FSX AI Soviet Missile Boats
More targets for the naval strike community… The 1967 sinking of the INS Eilat(former RN Z class DD Zealous) by SSN-2 STYX armed KOMAR missile boats (P186 torpedo boats fitted with 2 SSN-2/P-15 Termit launchers) threw western navies into a panic, and spurred development of a whole range of tactical SSM’s (Exocet, Harpoon, Ottomat ect) and fast attack craft. Of greater value was the development of ECM, decoy systems (RBOC/SRBOC) and various CWIS systems. The Israeli Navy showed that the Soviet KOMAR’s and OSA’s Styx system was far from overpowering at the Battle of Latakia on 7 Oct 1973, where, in the first naval battle fought between Missile boats; the INS showed that skillful use of ECM and decoys could decisively defeat the Soviet sytems, despite STYX having twice the range of the GABRIEL I SSM. Widely exported, the OSA I and OSA II boats and NANUCHKA missile corvettes proved something of a liability in actions in the Gulf of Sidra and Gulf wars, though the Indian Navy made good use of their OSA’s in 1971 (Operation TRIDENT and PYTHON) This package contains FSX Native OSA I and II Missile boats, NANUCHKA I Missile Corvette, Zhuk Patrol boat, for AICarriers2, and a gyppo pilotable OSA I
