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Hedgehog wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:25 pm

Why do the DMPI altitudes appear as negative numbers?

Ehhh, I didn't consider that when typing it out. They're just hyphens to help differentiate it from the rest of the coordinates. All target altitudes are above sea level.

SITUATION The loss of the Russian amphibious landing force has dealt a significant blow to Russia’s combat power in the western Georgia area of operations. EUCOM has confirmed five of six LST’s were sunk with the sixth heavily damaged and limping back toward Novorossiysk. In addition, the Russian N...

The Black Aces of VFA-41 were tasked, along with various other air wing assets to locate and destroy a flotilla of enemy tank landing ships sailing down the coast, likely an attempt by the Russians to land troops and armor behind the southern Georgian line along the Rioni River. Seven Black Aces wer...

Civilian shipping is present, but not expected to be in the immediate search area. Positive ID should be possible with the FLIR. Expect to launch Harpoons well inside their max range.

SITUATION With the only viable rail line between Russia and the western front line now severed, Russian forces are being forced to use less efficient means and methods to resupply and reinforce their front line units. Intelligence assets have been monitoring the build up of Russian naval units at t...

SITUATION Bravo Zulu on the destruction of those A-50 Mainstays Black Aces! With them destroyed, the Russians are scrambling to redirect and field other ground based radar and EW assets from different regions, but in the meantime any coordinated response to our continued sorties will be hard for th...

Updated ROE section with some additional information.

SITUATION While our earliest strikes in this campaign targeted and destroyed the vast majority of Russia’s Early Warning Radar in the southern Caucasus region and Crimea, they still have shorter detection range localized systems on Russian soil and have been operating their A-50 Mainstay AWACS airc...

SITUATION Our strikes in previous weeks helped the Georgians to halt the secondary advance of the Russian forces on the coastal city of Poti and effectively shut down Russian fixed wing close air support operating out of Gudauta. Now any Russian fixed wing aviation must come from much farther away,...

The S-3 actually made it back to mother. It was the supporting EA-6B that was shot down before the CAP could engage the bandits.