06 July 2025 - Kola Week 7 - In HARMs Way

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SITUATION
Prior to conducting operations in the interior of the Kola Peninsula, we must substantially degrade the Red Russian integrated air defense system. Your strike will coincide with other strikes against early warning radars and SAM sites.

MISSION OBJECTIVE
The Red Russians have a large, modern, and well integrated air defense system on the Kola Peninsula. Our first wave of interior strikes is designed to overwhelm and shut this system down. In addition to strikes against fixed-field sites with ship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles, EA-6B and F/A-18 teams will HARM air defense sites throughout the northern half of the Kola Peninsula.
Fly the waypoints and engage any detected SAM systems with HARMs.
(AI*) F-14Bs will fly top-cover.
With so many aircraft in the air at once, pay special attention to your IFF and NCTR readings to avoid friendly fire.
A Prowler aircraft will be airborne and jamming SAM systems, however this jamming power falls off for anything south of Murmansk (bullseye) so keep situational awareness.

THREATS
SA-3
SA-9
SA-10
SA-11
SA-13
SA-15
SA-19
23mm AAA
23mm Radar-guided AAA
57mm AAA
100mm Flak
100mm Radar-directed Flak

Mi-24P Hind helicopter
MiG-29S Fulcrum
MiG-31 Foxhound
Su-27 Flanker
Su-30 Flanker

DATE: 06 July 2025

TIME: 1530L

WX: 360@31 kts / OVC-Rain / Single layer 900 ft to 7500 ft / 44.6 F / Q29.47 / Significant turbulence

EXPECTED FLIGHT DURATION: ~260 nm


Package Elements:
4xF/A-18C (Dealer 1) 315.0
4xF/A-18C (Dealer 2) 316.0
4xF/A-18C (Dealer 3) 317.0
4xF-14B Tomcat 315.0

Supporting Flights:
1xE-2C [AWACS] (Focus 41) 266.0
2x F-14B [Escort]
1xEA-6B Prowler [Standoff Jamming] (Trash 2) 266.50
4x F-14B [Escort]
4x F-14B [CAP]

ROE:
Weapons free

DIVERT:
Kirkenes, VOR 112.00, ATC 250.250
Banak, TACAN 47X, ATC 250.550

Bullseye:
Murmansk

[Crash]

Mission Commander: Maniac
Backup:Rhino

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map and MDC attached

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Rerun of Msn 7 with fix's
Misssion Commander: Hedgehog
Back Up: Mr. Bean

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post updated with new map / MDC

if pilots feel they cant make it back to the carrier in the wx or if theres a fuel/sim/network problem, an expedited route has been created from waypoint 3, where continuing on toward 4,5,6,7 and 8 will land you at BANAK, 100 nm west of the mission area
waypoint 8 is set right on the numbers at Banak runway 34 at surface elevation to act as a pseudo-ILS/guideline
otherwise proceeding north from waypoint 3 toward 9 / TCN will return you back to the carrier