Broken Arrow – Guide to Planes Controls, Radars and Sead

Planes Controls, Radars and Sead

Planes Controls

Planes are controlled like the other units but have some restrictions:

• They cannot be resupplied on the map, they need to be sent back to base.
• You must send them back to base before they run out of fuel otherwise the pilot is forced to eject.
• They do not see ground units on their own.

Most planes can fly in high or low altitude. Flying low makes you harder to lock onto by long range surface to air missiles but you need to fly high to drop bombs and make diving attacks. Heavy planes like IL-76 and Tu-160 can only fly in high altitude.

Activate the afterburner to improve the performance of the aircraft at the cost of a much higher fuel consumption.

Select the bombing or strafing run and validate the position and orientation of the strike with a drag and drop on the map.

Use the precision strike order (shortcut P) to fire cruise missiles and drop smart bombs.

You can press the button or the shortcut multiple times then validate multiple positions on the map to attack multiple positions at the same time.

Radars and Sead

Some anti aircraft units are equipped with radar. Activating this ability doubles the detection and shooting distance against planes flying high and gives +25% against helicopters and planes flying low.

In return activating the radar makes you a target for anti-radiation missiles. These missiles carried by planes and some helicopters automatically lock onto the radar emissions of your unit to destroy it.

It takes 5 seconds to activate the radar but it can be turned off immediately, in which case the anti-radiation missiles will miss their target.

When the radar is active a green radar icon appears on the label of the unit.