Night ground attack

I love the f5e module, the flight model is fun to fly, the systems are fairly simple but as close to life as possible and the module is well made.

I would like to perform night ground attack missions such as would have been flown in the Vietnam war by phantoms. I read a great autobiography "war for the he'll of it" that captured my imagination.

I dont knkw how they did it in RL. I guess using Tacan navigation I should be able to find a given target at night and then after visually identifying it, I could use dumb bombs, rockets and guns before heading home.

The only thing missing would be air to air refuelling. Is this how it would have been done, and would I be better off with a different module.

You are correct in that you'll mostly be flying and attacking your targets visually. The F-5E is really not much more than a day VFR fighter.

You can task certain planes to drop illumination flares for you which will make your life easier at night.

If you don't want to use illumination bombs you can also put a few friendly ground units in the vicinity to activate when you are entering the area. That'll get you a few tracers flying and (likely) one or two burning vehicles to guide you in.

As stupid as it may sound, a common way of finding targets in the night are lights, fires and the like, that your target puts on in order to see where the hell they are going themselves.