of sight all right take the gun and shoot him he's right behind my there you go just make adjustments look down a little bit there you go nice perfect there was still a couple targets out there that I saw but that that's fine okay those dudes are not in their vehicles anymore right like if if you were sitting in your artillery truck which by the way that's the other thing like guys don't just sit in their vehicles all day right like some some people are not going to be in their vehicle um um and so if if let's say you're sitting in the tree line because you're trying to get in the shade it's not your turn to be on air watch or radio watch or whatever and you're just getting some shade you're taking a and all of a sudden the trucks start exploding are you running back to your truck no no right and so that's why I laugh when people talk about like all the trucks should should suddenly just drive away like it just doesn't work that way man like like there's a lot of chaos when just starts exploding around you right and and that needs to be taken to account I mean yeah the vehicles move a little bit but honestly I I think I wish they had like an algorithm where only a few of them would move some of them would stay but some people have this idea that they should all just unass the area and drive away yes they sitting there with the keys ready to roll yeah they're all running out of their vehicles and but like sometimes if you're smart yeah you have a game plan you're like hey if we take fire the Rally Point is 3 km to the South by this you know whatever we're going to rally and meet up there but you know some sometimes you don't have that plan you don't make that plan nice approach ruined by a terrible Landing really you bouncing ah that was all right big thanks to everybody for watching the video and a huge thanks to Jake and other patreon supporters you guys really support me in ways that I can't say thank you enough so thanks a lot for that and thanks again for everybody watching hope you enjoyed it and we'll talk to 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Length: 26min 12sec (1572 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 19 2023