DCS World 1.5 Mig-21bis - Flares That Lit the Fires Inside

[Asid]

Sunday, November 6, 2016
By: JC
DCS World 1.5 Mig-21bis - Flares That Lit the Fires Inside 

June, 1980 something. Col. Evgeny Nudler has been deployed to the Vaziani Airbase (near Tiblisi) as a first responder to a political crisis that is spinning out of control. After a successful strike on separatist vehicles bivouacking at the Dinamo Arena, the commander of the Soviet forces placed a priority on the agitators that were about to move into Tiblisi proper for a massive demonstration downtown. It was an unusually hot, dark-pitch night and no less than 34 buses were observed in the April Garden park  (a few hundred meters west of the Mtkvari river) along with thousands of demonstrators camping under the trees. HUMINT, always easy to get from civilians, indicated that the demonstrators were to transported by bus via the Saarbruecken bridge early the next day.


Time of take off: 2300. Flight: 1 Mig-21 piloted by Col. Nudler. Mission: destroy the Saarbruecken bridge in order to disrupt demonstrations in Tiblisi. Loadout: S24B rockets.



Support: 1 Mi-8 helicopter armed with S-80M illumination rockets.



Below, the lights of Tiblisi helped Col. Nudler to keep a relatively low altitude without colliding with the ground. The Mi-8 helicopter was to illuminate the bridge with the S-80M illumination rockets. Nudler was lucky that the Mi-8's engineer was a local and very knowledgeable of the city itself. Otherwise, in an era when GPS was not common issue among the Soviet Air Force, the mission execution would have been impossible.



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[Longknife]

Great write up! Night missions in the Fishbed are especially challenging.