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Hint: When flying a mission that doesn't have a time limit, periodically return
to your home air base or carrier to repair damage and reload weapons. Both are
rarely more than a few minutes away, and this can be the key to surviving and
completing many of the game's tougher missions.
Hint: The game will allow you to lock up ground targets with air-to-air
missiles and vice versa, so feel free to improvise with whatever you've got
the most of.
Hint: The best way to spoof incoming missiles is to dial your radar down to its
minimum range so that you can see its inbound red icon more closely; then yank
and bank abruptly just before a missile hits while pumping out plenty of chaff
and flares (or better yet, turn on auto chaff/flares at the options menu).
to your home air base or carrier to repair damage and reload weapons. Both are
rarely more than a few minutes away, and this can be the key to surviving and
completing many of the game's tougher missions.
Hint: The game will allow you to lock up ground targets with air-to-air
missiles and vice versa, so feel free to improvise with whatever you've got
the most of.
Hint: The best way to spoof incoming missiles is to dial your radar down to its
minimum range so that you can see its inbound red icon more closely; then yank
and bank abruptly just before a missile hits while pumping out plenty of chaff
and flares (or better yet, turn on auto chaff/flares at the options menu).