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Due to the holiday weekend, an optional pick-up mission was offered yesterday for any Black Ace pilots who still wanted to fly. Two Black Ace jets departed Kobuleti and proceeded to conduct a low-level attack on an enemy supply depot. Ingress and egress were through a series of river valleys and the...

Two sections of VFA-41 Hornets took part in a training exercise in the Persian Gulf region on Sunday. The four jets departed Al Minhad Airbase and attacked preplanned targets near Bandaranaike Jask, Iran using AGM-154c stand-off weapons. Upon completion of the simulated attack on Iranian targets, th...

IDTC-1 Preplanned Lat/Long and Emergent MGRS targets MISSION OVERVIEW DATE: 21 May 2023 TIME: 06:00 SUNRISE: 05:20 SUNSET: 18:58 TASK: Practice delivering precision ordnance using both pre-planned and real-time entry of target coordinates. WX : 250@7kt Few 8,000 Scattered 25,000 T23 Q30.06 FLIGHT D...

Yesterday afternoon, two flights of F/A-18 Hornets from VFA-41 conducted a battlefield interdiction mission against Russian targets along the Tskhenistskali River. DEALER flights launched at 1600 and were on station by 1630 where they were put in contact with US SOF forward air controllers operating...

Yesterday morning, two flights of F/A-18 Hornets from VFA-41 took part in a coordinated SEAD/DEAD mission against 3 coastal air defense sites in Crimea and Russian-held Abkhazia. VFA-41 assets were assigned to suppress two SA-10 installations on the Crimean peninsula in preparation for a ship-launch...

VFA-41 took part in a nighttime strike against several Russian operated supply and command and control facilities in South Ossetia last night. Nine F/A-18 Hornets departed Tiblisi around 19:00 local time and proceeded towards targets in and around the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali. Primary ta...

Hey Badger, thanks for the interest. We just filled our open roster slot last week (squadron is capped at 12 pilots) , so Hedge took down the “submit application” link on the website. That being said, pilots do come and go, so keep checking back and when we have an opening again, the link will be re...

The extended forecast for Tbilisi is low clouds near the airport. Good thing we practiced instrument approaches recently :1cool: Note the included approach plate uses Vazaini's TACAN, but it's only for guidance and line up. You will fly over and past that TACAN station on your final approach. We wi...

The Black Aces completed their inter-deployment training cycle last night in preparation for their upcoming deployment to the Caucasus. Eight squadron jets took off from Andersen AFB just before dark. Low clouds, rain and fog made for an unpleasant preflight, but all jets departed to the north in tw...