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With the railroad lines being Russia’s primary avenue to resupply, the objective in theater is to destroy or disrupt their capacity to leverage rail as a logistical tool. VFA-41 was tasked with the disruption of russian resupply and logistics. The mission was divided into 2 flights; Dealer 1 was tas...

After Action Report VFA-41 was tasked with a night time demolition of the three bridges over the Rioni River connecting Poti and the industrial village of Patara-Poti. The Russians were in the staging phase of their offensive. Two road bridges and one railroad bridge were targeted for demolition. Th...

The Truman Carrier Strike Group has passed through the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits and into the Black Sea, coupled with the continual arrival of additional U.S. and NATO units in the combat theater, it has come time to end the forward deployment period for VFA-41 and return to the Truman. VFA-4...

VFA-41 Was Tasked to destroy Tall Rack radar installation, codenamed Eye of Sauron. All flights were not to cross into Russian Air Space. The attack was coordinated between 3 Flights Dealer 1 was tasked with eliminating the primary target using standoff weapons. Dealer 2 was to eliminate the SA-11 T...

Stayed connected landed at divert, reduced capability.

Training 1 (BVR/ACM) In this Inter-Deployment Training Cycle mission VFA-41 trained on air-to-air beyond visual range (BVR) tactics and practice 1v1 ACM. TRAINING TASK 1: Division BVR Tactics VFA-41 aircraft departed from Andersen AFB in 3 Flights to designated way points to practice a "shoot and sk...

VFA-41 was tasked with destruction of the Syrian Army Base at Durayhim. Target package includes The motor pool complex. Three Large Garage Buildings and two reinforced ammunition bunkers. VFA-41 sent two flights. Dealer 1 aircraft carried 2 GBU-31 4/B and targeted the ammunition bunkers and air to a...

VFA-41 was tasked with a night operation to strike an operational SA-10 SAM site located 35 miles North of the ancient city of Palmyra, neutralize the site's radars and as many launchers as possible launchers. This SA-10 represents the longest-range SAM threat still functioning in Northern Syria, an...

VFA-41 was part of a strike package hitting targets within the city of Aleppo in order to disrupt Syrian supply lines, infrastructure and command and control networks. The target package was a Powerplant, selected as our primary target, with the adjacent Railyard as a secondary target. VFA-41 was di...