Using up all my Falcon luck in one mission
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A strength of the Falcon campaign for me is that moment when you are so self assured in your superiority you get punished in all manner of embarrassing ways….even though you kinda know it’s coming!!
2 x MiG-23MLs somehow got past my fortress of many escorts and proceeded to have the audacity to fire on me…unfortunately I cannot remember the last time I did any A-A training so being a bit rusty I reverted back to my <cough>training and took standard evasion techniques.
This led me to be sitting on the deck very close to the column of armour I was just bombing…so now hiding behind a hill hoping the MANPAD guy is asleep!
I also seem to be banking or listing to one side for some reason and in CAT 3 but I can’t really look for switches when there is probably a MiG somewhere out there.
And there at 8 oclock is the MiG which I turn into, is that a flare or a missile? ok I will assume the latter but for some stupid reason don’t hit the panic button but continue to single flare!!..the missile flies under me due to nothing but luck!
Despite the jettison button I am still lugging 3 pods and 4 AMRAAMs but manage to turn the tables on the MiG while still trying to hide from the ground troop and manage to gun him.
Then the final screw up my wingy shouts he is defensive, so decide to try and get his position via radio instead of just looking at the HSD (sigh)…I somehow find him flying level with a MiG-23 on his tail and lock up the MiG in the HMS just as it fires a missile (seconds count)…the MiG is splashed but my wingy is trailing black smoke…doh…but we made it back at least.</cough>
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Sometimes, it’s the missions you don’t complete successfully that make the best stories. It’s not all about successful missions and 100% kill rate
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I love reading mission reports, thanks for sharing Migbuster. Sounds like a rough day!
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Ditto always fun to read
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Ditto always fun to read
That’s an incredibly shameless plug since I often fly with him, but Unleashed Code tells captivating stories through every video report he edits - with nice musical choices!
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That’s an incredibly shameless plug since I often fly with him, but Unleashed Code tells captivating stories through every video report he edits - with nice musical choices!
Indeed, I have been following code on YT for a while, he’s posted some cracking missions recently