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A fifth KC-135MPRS, callsign Texaco 4-1, TACAN 12X, 295.00 AM has taken up station in a racetrack pattern between Naquora and Haifa alongside the coast for better refuelling on ingress and egress. All Dealer flight paths share two common waypoints - waypoint 4 (AL-TANF MILITARY BASE) and waypoint 8 ...

CDR (Mr)Bean assigned as Mission Commander

CAPT Trim on standby

SITUATION ISIS (but the ones that prefer to be called ISIL) have been repelled from the border crossing with Syria and Iraq, and Coalition forces have established a forward base at Al Tanf. ISIL have begun regular rocket, artillery and mortar attacks on the base and stepped up attacks elsewhere in ...

Mission Commander: CAPT Trim

Standby: every other present MC

These are always fun. Weather is clear, there are no scripts, there's only one trigger to launch a recovery tanker 40 minutes in (via f10 menu). Mission time is noon local. There are no enemy air threats. There is only one ground threat, KS-19 AAA with SON-9 fire control radars for Dealer 1's area. ...

3x flights of Hornets departed mother in quite particularly shitty weather conditions at 7 am local for a preplanned close air support strike at the border crossing between Syria and Jordan, seized and fortified by ISIL militants. All planes successfully released laser-guided bombs that were guided ...

All flight waypoints (except F-14):
1) Departure
2) Feet Dry
3) Initial Point
4) Target Area (fixed to ground level)
5) Egress
6) Damascus Runway touchdown aimpoint (fixed to ground level) <---- only if necessary to divert
7) Egress
8) Feet Wet
9) Recovery

Descending order of MC assigned in case of drop out:

1) Lion
2) Trim - rescues cats from trees
3) Hedgehog - gets comcast'd
4) Rhino

SITUATION all Coalition military forces are still prohibited from transiting Lebanese airspace . Chinese air defense fighters are not flying in this weather but have reportedly set up radar-guided air defenses cued by search radars. MISSION There is a major weather system over the target area today...

technically yes but unless that SA-5 gets suppressed or destroyed then no one gets to fly above 1000 feet