15 JAN 2023 - Operation Noble Tempest Week 13

[Lion]

Flight of 9 F/A-18Cs departed USS Truman to attack a pair of SA-10 sites. Dealer 1 was to sweep ahead and clear the airspace of any enemy fighters, Dealer 2 was to launch decoys and follow up with HARMs, and Dealer 3 was to attack the site directly. Unfortunately due to connection issues only 1 Dealer-1 aircraft was able to engage two Su-27 Flankers emerging from Guadata airbase and was shot down after splashing one Flanker. Dealer 2 turned to engage the fighters and lost two aircraft to the remaining Flanker before it was splashed. Remaining Dealer 2 aircraft released decoys before getting knocked out of the sky by an SA-10 missile.
Dealer 3 launched AGM-154A JSOWs at the site with all but three glide missiles getting intercepted, only destroying the northern Clam Shell radar in the process, before returning to mother in CASE 3 conditions.

Dealer 1 ESCORT
1) Trim - x1 Su-27 Flanker, shot down.
2) Dirty Dan - disconnected, reconnected, trapped.

Dealer 2 SEAD
1) Lion - shot down.
2) Maniac - shot down.
3) Chaos - x1 Su-27 Flanker, shot down.

Dealer 3 DEAD
1) Hedgehog - trapped.
2) Crash - trapped.
3) Rhino - x1 CLAM SHELL low altitude radar, trapped.
4) MrBean - trapped.

Mission failure.

[Hedgehog]

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[Hedgehog]

Pilot records and Greenie Board updated.