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North Vietnamese campaign Date : 17th June 1965 Time : 11 : 15 Player Aircraft : MiG-17 Airfield : Kien An Airbase Mission overview " On this date a USN strike group attacked targets in the Ninh Binh province. Scramble and meet the threat. " Background " 4 MiG's scramble to engage a large USN strike group ($-4's with F-4 CAP). During the dogfight 2 F-4 Phantoms were shot down and 3 MiG's/ " MiGMan - It's 163 miles to the 2st waypoint so I pressed X to warp. Yikes - after winging an F-4 I had a head on with an A-6 Intruder. On my second attempt my wingmen crashed on takeoff - I guess that happens occasionally. On the third attempt I collided with the 4th wingman on takeoff. I was probably taking too long to takeoff and being flight leader they were trying to formate on me at low altitude. Anyway, eventually it was into the fray and some graceful if unexhilarating dogfighting. I had to replay this mission several times before I survived - air to air collisions were the usual cause of my demise exacerbated I felt by a lack of response in the pitch axis from the MiG-17. Usually I would be closing too fast on a bogey and snatch the stick back desperately to avoid a collision. I would expect that I could at least enter a stall by doing this but no joy... Finally I managed to avoid collisions - by flying a lot less aggresively than I would have liked - and went to warp home. It was very frustrating at that point to get the "warp disabled" message! I set the simulation rate to 4 x and wobbled back up the coast. After a nice landing I was informed "You failed to meet the mission objectives" ... grrrrr.... but hallelujah, I was allowed to proceed to the next mission. |
These screenshots were created with a Hercules 3D Prophet III Titanium 500.
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