FC2.0: F15C: Campaign Mission 7 AAR

[Ven]

After a series of attacks, I guess Russians are taking it easy as I'm on CAP duty this evening.

 

It's a beautiful evening anyway so let's take a stroll.

 

Oh good... looks like we'll be getting some action afterall! 4-ship Flanker and 4-ship Frogfoot. Not too shabby.

 

They're coming over those mountains this time.

 

Confirmed and cleared to intercept just as I was turning back towards waypoint 2.

 

SA-10 Big Bird out there. Better stay away from that area. And my wing telling me that Flankers are bracketing. It would actually help me out since they'd be easier to target.

 

Here's the first picture I got on my radar. Two jammers are probably from the Flankers... they always seem to have it on. And Frogfoots at medium altitude. I can't tell if the Flankers are in front or behind the Frogfoots at this point.

 

I thought about launching on the SU-25's first... but Flankers should be the priority here... they're closing while I'm hesitating.

 

I figured I was already close to the ECM burn through range so I decided to wait. And it shows the Flankers slightly behind the Frogfoots at 25K altitude. Locked 3 of them and ordered 3 to engage my target and cover me command to 2 and 4.

 

Just as I'm giving orders, I fired 3 AIM-120C's. Fox 3! I didn't capture a screenshot but my next maneuver as always is to turn away.

 

Later analysis of the track file shows how the enemy responds to my tactic. Just as I expected, they launch R-27ER first.

 

And then go defensive to my attack. I love it when my plan works out. This should give my wingmen better odds.

 

Flanker kills. It seems that those who ejected have quite a hike over those mountains.

 

Frogfoot kills. All belongs to my wingmen... they didn't leave any for me!

 

While rejoining formation, wing 2 pulls a stunt. Perhaps he was serious about wanting to transfer to Thunderbirds.

 

Compared to some earlier missions, this was actually a walk in the park.

 

We were cleared RTB but since we still had quite a bit of ammo and fuel left, I decided to continue the CAP. Hoping for some more action.

 

Only action we got was creating this contrails superhighway for an hour. I wont be doing that again.

 

Debriefing shows that of the three AIM-120C's I fired, two of them found their way into two Flankers. Was a bit surprised as I didn't expect them to make a kill.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

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Edited April 24, 2010 by Ven

[funkee]

Thanks for posting :) Good job at them.

[twoods7333]

Ven, I successfully downed all enemy aircraft and completed 6-1/2 Waypoint #2-to-Waypoint #3 CAP cycles (despite being told to RTB) but I still don't have any other waypoints except #2 and #3, much less an ILSN waypoint for landing. I tried landing manually but got no "Mission Completed" from the game. :-(

Edited May 3, 2011 by twoods7333

[DarkFire]

Excellent after-action report :thumbup:

[twoods7333]

At last!! Apparently my first manual landing attempt must have sucked because, after much persistence (and , again, without waypoint or ILSN) I finally got a "Mission Complete."