09 July 2023 - Operation Enduring Resolve Week 4

Lion · Post by **Lion** » Sun Jul 09, 2023 11:18 pm

3x flights of F/A-18C departed CVN-73 for another routine combat air patrol over Syria at dawn. Shortly after feet dry for all aircraft, AWACS called for a retasking to intercept an airliner that was NORDO over Beirut. Dealer 3 was closest and managed to form on with the airliner until it was reported that the pilots reestablished contact with ATC and that they performed an emergency landing in Cyprus. Dealer 3 RTB'd back to mother after they confirmed it was on final approach.

Dealer 1 received a tasking to crash an insurgent on insurgent firefight party. Guided by airborne JTAC lasers, all dropped bombs hit targets but the groups were still somewhat intact. A nearby industrial complex received collateral damage due to terrorists using it as a shield.

Dealer 2 was the only one able to respond to an urgent distress call from Coalition forces at the H3 airbase in Iraq, near the Syrian border, as they were under artillery shelling by ISIL forces. They proceeded to the target area at buster and destroyed the insurgent group there, before reforming to RTB. Unfortunately two aircraft were lost due to network failures.

All surviving flights performed excellent CASE 1 recoveries and trapped safely.

Dealer 1
Lion - gnd targets, trapped.
Rhino - gnd targets, trapped.

Dealer 2
Hedgehog - gnd targets, connection timeout.
Maniac - gnd targets, connection timeout.
Chaos - gnd targets, trapped.

Dealer 3
MrBean - sleeping airliner safely intercepted and escorted to a landing, trapped.
Crash - sleeping airliner safely intercepted and escorted to a landing, trapped.