Tight Deck: Three Jets, Seven Drones, Three Questions

The brief the trainee reads

You are the console operator at a single defended site. Radar is fixed on a 120-degree sector centred 090; nothing behind that arc exists for you, and low tracks may sit under the tilt until you reposition it. Detection is class-dependent: jets out to 150 km, helicopters 100 km, small unmanned tracks only 50 km — anything small will be found already inside the medium ring. Engagement rings are 70 km long, 50 km medium, 20 km short, with a 5 km inner limit. Hard system constraint: no more than two rockets may be in the air at once; a third engagement cannot begin until one resolves as hit, kill or miss. You hold twelve rounds in total across the three interceptor types for a raid the surveillance picture assesses at ten hostiles. Classification of any track showing Unknown is referred to the commander, who answers in about fifteen seconds when he answers at all; nothing may be fired on unless it reads Enemy. The picture at start-up is not the picture you will fight. Work the queue, keep the launchers earning, and expect to give something up.

What counts as success

Pass: the three jets are engaged first, each at the earliest valid firing solution, and the drone wave is then worked as a continuous queue with both launchers kept employed. No more than two hostiles penetrate inside the 5 km inner limit, and no jet is among them. Every Unknown track is referred; no round is fired at any track not reading Enemy. Firing on CASTLE-11, RELAY-07 or SCOUT-22 fails the run outright regardless of hostiles killed. Holding fire while both rockets are committed is correct behaviour, not inaction; breaking or switching a committed engagement is scored as an error even if the outcome is favourable.

At most 2 hostiles may reach the defended area.