The enemy continues to try to push south and coalition forces continue to hold them back.
Your task is to attack forces approaching the front line. Your primary target shall be the 1st Tank Battalion, consisting in part of 16 x T-62 battle tanks. The unit is at 80% strength. To the north of them is the 3rd Motor Rifle Battalion (39%) that has 2 x SA-9s in convoy together. North of that group is the 4th Towed Artillery Battalion (82%)
The mission is to focus on the 1st Tank Battalion.
Your package is No 3, consisting of two flights of four F-16C-40CMs. The escort is Viper 4 and the AI is Jackal 6.
Take off is at 06:40 and 06:42 respectively, but take off as a package as soon as you are able.
Mission Success Criteria; Jackal 6 - 8 x T-62's destroyed for the flight. Viper 4 - No AA losses to the package.
Partial Success Criterai; Jackal 6 - 6 x T-62's detroyed for the flight. Viper 4 - 1 x AA loss to the package.
Flight distance is 236nm. Weather is sunny with light winds from 290°. Cloud base is 35K'.
A short distance mission so we loaded up with 6 x AGM-65D and 4 x CBU-87 bombs (noodle to GBU 12s for the SA-9's). No tanks so fuel was a crucial factor and setting Joker at 4000lbs was important.
We boresited the Maverics on the way but 3 had a tech with his Sniper pod. Moving to the target at FL200 we found numerous targets but identifying T-62's was difficult and units were not in the expected locations. Nevertheless we set up a counter clockwise circuit to deliver the Maverics first followed by the clusters. Noodle attacked the SA-9 locations with his GBUs with good effect, but it turned out that intel had underestimated the numbers.
I fired my Mavs but according to the acmi (which is on the TS debrief flie browser) all my Mavs went for a day trip somewhere else. Not sure why as they were locked up. Others had better luck and our clusters had devastating effect as well.
Among other kills, including numerous SA-9s, we killed fourteen T-62's. Good job.
Unfortunately No3 was hit by one of the remaining SA-9s while flying a little too low. The rest RTB'd with about 1400lbs of fuel remaining. So good fuel management as well. Good job all.
Hold The Line 14 (5th July 2020)
Posted - 29 Jun 2020 : 16:27:21
