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- Sat May 11, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: Mission Briefs
- Topic: 12 May, 2024 - Operation: Hormuz Sentinel Week 1
- Replies: 1
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12 May, 2024 - Operation: Hormuz Sentinel Week 1
MISSION OVERVIEW DATE: 14 May, 2019 TIME: 0800 local SUNRISE: 0532 local SUNSET: 1854 local MOON: N/A TASK: Local Area Familiarization + CCIP bomb practice WX: 282@04kt / Scattered 10,000 / T27 / Q29.44 FLIGHT DURATION: ~700 nm AVAILABLE SQUADRON ASSETS: Dealer 1: 4 x F/A-18c Dealer 2: 4 x F/A-18c ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: After Action Reports
- Topic: 28 April, 2024 - Nellis Training Detachment Week 13
- Replies: 1
- Views: 46
28 April, 2024 - Nellis Training Detachment Week 13
This week was the culmination of VFA-41's Nellis Training Detachment. Eight Squadron aircraft were able to sortie and participate in a joint force exercise involving a pair of F-16 Wild Weasels, an EC-130 Compass Call ELINT aircraft and some bing wing tankers in addition to our airwing E-2 AWACS and...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: After Action Reports
- Topic: 24 March, 2024 - Nellis Training Detachment, Week 9
- Replies: 1
- Views: 164
24 March, 2024 - Nellis Training Detachment, Week 9
VFA-41 Black Aces continued their Inter Deployment Training Cycle detachment at Nellis AFB, Nevada this week with an additional training flight for Within Visual Range air to air combat. Four aircraft sortied for this evolution, divided into two flights of two. All aircraft took off from Nellis via ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: After Action Reports
- Topic: 10 March, 2024 Nellis Training Detachment, Week 7
- Replies: 1
- Views: 141
10 March, 2024 Nellis Training Detachment, Week 7
This past week, pilots of VFA-41 Black Aces once again took to the skies over the Nevada Test and Training Range. This weeks sorties were to practice working with Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTAC) prepositioned on the ground. Dealer flights were divided among three different ranges, all with ...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: Mission Briefs
- Topic: 21 January, 2024 - Nellis Training Detachment, Week 2
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1777
Re: 21 January, 2024 - Nellis Training Detachment, Week 2
These are important skills, as intel suggests our next deployment may result in the need to utilize unguided rockets and gun strafing as well as CCIP bomb delivery on occasion.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: DCS World Technical
- Topic: *Civil Aircraft Mod* Updated User Files Link
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1242
*Civil Aircraft Mod* Updated User Files Link
Following link takes you to DCS User Files where you can download the current (as of January 2024) version of the Civil Aircraft Mod since the original German file host site is FUBAR.
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/ ... s/3335287/
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/ ... s/3335287/
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: After Action Reports
- Topic: 07 January 2024 - Operation Hormuz #9
- Replies: 1
- Views: 865
07 January 2024 - Operation Hormuz #9
NAVAIR forces on station in the Gulf of Oman were tasked with an on-call CAS mission over the city of Bandar Abbas. Seven Black Aces pilots launched on the mission in two flights. Once again, trouble with catapult unresponsiveness plagued the launch sequence, but eventually, all seven jets got off t...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: After Action Reports
- Topic: 19 November, 2023 - Operation Enduring Resolve Week 19
- Replies: 1
- Views: 699
19 November, 2023 - Operation Enduring Resolve Week 19
VFA-41 Black Aces launched on afternoon sorties in poor weather to tackle multiple taskings in the Syrian Area of Operations. Dealer 1 was assigned a High Value Airborne Asset (HVAA) escort mission requiring them to rendezvous with an Air Force C-32 transport aircraft off the coast of Cyprus and esc...
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 1:03 pm
- Forum: After Action Reports
- Topic: 08 October 2023 - Shinning Scythe (Sub Mission)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 785
08 October 2023 - Shinning Scythe (Sub Mission)
The Black Aces of VFA-41 found themselves temporarily assigned aboard the USS Teddy Roosevelt (CVN-71) patrolling in the Gulf of Oman in response to continued Iranian aggression in the Strait of Hormuz. Intelligence reported elements of the Iranian Navy and IRGC had intercepted a Japanese flagged ta...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:53 pm
- Forum: Mission Briefs
- Topic: 08 October 2023 - Shining Scythe (campaign sub mission)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 869
Re: 08 October 2023 - Shining Scythe (campaign sub mission)
So the primary effort is the Colt flight? and everyone else is SEAD/BARCAP?