RAF vs Luftwaffe

Command the airforce in the historical Battle of Britain.

The operational loop

Contact. Decision. Consequence.

You do not steer every aircraft. You command the system that discovers a threat, prepares a response, sends people into the air, and absorbs the result.

01
Detection

Radar and observers report uncertain contacts. Weather, range, and incomplete information shape what you know.
Contact · confidence · track
02
Planning

Classify the raid, weigh the risk, and assign available forces without stripping another sector bare.
Priority · force · timing
03
Mission

Squadrons launch into a changing situation. Basing, readiness, routes, and opposition decide what reaches the target.
Launch · intercept · effect
04
Consequence

Losses, damage, fatigue, and campaign effects return to the system. Tomorrow begins with what remains.
Loss · repair · replacement

Build your air power.

Airframes, engines, radios, sights, and protection systems all belong to the same force-building problem. Explore the launch air forces down to their equipment.

Open the air-force dossiers

Spitfire Mk I game artwork — Airframe Spitfire Mk I

Rolls-Royce Merlin engine game artwork — Powerplant Rolls-Royce Merlin

FuG 7 radio equipment game artwork — System FuG 7 radio

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4 game artwork — Airframe Bf 109 E-4

Air power is a flow

A sortie starts long before take-off.

Research choices change what can be built. Production fills units. Serviceability and crews determine what can fly. Missions create losses that must be repaired or replaced.

Research Production Serviceability Crews Missions Losses & replacement

Research / Production

Choose the force you will have—not the one you wish you had.

Historical defaults provide a grounded starting point. Manual control lets you own the priorities and accept their downstream cost.

Research priorities and programme timing
Production allocation and delivery
Aircraft, engines, weapons, and supporting capability

Air War Sonar research programmes and aircraft dossier screen — Research programmes connect technical choices to the force available later.

Production / Readiness

From factory to flight.

Ownership alone is not readiness. Aircraft must be delivered, based, serviced, crewed, and matched to missions.

Production lines and output
Serviceable aircraft and unit strength
Airfields, maintenance, crews, and operational reach

Air War Sonar production controls over a strategic map — Production is visible in the same strategic context as bases and operations.

Missions / Effects

Support a wider war you do not directly control.

Armies and fleets act autonomously and request air support. You decide how scarce air power answers those requests while defending your own objectives.

Mission planning and force assignment
Weather, radar, range, and operational constraints
Explainable losses and campaign effects

Air War Sonar mission planning screen over southern England and the Channel — Mission planning brings force, route, timing, and purpose together.

Playable launch campaign

Battle of Britain.
Two commands. No scripted result.

Take command of the RAF or Luftwaffe from 10 July to 31 October 1940. Historical defaults establish a credible starting state; manual decisions determine what follows.

Time: Real-time with pause
Commands: RAF and Luftwaffe
World: Real locations, weather, radar, industry, and airfields
Outcomes: Dynamic and explainable

Air War Sonar Battle of Britain campaign selection screen — Historical campaign setup with RAF and Luftwaffe command choices.

Historical credibility

Grounded enough to inspect.
Open enough to change.

Sourced inputs

Aircraft, locations, units, and historical starting conditions are built from documented data.

Explainable outcomes

The result follows from visible objects, constraints, and decisions rather than hidden narrative scripting.

Player-owned decisions

Historical presets remain a default, not a rail. Manual control makes the consequences yours.

Gameplay & captures

See the command system at work.

The gameplay trailer is in preparation. The captures below are taken from the current game.

Mission planning gameplay capture used as the trailer poster

Research programmes and aircraft dossier — Research programmes

Production controls and strategic map — Production control

Battle of Britain campaign selection — Campaign command

Awaiting orders

The Steam page is not public yet.

AirWarSonar.com will link directly to the verified page when it is ready. No guessed URL. No invented date.

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