h00t74 Posted April 19, 2010 Posted April 19, 2010 Today at Noon Local time, The Virtual 66th was called upon to assist friendly ground units in stopping a Russian advance from the North across the river near Dapnari. The bridges were needed to stay intact for future use for Allies. Today, The Virtual 66th Fighter wing took to the air for the first time. In total there were 2 F-15s and 5 A-10s. Things did not go well for ground units who were in the mix already. Some SU-25s showed up and ruined the plan for ground forces to hold. Soon after Yellow Jacket(Us Infantry Units) called Broken Arrow for all Air Assets in region as most Armor and Bradleys were destroyed and they were about to be overrun. Russian forces detecting the air power scrambled some Mig-23s and some MI-8s to reinforce the area. Socom was enroute being directed by AWACS provided by the USS Carl Vinson. The Mig-23s break to try and get an estimate on US aircraft. Soon the Migs had a target and opened fire. In V66th tradition, the Newly appointed XO of the unit was the first casualty(Thumper was first last week) Didn’t even see it coming :lol: Soon Thumper merged with the Migs and was in for the fight of his life(Virtually) With the superior turning power, Thumper got eyes on a Mig Meanwhile, Thumper’s wingman 2ndLt. Mace was not so lucky.
h00t74 Posted April 19, 2010 Author Posted April 19, 2010 This shows how close Thumper was with the Migs in the turning fight. Suddenly, the Mig is right in front of Thumper and he fires. WHAT?!?!?!? An A-10 gets an Air to Air kill. By this time, the second element of A-10s was coming on station at the front. An SA-8 quickly engages 2ndlt.Ice as he strays a little to far east from the front. Ice evaded 2 SAMs but he could not escape the third. Cpt. Typh was able to let a couple Mavericks loose. 2ndLt. PishPosh dropped some eggs trying to prevent some T-80s from reinforcing Infantry that had inserted with the MI-8s. Wind must have pushed the Mk-82s over the bridge as it was hit. Cpt. Typh did several cannon runs trying to clean up. The F-15s orbited the area with Cap and called out targets they saw from tracer fire. With Mission Accomplished, The Virtual 66th returned home. Despite both bridges coming down causing severe infrastructure problems, Civilian casualties were limited to 25 in a bus that strayed into the area. The Virtual 66th took 1 F-15 lost, and two A-10 losses. While they destroyed numerous ground targets and took out 1 Air to Air Target. The USS Carl Vinson’s F-18 on station with the AWAC took out the other two.
Moa Posted April 19, 2010 Posted April 19, 2010 Nice screenies. Thanks for posting. Always looks good having folks in action together.
zakobi Posted April 19, 2010 Posted April 19, 2010 Nice telling, it must have been fun ;) Which reminds me of, would it be possible to get a story telling thread for threads like this?
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