@HuskyDynamics01 thank you for these methods. it helped me out

There's quite a few viable methods:

• Use cannons (the CIWS lasers can't target cannon shells)
• Get closer (releasing weapons later means the CIWS has less time to lock and destroy them)
• Use more (If you fire like 12 missiles you might be able to overwhelm the CIWS since it can only target one at a time and takes a few seconds for each missile)
  

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However, the most effective option is probably to just fly around behind the base and drop a bomb or two as you pass over it, since you'll be out of view of both the launchers and the CIWS.

There's a spot on the 5 o' clock position of the ice base where you can put a boom 50 and it will usually take put everything there
Or take a vtol aircraft, fly to that spot and start blasting

Use post stall manuverable planes so you can dodge missile better and carry alot of missiles

The riskiest I've done but also the most rewarding (without XML-ing anything) is drop two Boom 50s at a distance of 0.7nm/0.8m/1.2km so you wouldn't give the laser CIWS time to pre-detonate them.
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Just be sure to pack alot of countermeasures

Use cannons that work for me