Crush Enemy Ships with the Harpoon Missile in the DCS F-18

Learn how to effectively use the AGM-84D Harpoon missile in DCS F1-8 to sink ships in DCS World. This tutorial will guide you through the process of naval strike missions in the game. We will spawn into our F-18 inisde of DCS World and learn how to setup the Harpoon Missile and crush enemy ships while trying to stay alive from a deadly Russian Cruiser.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Initial Setup
02:11 SEA Radar
03:15 Using the TGP
03:53 SEA Radar on Enemy Ship
04:43 Harpoon Setup
07:25 Harpoons Away!
08:18 TACVIEW
08:46 Outro

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Hey pilots! Tricker here and I want to welcome you to my channel on combat aviation. I’m a real world pilot in the Airbus 319/320/321 series and I enjoy DCS World, Falcon BMS, Falcon 4.0, IL-2 Sturmovik, X-plane 11, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

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[charlies]

Just bought 3 AGM-84D Harpoon missiles and 1 F/A-18c Hornet because of this video. Thanks!

[Laerei]

I tried using Harpoons in a multiplayer mission once but couldn't figure out how. Now couple of years later I'm a bit hyped for Sea Power and decided that i wanna do some carrier warfare in DCS, so naturally I need to learn how to use the darned things. And thanks to you, I now know how! Neat!

[faelwolf]

The Moskva is a lot easier to find IRL now that it's stationary, but might still be hard to get a harpoon on it. :)

[BKAUS]

In our group, we tend to run a 2 or 3 F-18 strike with 2 or 3 sorties of 12 TALD'S to drain the enemies SA missiles, then run in with 4 Harpoon's. Seems to work fairly well most of the time.

[JesterDarrak]

Don't forget that the Harpoon is also capable of A2A engagements (especially against alien space ships) as depicted in the documentary "Independence Day" by renown German filmmaker Roland Emmerich.

[jpiercelt]

Love it man, these are great! Might I also add that your voice just absolutely fits with all this and the narration is awesome!! And the clips are hilarious lol, you're killing it dude!

[Account-idyo]

I see Tricker, i click.... Great video

[ismaeljordaVR]

Good tutorial, Tricker. Thank you so much. You are one of the few who correctly explain that the SEEK function refers to the search area distance of the missile and not the size of the ship.

[rdegulielmo]

nicely done Tricker! Really helpful! -your neighbor RayGunRob

[JeremyD]

Thanks for the refresher! Its so weird that not all weapons use the same button press scheme for fuctions like locking. But I guess different contractors, different software & methods.

You need to hit the slava class with at least x7 harpoons (usually more) to knock it out in dcs, or x24 gbu 38’s set to pen mode. It’s really silly imo. I doubt it will change but I really wish they’d make weapons a bit more effective vs ships when they hit.

[tonybalogna]

You've heard of elf on a shelf, now get ready for bruiser on a cruiser

[valuedhumanoid]

I have never seen a Harpoon hit a warship yet by a single jet. If they don't get shot down by SAMs, then the CIWS always intercepts them. So to score a hit, I send a 4 ship attack group. Two, including me, have Harpoons and the other two have TALDS. Like you said earlier, the goal is to saturate the airspace. It can be tricky to get the timing right tho. You need the TALDs out in front and drawing the bulk of the fire, but not too far that they take out the decoys and then just take out your missiles. But when you get it right it's a thing of beauty. And the AI that launches the decoys is flakey at best. In a multiplayer server with all humans it would be much easier.

[GoldenGnu]

Thank you for sharing the mission file and thanks for all your great tutorials!

[KOOLURATOOLGaming]

FYI, to bypass long range defenses of ships, fly below 30ft until 10-20 miles from the target. Pop up to 300-400ft and fire off your Harpoons.

[eknight]

Thanks for this tutorial sir. It just so happens that The Blue Blasters is my old squadron. But when I was a part of it back in the early 90's it was actually called the VA 34 Blueblasters and our aircraft was the A-6 Intruder before it was eventually decomissioned. I'm not sure when it became a VFA squadron.

[OskarOKY]

Hi Tricker. Can you please help me or anyone here? At 2:05 the 25s alignment ends and the HPD symbol uncross. In my Hornet after 25s of HPD alignment the symbol is still a cross and won't let me fire the harpoon. I'll just add that I have Master arm and A/G ON. I've seen a lot of Harpoon tutorial videos and I still don't know where I'm going wrong. Does anyone know please?😔

[michaellagana]

This is a great mission! Any reason why I am struggling to detect the ships with the SEA Radar? I can fly straight at the target, be well within 80mile range and it just doesnt detect anything? Anyone have an advice?

[US.NVG.]

Awesome video tricker, keep it up man!

[rudelchw]

Great Tutorial, nice detail the sharing of the mission ... glad to be subscribed, love your channel.