User Guide
WEAPON LOADOUT
Depending on your mission tasking you may need to alter your default loadout. If you are tasked to
hunt down and destroy an enemy submarine, you don’t want your tubes full of land attack missiles
and your racks full of anti-ship missiles.The time to change your loadout is before you get
underway. From the Weapons Loadout screen you can change the weapons loaded in the tubes,
change the number and type of stored weapons, and adjust the loadout of your countermeasures.
The weapons available for each sub class vary but the method for changing the loadout is basically
the same in each controllable submarine.The 688(I) class has an additional loadout screen to
accommodate the vertical launch tubes and the Akula classes have an extra screen for their
external tubes.
Whenever an item is selected in the drop-down list information about the selected item appears in
the information window.
To change the loadout in torpedo and VLS tubes:
1.
In the Mission Brief screen click
WEAPON LOADOUT
.The Tubes loadout screen appears.The
current loadout is represented by numbered, colored dots on a wire frame representation of the
ship’s hull.The numbers represent the tube number.The name of the weapon loaded in each
tube is seen in the drop-down list associated with each tube number.The color of a dot on the
wire frame coincides with the color assigned to represent each specific weapon.
2.
Click the arrow in a weapon drop-down list associated with a specific tube and select a different
weapon from the list to change the weapon loaded in that tube.
3.
Change loadout in Stores or CMs (countermeasures) before clicking
OK
.
■ In the 688(I) class, click
VLS
to alter the loadout in the ships Vertical Launch System (VLS)
tubes. Changes are made as described above.
■ In the Akula Classes,click
INNER TUBES
to change the loadout in the ship’s internal tubes. Click
OUTER TUBES
to change the loadout in the six tubes that are external to the pressure hull.
Changes are made as described in the steps above.
4.
Click
OK
to implement all of your changes and return to the Mission Brief screen.
5.
Click
CANCEL
to ignore any changes you make on any of the screens and return to the Mission
Brief screen.
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Information Window
Tubes
Stores
Countermeasures
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