Man the Turkey is a BEAST did a mission yesterday on our server running "Crack the Channel" with a human RIO
we started from a landbase with 2x AIM-9M, 1x AIM-7MH, 4x GBU-16 and one TGP we flew towards Queshm Island to bomb some Tanks.
My RIO told me that there is a Radar Contact, no IFF and we were still loaded with bombs. fortunatly it was just a freaking boat he locked up :-D
but the relief was short as AWACS and RWR screamed: "mig-23 from our 10o´clock". so i pulled hard left, full burner into them. for whatever reason both got defensive after i fired my one and only AIM-7---> missed. after that we got merged, and a short dogfight erupted, man the cat just doesnt care that she is loaded with bombs and i was able to shot down both with AIM-9´s, after both of them crashed in the gulf, no chutes, we continued our bombing mission. after the 3rd bomb drop the AWACS called "slow movers probably choppers". we dropped our last bomb on a BMP and headed for the choppers. my RIO found them and locked them up, no AA-Missiles left, gunned both of them down and stayed low afterwards because we got spiked by SAM´s. we had enough fuel left to fly to our land base but decided to divert to the carrier. got waved off on the first try and catch a 3 wire on the second. got fueled and loaded up with mk82´s and carpet bombed a convoy. after that our playtime was over. we were soaked with sweat. but it was a good mission for us and a lot of fun.