05/07/22 Faux Fulda Back to the 80's

[Sapper]

Andrew

Check miz looks right from a 3(F) perspective, thank you.

[0405 Andrew]

Cheers Sapper,

I have noticed that that the check miz has been downloaded just 1 time, so please don't blame me if there has been an error introduced. The miz is checked and rechecked, but as in real life a new set of eyes is good practice. View it as a walkaround prior to taking off.

[Hendo]

Hey Andrew,

AAR from 1(F)

Due to some cancellations, we took off with five aircraft. Ingress was tricky due to low vis and bad weather. We managed to get bombs on target at the command post. Bombs were delivered via a loft attack and did manage to render the command post inoperable. A dozen or so infantry and officers have been killed or wounded. The communications mast have been hit by frag damage, but not fully destroyed. We lost one aircraft during the attack who took a missile from a SA-19. One BTR also got destroyed and a few damaged by cluster munitions. The four remaining aircraft landed safely at the field hide. All in all a good result seeing the difficult conditions.

Thank you Andrew for hosting and creating this mission. All the boys in our flight really loved it. It was a blast and a real challenge (also good fun to restrict the use of smart weapons). We had plenty of code brown moments when we got a little too close to some peaks.

Hendo

[Sapper]

3(F) AAR

3(F) Sqn mustered 6 pilots for this mission, organised in 2 flights. Ford 1 took on the SEAD and Escort role with 2 jets whilst Ford 2, with 4 jets, targeted the transport hub. We took off as FRAGed at 0510Z from Min Vody and climbed steadily to altitude for a best endurance ingress. We held short in an orbit before turning in to achieve our TOT of 0550Z. Spyker (Ford 1-1) killed the SA-6 covering our target area whilst Ford 2 dropped to low level to strike the transport hub. Despite the poor visibility Sapper (Ford 2-1) and Red Rooster (Ford 2-2) dropped snake-eyes on the train and containers respectively from ~500' and 450 kts+. Beanie (Ford 2-3) and Danny (Ford 2-4) followed 1 mile in trail at ~3000' to hit the trucks with cluster bombs and the command bunker with Mk 84s respectively. Beanie's bombs failed to drop so he very bravely (foolishly?!!) flew back over the target area and tried again. This time they released and trucks were hit but then so was he. Leaking fuel at an alarming rate he limped away from the immediate target area and managed to dead stick land his Viper in the cold, desolate snow fields of enemy territory. When last heard from Beanie asked us to pass on his love and admiration to Andrew for setting up tonight's mission before he zeroised his data cartridge, smashed his radios and went off in search of the local talent. The remainder flew home to Min Vody with heavy hearts where we landed safely, broke into Beanie's locker and nicked all his kit. I got his boots.

To echo Beanie's comments, thanks to Andrew for all his hard work, as always. We enjoyed tonight's mission and look forward to the next instalment of "3 go mad in Vipers"...

[0405 Andrew]

Thankyou Hendo and Sapper that's very kind of you. Great write ups, thankyou.

My pc crashed so I was unable to get a Tacview, please could someone send me a copy.

It looks like a trigger was deleted by me somewhere and I missed it in the final miz. The mig 29's never spawned, sorry CAW I hope it wasn't too boring.

[Luis]

If possible I also would like to see the tackview, a misterious SA-9 showed up, shot me and I couldn't see it later in F-10 map. Also don't remember to see any warning on RWR.
I had no idea we could have SAM threats on our ops area.

[Paul(Dragon)0043]

Luis, an SA-9 is an Infrared Missile System, It doesn't use Radar to find you(Optics instead), hence RWR doesn't flash up. Unless your MWS see the missiles initial launch flare, you don't get a warning.

Paul.

[Luis]

Thanks Paul. Never had a close view on how chase Strelas, and with that weather was impossible to identify any thing. But still, I couldn't see it in F10 map, maybe was set as hidden. Any way, if I don't get the tackview I will have a look in the trk / miz file. (I didn't updated it and didn't recorded)
Any way, or it should't be in our ops area, or we should have some intel before TO.
I was right above target releasing a CBU from east to west, so I wasn't out of ops area.

[Hendo]

I don’t think we can expect the most detailed intel on missions that is 100% accurate. Fog of war is always a factor. When facing a conventional force, you can always expect manpads, strela launcher vehicles or zu23’s to defend large formations of enemy vehicles

[Father Cool]

CAW - CAP Flight AAR

11F & 892NAS combined under the CAW banner to provide top cover for 1F in the form of 2x F-14 flown by myself and Boos and 2x F/A-18 flow by Neil and Lee. Start up and launch were uneventful despite myself and Boos trying to slow proceedings by both of us overshooting the shuttle during hook up to the catapults, requiring a run around. The F-14s were first to launch and orbited the carrier to allow the F/A-18's to also get airborne prior to transit to our CAP co-ordinates. The decision was made to transit to WP3 as our initial station (the furthest from the front line) to give time for the two flights to set up a patrol.

Despite the bad weather during our climb out all aircraft reached our initial CAP station in similar time whereon both F-14 aircraft identified airborne threats approaching from the northwest. The two F-14's were immediately dispatched to intercept with the two F/A18's following behind as support. The single lead bandit was dispatched by the forward F-14 as two further contacts were identified inbound. The second wave of bandits were then engaged by myself using 2x AIM54's both of which hit their targets. A further unidentified target was picked up by my radar and Neil was able to IFF it as hostile and subsequently engage and destroy the aircraft as both Tomcats peeled away to allow safe engagement by the F/A-18's.

Following the first engagement a racetrack CAP was established with the F-14's on one leg and the F/A-18's taking the opposing run to maintain radar coverage to the north at all times. Moving forward this would be preferable to be arranged as an F-14 and F/A-18 in each pair to make use of the AWG-9's extended range combined with the F/A-18's improved SA ability. This is something that CAW should practice in order to fully integrate 11F and 882NAS operationally.

During this patrol a third F-14 joined us piloted by Funky, he was instructed to join the F/A-18 wing in order to bolster their radar and long range capability. Another bandit was detected and dispatched by Funky on his arrival which lead to further BRA calls from overlord indicating enemy aircraft low and inbound. Funky was sent to investigate however no sightings were made of this aircraft before Overlord called his radar as clean.

CAP patrol was resumed as previously executed and shortly afterwards the F/A-18's called RTB as they were running low on fuel and out of tanker range. The F-14's remained on station for another half an hour prior to all indications pointing to end-ex and low fuel state.

The transit back to the carrier was uneventful and culminated in all aircraft returning to base via a case 3 low visibility landing. No CAW aircraft were lost and no enemy aircraft were reported to have gotten through the CAW BARCAP.

In all enjoyable and the first real test of CAW working together coherently on mission night. Well done everyone.