22 JUN 2020 Ardakan Yellowcake Plant SEAD
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 10:42 pm
Flight tasked to perform search and SEAD of a reported SA-2 site up nearby one of Iran's rumored uranium ore purification facility.
4x F/A-18s formed up and ingressed at angels 36 to a waypoint near Shiraz city, detected SA-2 emissions and fired on them with anti-radiation missiles, scoring kills on at least 3 radars. Unfortunately, one F/A-18 was lost due to collision with a friendly HARM at launch . Remaining airframes egressed from hostile Iran, downing a cargo plane on the way out, and safely recovered aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt in the early dawn hours.
1. Lion: pri tgts, destroyed by AGM-88
2. Raid: pri tgts, 1x IL-76, trapped.
3. Trim: pri tgts, trapped.
4. Hedgehog, pri tgts, trapped.
Mission successful.
4x F/A-18s formed up and ingressed at angels 36 to a waypoint near Shiraz city, detected SA-2 emissions and fired on them with anti-radiation missiles, scoring kills on at least 3 radars. Unfortunately, one F/A-18 was lost due to collision with a friendly HARM at launch . Remaining airframes egressed from hostile Iran, downing a cargo plane on the way out, and safely recovered aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt in the early dawn hours.
1. Lion: pri tgts, destroyed by AGM-88
2. Raid: pri tgts, 1x IL-76, trapped.
3. Trim: pri tgts, trapped.
4. Hedgehog, pri tgts, trapped.
Mission successful.