Question: Never thought a SEAD mission would be so hard...

[Tomas]

Well, I believe that all the aspects of SEAD can be only abstracted at best in SP.

In real life, the aircraft conducting SEAD would not enter the map at all (with current map size) and would fire it's ARM from far away.

For example the mentioned F-16C with HARM can operate at least in three modes, if I remember right. Pre-briefed mode for known threats (missile flies to given steerpoint and activates onboard seeker), Harm as sensor mode (where it actively guides itself to emmiter from the beginning) and "datalinked" mode.

Depending on the presence of HTS module, the performance of the whole system may vary.

Now, with current systems and their anti-missile capability, the SAM site might be able to defend themselves too.

Turning off the emmiter of no longer helps with more recent ARMs, as they "remember" the emmiter location.

All in all, as I've said, it's complicated stuff and can be only abstracted in SP (which is done already). Perhaps simply adjusting the ACC of the missile (to increase POH) would help. If there was possibility to make the attack happen "off-map", it would be good too, but the SAM (especially more capable system) must retain some capability to shoot down the A/C if lucky.