Beef and i flew a 2-ship OCA strike at haeju yestrday, he took lead and i flew around him trying to snap some screenshots and record everything.
We had some SA-5 spikes on the way to the target, but we knew we're out of range so i continued to fly close formation (or at least try to...) and take some picturs.
As we got close to the target area Beef switched to AG mode and dropped his bombs while i stayed in AA for cover, I recived 21 nails close on the nose and i also detected a 2 ship takeing off about 40nm out ahead, however beef was done bombing so i datalinked the scramblers to him and asked him to take over the AA so i can drop my bombs and we can get out of there.
I quickly realized that my coordinates are off, and understood that i fergot to recon the target prior to the flight, so i had to mess with the TGP and correct this. During that time i had to turn around a couple of times due to mig21 spikes on my tail, mig 23 spikes and an SA5 launch at max range, but eventually i got my bombs off and we turned away from the target to make our escape. During all the manuvering i lost my situational awerness and it's safe to say i would have died if not for our trusty 4-ship escort flight. Beef also defnded aginst the SA-5's and AAA, all these threats were defeted sucsessfuly.
On the way home we looked for some AA action but we couldn't find any enemy aircrafts close enougth, we therfore decided to head home, at which point the radar operator of a hawk battry on the ground decided that he is very jelous of us, and my ears should pay the price... So with my RWR out of the normal handoff mode we both cruised back home and i got back to aerial photography:
Getting closer to home plate Beef decided to roll over and make a steep dive towards the airfield, i follow him in a little less then 1 mile trail but due to poor throttle managment i end up passing very close to him and another aircraft, ensuring that our CO will kick my ass as soon as we land...
But as the cool fighter pilots we are we decided that we didn't have enougth trouble and we should go for a formation landing, we arrive on the final a little low and slow and my wobbley flying almost sends me into Beef upon touch-down but we manege to get on the ground safely.
The strike was sucssesfull with the runway and some equipment at haeju destroyed, aswell as 2 mig21's, 2 mig23's and 2 mig29's destroyed by the rest of the package.
Download ACMI file
Click hereTo play the acmi file you just have to download it then open it with tacview.
I have recorded the flight, but my micerophone didn't quite pick up my voice, i'll try to edit the video and fix that, along with some other things so i can upload it, if sucssesful i will add a link to the video here.
Thanks a lot for an awsome flight Beef! hope to fly with you again soon!