Awesome! And how is this on page 2 with no comments?

Our squadron was in charge of the operation, with three other squadrons working with us. Jaeger flight were Air Superiority specialists, with two F-15s and F-14s. Demon flight was a SEAD/ECM flight operating two SU-24s and two Tornadoes, with an additional four QF-4s. We were told they were about the same skill level as our flight. The final flight was Badger, composed of two Falcons a Fitter and a Warthog. They were a relatively inexperienced squadron compared to the rest of us. Our squadron was flying a variety of aircraft. Hugs was back in his Flanker, loaded down with some a/g but mostly air to air. Scotch was flying the F-16 that Hugs had given him, and was set for an a/g mission. I was finally in my F-15 Strike Eagle, and Judge had also upgraded, selling all his other airframes to get a MiG-35, which he loaded to fly wing with Hugs. We sat down at Steve's to do some initial planning, and figured the chief worry would be air defense on the transport planes, so we had to come in and sanitize the airspace over the airfield as fast as possible. We threw around some ideas, until we had a general assault plan ready to go. Then we kicked the tires and lit the fires (sorry, Goose said it about eight minutes ago)

Current Mission:
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Give em Hell op!

>>11912782

As awesome as a Falcon is, I think this is the greatest plane Scotch has ever flown.

Yay! Planesandmercs.

>>11912953
WARCRIMES FOR EVERYONE!

awesome thing about the falcon (eagle, too i suppose)? made in the fucking 70s yet has a TTW > 1.

F5 like the fist of an angry god

I'm wondering where Demon got the A-10.

>>11913006
as in a tiger?

>>11913046
That, and I'm hitting the button like Micheal J Fox having an epileptic fit while cranked on sugar.

repost of the briefing would be nice

>This thread

Keyhole view on Baron.
Live feed.

>>11913077
Here.
>>11912918

>f-15 strike eagle, mig-35

when did this happen?

>>11913107
The possibilities are endless.

We took off and began circling the airfield, forming up into our strike group. Badger had been tasked to depart earlier than us, heading in at low altitude as part three of our strike plan. Jaeger and Demon were flying in before us, since we planned to do mop up, helping where needed. The Transports rumbled into the air ahead of us, but after everyone else, we'd be doing convoy protection as they headed towards the airfield. The airdrop would be done from two AN-12s, one C-130 and two C-160s, which were basically sitting ducks. We were told that it would be ideal to leave the runway intact, for extraction, but not necessary should operational circumstances dictate. We were planning to not damage the runway in the assault, but to render it unusable for some time. We had opted to take the tanker support, but had it in reserve, essentially on standby, the distance to target being so close we figured we could risk a lot of fuel and still get the big MRTT into the air to help us if we started to run a bit dry. The air was full of EW, and the French Hawkeye was telling us they were detecting a lot of activity through the clutter, including active air defense radars, some of which were definitely the Chinese S-300 system. They were keeping their distance until we had eliminated those, since they knew what had happened to our own AWAACS flight on our last mission. But we had planned for that, so before Badger got too close, our welcome package popped over the horizon.

Sorry this is so slow, there's a lot of stuff to go over and I'm trying to condense some of it, while still giving you an idea of what happened.

Here's a photo to keep you occupied between posts.

>>11913282
Where are her wings?
I am unfamiliar with this type.

>>11913282
...I'll be in my bunk.

>>11913295
My thoughts exactly...

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/11505225/

>>11913282
I am disappointed that she was wearing clothing.

The S-300s lit off, or what we thought were S-300s did, pushing missiles into the air as our surprise came in. We had discussed before hand, that this was an assault, and we might have some element of surprise on our side, but it wouldn't last very long, and priority number one had to be finding and taking out the S-300 systems, they were just too much of a threat to worry about at close range (close being where they could hit us, which is actually pretty far away). Essentially, the plan was to “Go Big or Go Home” so we pulled in a lot of favours to get two RK-55 systems delivered to us through our contacts inside the Russian arms industry and the arms smuggler we had helped in a prior mission. Using this, we sent a barrage of eight heavy cruise missiles at the airfield and island camp, with a primary purpose of forcing BARS to react, reveal and expend their most effective ground to air at an early point in the battle. The secondary purpose would of course be if one of the GLCMs got through and blew a chunk out of their base of operations. As the systems were working hard, Demon made their move, punching their burners and turning in towards the engagement area. A minute later, Jaeger also rolled in, although staying subsonic and noses cold. The QF-4 flight was spread out over a wide area, broadcasting heavy jamming from ECM pods strapped onto them, and linking back to Demon what their radars were seeing. As the S-300s began opening up, Demon called off and marked down their positions, before the SU-24s began delivering their payload. A flurry of SS-N-35s configured in the aecm mode with INS secondary dropped down, roaring off towards the S-300 positions.

OP! You're back! THANK GOD!

I was starting to go into P&M withdrawal!

C-130s and C-160s? Hmm, sitting ducks...

>>11913549

>>11913549
>the plan was to “Go Big or Go Home"

Christ... This will end well.

>>11913630
oops, wrong picture

What is this shit? Another shitty quest? No thanks.

>>11913675
It's a session report.

>>cutfund an'
I don't think they needs their funds cut Captcha.

>>11913675
You must be new.
Go find a 40k thread.
There should be 1 or ten on page one.

>>11913675
reaction image.jpg

>and the arms smuggler we had helped in a prior mission

I'm surprised he would do that after what happened during that missions.

The E-2 began telling us that they had several distinct airborne targets now, heading towards our inbounds. Aerial classification put them as J-8s, attempting to intercept the missile storm heading towards their base of operations. Jaeger's F-14s went hot, and sent a single AIM-54 at each target as they entered range, four in total. Further ahead, our RK-55 salvo was causing havoc, the three identified S-300 launchers having fired off their full loads, taking out four of our inbound missiles. Another one dissapeared, probably due to the airborne interceptors getting a lucky shot, although they could see the F-14s now, and were turning towards them. Hugs and Judge pushed ahead, leaving me with Scotch and the transports (which for their part, were firewalling their engines.) Demon called out that they now had multiple BUK radars going active, their seemed to be a fair amount of SA-11 equivalents in the target area, but again, while not in the briefing, not unexpected either. The Tornadoes began closing with the SU-24s as they let loose their last kh-35s, two in total. The QF-4s began to reposition, closing on the engagement area. Our E-2 began to head in as well, and as each turn passed we bagn to get more information, not the least of which there were now six planes orbiting the target area, apparently forming up with planes as they rolled off the target airfield. We decided that it was time to put a stop to that, and I dropped my two MBDA Apache missiles, letting them begin their flight toward the airfield.

>>11913930
This... This right here is how you run an attack.

>>11913930
Wouldn't it have been much smarter to put something into the runway earlier?

Fuck Yes Op!

Flanker, Fulcrum Falcon and Eagle. Your flight is full of fuckwin!

>>11914015
You'd need to get it past the SAM batteries, doubt it would be possible, short of ground based sabotage.

>>11914015
Yeah, those cruise missiles they sent in first directly at the airbase? They're under attack from the S-300 and fighters in the air. The two runway denial systems Op just launched will most likely sneak in under the chaos caused by the initial swamp attack.

So far this plan seems to be pretty strong, although I'm concerned about munitions, depending on target density, op and crew might run out of ordnance.

>>11914031
Just send out one of the cruise missiles early, have it stay low and fly around. Once everything is going up at its bros it sneaks in from behind and craters the center of the runway with a supersonic target run. Doubt any AA would have a chance with the covert approach and everything they had heading the other way.

>>11914079
They need to start building in-air rearm mechanisms.

>>11914096
Cruise missiles don't really have a loiter function... And it would have to loiter at a distance equal to Baron's probable launch point, to not get picked off by that Sam defence. Sometimes kicking down the front door and unloading a shotgun is as subtle as a plan needs to be.

Do we know what the enemy is flying?

>>11914145
>Cruise missiles don't really have a loiter function.
Whatnow? I don't know what I'm talking about, but I believe neither do you.

Besides it would not need to loiter but be able to take a designated route instead of a straight line. And I really really think they do that since the 80s.

>>11914220
True enough, but it puts a bigger range on the missile, one it might not have, or puts the launching aircraft out of position relative to the rest of the group. And there is no guarantee on timings. I just can't see sneaking a missile in, without tipping them off to what was happening.

Where is sukhoi when you need her expertise?

Maybe a Flanker will summon her.

>>11914278
They were ground launched. Are you kidding about range? And the timing can be precisely planned as this is a phase of the strike before any enemy contact. The only variable is wind.

>>11914343
Some of them were ground launched, not all of them. And range is a big issue, short of ship based missiles, or subsonic TLAMs, most cruise missiles top out at 200km or so. You would need to stay undetected relative the enemy missile site, so probably 150 mile radius, and fly the circumference of that. I just can't see a multi-vector attack going well, its overly complicated, no matter how efficient it is, you are not going to knock out that runway before some planes get in the air, and you have a higher risk of failure.

Welcome to the 67th Chairborne
Excellence in service

Out of nowhere... CIVILIAN CASUALTIES!

>>11914426
Oh no you didn't.

SUDDENLY AIGAION OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE

Hugs joined with the two F-15s of Jaeger, and Judge slipped in as well. The F-14s turned back, hanging around a point, waiting for a choice target as the shorter ranged aircraft continued closing. The J-8s didn't do well, three of them fell to the AIM-54s, never having seen the missiles, the final one failed to hit. Not that it mattered, an AMRAAM from an F-15 finished it off. The large force of aircraft over the airfield turned towards us, composed of eight distinct targets. Demon turned off the attack, pulling out so that Jaeger could do their job, and Badger arrived at their staging point. There were no S-300s operational at this point, apparently having fallen victim to the hurt demon had laid on them. Scotch and I began to make checks for our run, pulling away from the Transports as the F-14s moved back towards us to continue the escort. A large airborne search radar wen active near the airfield, and was quickly identified as a chinese AN-12 Awaacs aircraft, we still didn't have idents on the aircraft heading at Jaeger Hugs and Judge, but there was definitely some ill intent there, so Hugs decided that was good enough, and punched on his radar, and Judge did the same thing. In quick succession, they launched, with Hugs firing two AA-12s at two enemy aircraft, and Judge releasing an AA-10 each at two targets. The F-15s would be in range next turn, hopefully taking care of stragglers that survived the first shot. The enemy formation for their part, broke, as they detected the active missiles heading towards them.

Scotch and I began to accelerate on our new heading, we were scheduled to do a low pass of the enemy camp. Demon flight reformed, and began making a beeline towards the airfield at high speed and low altitude, with Badger's two F-16s following. The transports were closing, only a few turns out now, but the airspace was far from sanitized, although Demon had killed off most SAMs, or at least forced them to shut down, which is almost as good. Hugs scored a kill, then a second, with Judge chalking up a third kill on his initial missile strike, his final missile veering wide. The speed contributed to the kills, since the missiles had crippled two of the enemy (the other had been wiped from existence) but the target speed had ripped them apart when becoming crippled. But with no real warning, one of Jaeger's F-15s erupted in flames and molten metal, torn to pieces by a missile strike. Both Hugs and Judge began evading, as their threat receivers began to light up as the enemy turned on their radars, and the four J-11s revealed themselves. The other F-15 gave back just as well, performing a barrel roll and firing off its AMRAAMS in a long ripple fire, sending an unknown target to hell and first crippling and then destroying a J-11. It was now three on three, both sides beginning hard manoeuvring as they closed to knife fighting range at nearly mach 4.

>>11914392
RK-55 Granat
Operational Range: 3,000 km

>>11914487
LAUNCH NIMBUS!

>>11914697
They don't want to destroy the runway, that system will. They can't use it for that purpose.

>at nearly mach 4.

Bullshit, planes don't fly that fast.

>>11914751
Uhh, you need to re-read that section dude.

>>11914715
Oh god. In real life?

Oh god.

Tornado. that is all I care about.

>>11914734
The 2 Apaches will deliver 10 warheads each and crater the runway all over. That is harder to fix than a single big crater.

But it will be out for the operation and extraction will have to use alternatives. But not to worry, the C-130 can land on dirt.

>>11914822
The Apache delivers submunitions, they don't have to be runway cratering.

Demon was now proceeding on target, as was myself and Judge, hugging the ground at high speed. My strike had apparently gotten through, since there were no aircraft coming off the airfield, either that or everything of value was already in the air. As we rushed in, Jaeger's F-14s fired off at the enemy AWAACS, which was turning to depart the area. The transports crossed over the beachhead, but were under no missile fire yet, as they approached the airfield from the south. Demon flight rushed over the airfield, telling us there was a burning transport plane on the runway, and a massive fire raging from one of the hangars on the side of the field, as well as several aircraft still on the ground. Demon roared over, dropping their final bomb load, and in such a target rich environment they didn't have difficulty scoring ground kills. But as they passed over, one of the Tornados took a missile, seriously damaging it, while one SU-24 was ripped from the sky by another. Concentrated ground fire damaged the other SU-24, and it turned outbound, heading towards the relative safety of the ocean. Still, the raid had been successful, destroying a significant amount of equipment on the ground. For our part, we pulled over the enemy camp, dropping delayed cluster munitions in a mach+ pass, heading north and out of the engagement zone. There was some limited ground fire, but nothing as serious as what had hit demon over the airfield. Meanwhile, the air battle continued to rage as both sides struggled to get a target lock on each other, turning and rolling in a vicious furball.

I'll be back in a bit, making dinner

No one is flying a Foxbat?

>>11914874
Oh holy shit I lol'd.

Dad's an air traffic controller, and told me a joke.

What's the difference between an Apache pilot and God?

God doesn't think he's an Apache pilot.

>>11914874

For I am at 80,000 feet and climbing...

By jove, I am a lucky man. My computer shorted out a few weeks ago, and I got a replacement just today. Exactly in time for the big showdown.

>>11915260
Well I have eaten.
Where's my OP again?

Hell yes, Planes and Mercs!

Judge was entering into an immelmann, and Judge pulled a break turn, bleeding speed to increase their chances of hits. Their opponents had lined up on Jaeger's remaining F-15, but Judge slipped in behind, and Hugs was angled for a crossing shot. Hugs missed with his Archer, but Judge did not, tagging one of the J-11s in the rear quarter, but the tough bird shrugged it off, suffering only superficial damage. The F-15 evaded the two missiles launched at it, performing a hard barrel roll and turn. The third J-11 had rolled, attacking Hugs, but missing on a head on shot. I was turning with Scotch, heading back towards the camp when the E-2 said they were tracking two aircraft, fast moving climbing off the airfield, and vectoring towards the outbound Demon aircraft. Jaeger's F-14s hit the enemy AWAACS, but not knocking it out. Scotch vectored off my wing, heading towards it, since the F-14s were now heading to the furball to help out the remaining F-15. I hit my afterburner, so that I would arrive over the airfield just before the transports arrived, planning on dumping all my iron in a quick run, then climbing slightly to go armour hunting. The ZSU-23 radars that popped on were not a surprise, at this point I expected them. I roared across the airfield just as Scotch lit up the enemy AWAACs with a sidewinder, causing it to fall out of the sky dragging a trail of smoke behind it.

God damnit, my F5 broke.

I crossed the airfield, releasing cluster munitions over the tarmac, as the enemy AA opened fire, just in time to reveal their positions to Badger's F-16s, who dealt with one of them quickly, blowing it to pieces with a Maverick. One of them called that an aircraft had taken off just behind me, and was climbing quickly. I wasn't too worried, since my speed meant I was outpacing a departing aircraft quickly. The F-16s turned and got a lock on the aircraft chasing Demon's survivors, but one couldn't get a lock, and the other's missile missed. Hugs was now flying at low speed in his dogfight, but he was able to bring his nose around enough to get a shot of cannon off at a passing J-11, but not enough to cripple it. Judge was out of position, dumping chaff and flares, with a J-11 on his tail, and the Jaeger F-15 was involved in a scissors fight with the final one. The hard charging F-14s roared in, dropping one of the J-11s with AIM-7s, but expending their entire ranged armament to do it. It did give Judge a respite though, and he turned to aid Hugs while Jaeger dealt with the other Chinese Flanker. Demon called out in a panic, having just lost the a Tornado to a missile strike from the pursuing aircraft. And then the aircraft on my six launched.

>>11916301
Cliffhanger of massive proportions.

Come on come on come on...

>>11916399
I know that image is old. But it was just made form Planes and Mercs.

>>11916399
This. This, so hard.

I'm actually worried over this one. It's a pretty climactic battle, afterall. Wouldn't be surprised if the whole lot got themselves blown to bits.

>>11916519
I think that was Steve's idea. End it with a bang.

I jinked, climbing into a hard roll, and one of the missiles veered wide. The other got in close enough and detonated, tearing into the airframe, and my WSO shouted that we'd just lost all external systems. Since it was a waste to haul it all around, I dumped what remained of my air to ground and rolled again, just in time to see Scotch nailing the aircraft on my tail with his last sidewinder. The aircraft began smoking, which turned dark quickly, and the ejection seat fired just as the smoke turned into a burst of flame from the failing engine. Scotch couldn't get a visual id on the aircraft, but he told me it was a delta, as I turned out to see if I could help out Demon flight. I got a tone off my radar, and sent out two AIM-120s towards them, as Badger added to the fire, and Scotch rolled back to try and get another hit on the airfield. Hugs finally scored a solid hit with an archer, and his target tore itself to pieces. Jaeger for their part, took down the enemy J-11, but were out of armaments, and turned to head back to base. The transport planes rumbled over the airfield, and Scotch nailed a ZSU that was still transmitting with another well placed maverick. The paratroopers began deploying, dropping quickly onto the now burning airfield tarmac.

The ground fight is propably horrifying. Merc outfit on merc outfit, motivated by revenge in addition to the usual greed. They're propably going to gun down everyone on the whole goddamn international airport just to make a statement and impress any future would-be competition.

... but then again, it's Africa, so even a "remember, no Russian" would go down as a yet another sad drop in a troubled ocean.

>>11916570
>The paratroopers began deploying, dropping quickly onto the now burning airfield tarmac.
Hooray!
Who's still got missiles?

My AIM-120s flew true, and knocked one of the pursuing aircraft out of the sky, the other, realizing it wouldn't have the speed to catch the fleeing aircraft, turned back towards land, and me. Another aircraft made it off the airfield, departing off a taxiway, but Hugs and Judge were already on it, blasting the transport to pieces, causing it to come crashing back down into the city where it disappeared into a fireball. Badger began their close support mission, which for the most part went well, except for the SU-17 pilot missing his target and bombing part of the city instead of hangar. I launched my final two sidewinders at the closing aircraft, and it responded with missile fire as well. It didn't turn out well for either of us. My missile hit, but didn't do much of anything, but the second certainly did, seriously crippling it and causing an engine failure. The missiles coming in towards me had an easy time, I had no ECM, chaff, flares, due to the previous hit. The very first hit destroyed my aircraft, and my brand new eagle disintegrated around me ejecting.

>>11916570
>The paratroopers began deploying, dropping quickly onto the now burning airfield tarmac.

HORRAY!

I didn't survive ejection.

>>11916893

sadfrog.jpg

>>11916827
Serves you right, taking a beautiful bomber into a knife fight.

>>11916893
OH SHIII-

>>11914426
>>11914467
Space Shuttle Door Gunner? Where did this idea come from?

>The very first hit destroyed my aircraft, and my brand new eagle disintegrated around me ejecting.
Woops. Well, get your pistol out and join the mercs on the ground.

>>11916893
FUCK.

Does that mean you have to make a new character?

>>11916922
Just the most ludicrous military occupational specialty imaginable that still sounds cool.

>>11916905
More like cryingeagle.png, mang.

But yeah, had been expecting that for ages now. Or not Baron's death in particular, but rather to see who'd go next. How much did Baron have in his pocket when he blew up? I'd propably have retired my character and rolled up a new one the very moment I'd get to, say, 10 million dollars on the plus.

>>11916893
As shitty as that is, I do like how lethal getting shot down is in this game. I think only Scotch has actually survived a shoot down.

>>11916952
Why?

>>11916893

>>11916893
D'oh!

>>11916893
;_;

All that action, the carnage, the planes blowing up, and then a brick wall of a line.

Most of the rest of the mission went as planned, Badger took a loss as the A-10 took a ridiculous amount of ground fire and was torn to pieces by two hand launched sams and an autocannon hit. The other three, Hugs, Judge and Scotch kept an eye on Badger, but out of range of ground fire, and then flew back to land safely. All in all, we destroyed a lot of equipment, and absolutely slaughtered the BARS force on the ground, but we took some hard hits as well. As to our plan for the runway, as planned, one hour after deployment, are submunitions detonated, and the runway was free for use for our recovery teams. We did not prevent the escape of some of the BARS personnel from the camp, who departed in two AN-26 aircraft, but for the most part, we fulfilled the mission objectives. As much as dying sucked, I am making a new pilot to join up although I suspect my first aircraft is going to suck compared with how good the F-18 was.

>>11916893

>>11917057
> F-18

>>11917040
Heh. That's nothing. I swear, captcha once dropped an Elder Sign on me.

That thing is conscious. Conscious, and malevolent.

Air Kills
Hugs: 2x J7, 1x J-11 Il-76
Baron: J-10
Judge: 1x J7 1x J-11
Scotch: 1 x J10, AN-12
Air Incidentals: None
Ground Kills
Hugs: None
Baron: Ground Encampment, MI-24 Hind, 4x Q-5, 1x J-10, AN-12 (Runway Denial)
Judge: None
Scotch: Ground Encampment, ZSU-23, 57mm AA
Ground Incidentals:
Hugs: None
Baron: None
Judge: None
Scotch: 6 civilians
Friendly Air Losses:
F-15
A-10
Su-24, Tornado
Damage Taken
Baron: Catastrophic, KIA

Total Enemy Kill list:
4x J-8
4x J-7
4x J-11
4x J-10
10x Q-5
1x Y-8J
3x HQ-15
7x 40mm
5x ZSU
206 Personnel.

>...which for the most part went well, except for the SU-17 pilot missing his target and bombing part of the city instead of hangar.
If this was a sitcom, this'd be the part where the laughtrack kicks in.

>I didn't survive ejection.
...and this'd be the part where "on a very special and serious episode of planes and mercs, Baron dies and we talk in soothing but serious tones to explain mortality and the capricious senselessness of death to the younger member of our viewing audience." And the who thing is probably dedicated to an old producer of ex-frequent guest star of the show who died of cancer of an overabundance of cocaine in his sinuses.

Tough break man. Tough break.

>>11917057
The worst part is that those BARS guys are probably going to come back to hunt your party down.

Right.

So which song plays at the funeral?

well, the past is the past.

what airframe are you looking at now? Gonna be hard to get anywhere close to the level of the F-15 or the 18, but there's more than a few airframes that won't leave you completely gimp.

>>11917180
Dude. Looking at the kill list, it might very well be that there is no BARS anymore, at least in operational capacity. And a few mooks with a grudge don't really intimidate a blood-drenched outfit like Black Flag.

>>11917183
Judas Priest - Hard as Iron

>>11917214
Who knows? Maybe one of them will get lucky with the MANPADS.

>>11917160
Ouch, man. Harsh. My sympathies. A bitter end for a man of skill and style.

Your pilots live faster than just about anyone, I guess, and they die young enough to match. Scotch and Hugs are still around, but how many more missions will they live through? Kind of a grim thing to think about.

>>11917160
>>11917057
>>11917233
These are me, firefox didn't remember my trip apparently

>>11917183
A drinking song, I'd wager. The closest thing to a funeral the bloody-handed bastard will ever get will be the remaining members of the squadron drinking up a storm.

One point of interest is whether you could ask Steve whether heaven and hell exist in this setting, because if they do, Baron's going to fry for the great cruise ship debacle, and the GM, acting as the closest thing to a cruel and capricious god for the characters, is in an unique position to answer.

... which makes me wonder how I'd feel if I passed away and thus found out the name of god is Steve.

>>11917190
Well if it's anything like starting a new game of Ace Combat...

There once was a gang of Pilot Aces,
Who's skills were the were the talk of many places,
Baron torpedoed a ship,
Scotch would unzip,
And Hugs could kill you from ten paces.

>>11917278
The cruise ship was an accident, not murder.

>>11917311
Even funnier is the fact that Baron started with one of them buckets.

Funeral Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CNpFt9h2Yk

Epic enough for Baron.

>>11917354
I googled manslaughter and this pic was in the top 20.

Sorry that the report is so jumbled, I was trying to make it so that it would be easy to follow, but a lot of stuff happened during the mission. I don't really think that I did the air battle justice, since it lasted several turns, and was very intense, as they tried to get locks on planes just as maneuverable, or very nearly so, as theirs, and ones flown quite competently. Our opening salvo was also glossed over, but the number of markers tossed down was pretty frightening, when we saw all those SAM sites go hot.

>>11917343
For them morals weren't a pickle
they'd bomb a poor man's bicycle
All's good fun when done for a buck
except crashing for that would suck
(chorus)
just ask Scotch
(/chorus)

>>11917417
... I just had to wiki the ship. Just in case it was a converted carrier of some sort.

Since you're going to create a new character, could you post the character creation rules (including stuff like feats and whatnot, I remember you mentioning your old character had one called Burner Bastard...)?

That way we'll be able to learn some more about this wonderful game as well as maybe assist you like way back in the first thread :)

Can we get some newsroom style writefaggotry about this?

I can't help but think something like this wouldn't go unnoticed by the rest of the world.

Who is the pilot with the waifu?

>>11917879
I think that was Scotch

>>11917787
In today's News!
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Angelina adopts an Indian baby!
Obama, is he secretly a terrorist?
Film at 11!

bamp for planefaggotry

>I didn't survive

BAARRRROOOONNNNNNN

Damn.

>Your pilots live faster than just about anyone

It's hard to think of a better way to go then in a fighter plane.

>>11916893

>>11918239
That is a fat pilot in a fat plane.

Damn, beauty bird, downed in a day.

Finally managed to catch up on all the Planes and Mercs, wow... just wow. Rest easy, Baron, at least you got to go out in a blaze of glory.

On a related note, I have you guys to thank for inspiring me to get my own Crimson Skies campaign going. We've only run one game so far, but we're slowly getting there...

>>11916893
NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo

Op, you have my regards and manly tears

Imma just going to slip a falcon here.

>>11920589
Here I mean

>>11920594
That old grandma.
Modern multiroles are considerably more maneuverable than that outdated light fighter.

>>11920608
Fuck you! She is pretty.

>>11920615
And still entirely capable, really. The F-16 isn't half as outdated as one might expect. Not with JHMCS + AIM-9X integration.

>>11920608
F-16 is the new F-5. Sexy as hell. But its air superiority seriously limited by age. Ideal for export.

>>11920626
Not yet, but within the next few decades. Most air threats in the current environment are still going to top out at 4th to 4.5 generation, which it's still able to stand up to in a dogfight. You're right about being ideal for export, though--more than 20 countries fly the things.

Makes me wish I could be a fighter pilot.

>>11920621
l2thrustvector

>>11920647
>implying thrust vectoring is anything approaching commonplace in the current battlefield environment

>>11920659
>implying "approaching commonplace in the current battlefield environment" is anything approaching relevant in the current roleplaying environment

>>11920685
I was just talking about the real world, honestly. Though I've seen the Air War C21 rules and I have to say, the F-16C Block 50/52 is pretty rock-solid in that game too.

Better buy Texstars next time.

Can these things turn on a dime?

>>11912947
I think all the other airframes are just jealous.

Skyhawk is where it's at.

>>11921605
New Zealand had these.
If New Zealand had them it means they are crap.

>>11921613

>If New Zealand had them it means they are rugged, reliable, and probably worth getting.

fixed that for you bro

>>11921632
New Zealand has good troops but shitty equipment,

>>11921642

[citation needed]

>>11921642

Ausfag here, have been on exercise with them twice and they have the same equipment as us. Try not to be full of shit next time aye?

>>11921658
Have you got APCS that don't like water when we work mainly in the Islands?

I wish New Zealand still had a combat wing

>>11921681

NZ was offered 21 SU-27's plus spares and trainers for half the price of 12 F-16's, which we didnt obviously get because the US went all DERP A HERP RATED PEE GEE THIRTEEN.

Fuck you Helen Clark for not having balls.

I just don't get how anybody besides Israel is still buying US made jets. Those things are expensive, require too much maintenance, and the export models are too limited. Not to mention they are outperformed by less specialized craft in almost every aspect.

It's almost as if procurement went by the same standards as Saturday morning cartoons.

>>11921698
Helen Clark has more balls then John key.
This could be seen as a insult to both.

I heard that deal had strings miles long

It was also 28 f-16s I thought.

>>11921771
Oh trust me, there's worse.

>>11921784
There is always worse.
Anyway if we got those jets I would have signed up for the air force 3 years ago.

>>11921796
I would totally be sporting a Typhoon right now if they took tall overweight shortsighted guys for pilots.

If you want to be a Fighter pilot I heard Aus will take you.

>>11921771

>Helen Clark has more balls then John key.This could be seen as a insult to both.

Good, they both suck. SURPRISINGLY Winston Peters is the only one speaking sense these days, gets my vote.

>Maoris-WAAAAAAHHH WE WANT THIS! AND FUCKEN THIS! AND HEAPS OF THIS! FOR FREE, AND WE WANT IT FUCKEN NOW!
>Labour - omfg you poor things here you go!
>National - omfg you poor things here you go!
>Peters - LOL WAT? Go fuck yourself.

Ma hero

What time is it down under?

>>11921859

Probably around 4am

In New Zealand it is 1.55 am and we are ahead of the Auzzies.

>>11921853
I hate politics in New Zealand.
I like Mr peters in that he is a wild card but don't support all of his ideas.
I want a sensible central party but it will never happen.
Or we can join Australia....

If you want rugged, there's only one place to look.

All I know about New Zealand I learned from these 2 New Yorkers.

Also: Sirocco the Kakapo

>>11921927
The Rhymenoceros and the HipHopopotamus?

>>11921887

>my face when my mothers partner votes for a nobody farmer because he has a policy of mandatory swanndri's for every NZ'er

>>11921927
You do know they are kiwis who live in kiwi land?

Hello folks...

>>11921944
AHHH!

You can't post stuff like that in the morning, I just got an insta-boner! How do I explain that to my wife?

FLY IN TO DA DANGER ZOANE

Reasons I love Planes and Mercs
1. Awesome Jet Fighters
2. Callsigns (Names are not important, everyone is known by their callsign)
3. Combat that is lethal. You hit, you've probably killed something.
4. Mortality, there are no second chances, you either live or die, and it is final. (So many RPGs don't do this)
5. Interesting missions. I thought an Air Combat game would be boring, but this is roughly the sixteenth outing, and I have been entertained by all of them.
6. "It's almost real" which I mean, as I look stuff up, I find that the p&m crew are flying out of real places, against real adversaries. There is make believe in it obviously, but there's hints of truth as well.
7. Scotch.

>>11921949
Say you were thinking of her.
Then make love to her wildly and passionately while thinking of Swedish planes.

Get one of these op.

Be the terror of ground troops everywhere.

Gawddamnit!

But my dirge to Baron:

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me.

You deserve it buddy!

>>11921997
How will he avoid shouting out "You cranked double delta whore!" while screwing his wife though?

>>11922000
Goosebumps.

>>11921985

Summed up by one word-

"STEEEEEEEEEEEVE!!!!!!"

>>11922011

Glad to have obliged. It was the first thing I thought of

>>11922000
Hauntingly beautiful.

My wife is a Swedish plane.

>>11922036
Lucky Bastard.

>>11922000
>>11913296

He robbed from the rich
And he gave to the poor
Stood up to the man
And gave him what for

MiG-25 'Foxbat' or, a rocket with wings.

Bumping for awesome

>Captcha: Love,whatisLove revont

>>11923296
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more!

>>11923315

Fuck yes Phoenix LRM!

>>11923315
Nice balanced load out you got there, buddy.

I would appear that I've shown up late but Op again you have my condolences

But I must ask what shall be your new starter aircraft?

When Baron went down at leas he took the other guy with him.

BARON.

Fallen in the line of duty.
Just like Von Richthofen.

>>11917787
>Can we get some newsroom style writefaggotry about this?
>Can we get some newsroom style writefaggotry about this?
>Can we get some newsroom style writefaggotry about this?

THIS! In fact, that would be rather awesome and add more atmosphere to the threads.

If these were real events, you know you'd hear about them on newscasts. Or at least some article on it.

>>11926176
Yeah, the news media doesn't care about Africa.

>>11926176
"... which has caused the immediate call for a motion of no confidence by the opposition.
Africa. French peacekeeping forces have put down an insurrection. We only mention this because the alleged involvement of private military contractors will have minor implications for the domestic news cycle next week.
And now Sally Sunshine with the forecast."

>>11926332
The bleeding heart liberal ones do.

Can I fly a MiG-21-93 'bis'?

>>11926510
hamburger rain.

Also, if the WSO survived the disintegrating Strike Eagle he should totally be your new character.

>>11929398
METAL PIPE!

>>11930347
That's not a -21...

Was there ever any movement on that WW2 Planes and Mercs?

>>11929398

cannot into airspace

>>11933802

You're quite correct. That's because it's a Sukhoi Su-17 'Fitter'. The planes are really quite dissimilar, however most people tend to mistake them simply because of the tubular shape and engine intake.

Woah that's a really nice Soviet Space Fighter.

I miss space combat flight sim games...the last really good one was probably Tachyon, then their popularity nosedived, probably cause developers just kinda gave up on them entirely.

I wonder if there are some nice space fighter miniatures out there, kinda Aeronautica Imperialis sized ones 2-3" long.

>>11928003

I like and endorse this idea.

>>11912396

This is late, but what plane is that in OP´s pic? Looks pretty badass

>>11928003
>>11936081
Should be your new WSO, anyway.

I assume Baron was flying a 2-seater this last mission.

>>11936201
SEPECAT Jaguar, a/g aircraft.

Pic is what I was doing when this thread was posted.

>>11939215

"Hey Hans, did it just get a bit drafty, or is it just me?"

>>11937397

He was, the WSO was mentioned.

>>11937397
This thread refuses to die, jesus.

Also, yeah the F-15E is a two-seater bird.

>>11939241
I couldn't stop laughing when I saw the damage replay when I reviewed the track.

>>11939259
Is that IL2?

Those germans just do not give a fuck.

>>11939259

"The wind in my face, this is what war is all about"

>>11939259

AND NOT A SINGLE FUCK WAS GIVEN THAT DAY.

>>11939267
Il2 1946, playing a game online.

>>11927990

Here I am!

Dang, almost missed a Planes & Mercs thread.

>>11939718
Not just any P&M thread.
Baron's last flight.

>>11939920
As morbid as it is at least he went out like less of a chump than anyone else that was formerly part of hell's black aces.

>>11939215
>>11939259

Hugs, you take AtA with Judge.
AtG will be Baron...
Shit.

>>11941062
Hehehe, Scotch is all alone again.

>>11941062
Fuck you, that woun't be funny....*sniff*

It lives!

>>11945171
Oh yeah!

>>11922011
That sounded like a pun...
If it was you are a terrible person, if not I am a terrible person.

>>11946275
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

>>11946294
Oh fuck turn around and fly as fast as you can!

Who thought that was a good ides for air-air?

>>11946348
And yet it's still better than putting AIM-4 Falcons on your bird.

>>11946386
Yeah, since those never hit anyway, kinda like a really crappy gun, whereas the AIR-2 would be more akin to a grenade or something, you just need to detonate it in the same general area as your target...

>>11946472
found it

>>11946294
Air2 was awesome!

I just got sent an email I think you might find fitting:

After every flight, Qantas Airlines pilots fill out a form called a gripe
sheet, which conveys to the mechanics problems encountered with the
aircraft during the flight that need repair/correction. The mechanics
read and correct the problem, and then respond in writing on the lower half of the form what actionwas taken. Never let it be said that ground crews and engineers lack a sense of humour..

(P = The problem logged by the pilot.)
(S = The solution and action taken by the engineers.)

P: Left inside main tyre almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tyre.

P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.

P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on backorder.

P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're there for.

P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.

P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.

P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.

P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

>>11947781
>Qantas Airlines
>P: Target radar hums.

Well this explains the exploding engine, but opens up a new line of WTF

>>11947820
It's a mystery.

>>11947820
I thought the Israelis were more likely to install military stuff on their airliners, what with the whole flare dispensers thing....

>>11947434
>>11947991
And the last one of those I have

>>11947858

>>11947820
Those go around in chain letters under various guises. Here are some others that are sometimes included:

Defect: The autopilot doesn't.
Action: IT DOES NOW.

Defect: Seat cushion in 13F smells rotten.
Action: Fresh seat cushion on order.

Defect: Turn & slip indicator ball stuck in center during turns.
Action: Congratulations. You just made your first coordinated turn!

Defect: Whining sound heard on engine shutdown.
Action: Pilot removed from aircraft.

Defect: Pilot's clock inoperative.
Action: Wound clock.

Defect: Autopilot tends to drop a wing when fuel imbalance reaches 500 pounds.
Action: Flight manual limits maximum fuel imbalance to 300 pounds.

Defect: #2 ADF needle runs wild.
Action: Caught and tamed #2 ADF needle.

Defect: Unfamiliar noise coming from #2 engine.
Action: Engine run for four hours. Noise now familiar.

Defect: Noise coming from #2 engine. Sounds like man with little hammer.
Action: Took little hammer away from man in #2 engine.

Defect: Whining noise coming from #2 engine compartment.
Action: Returned little hammer to man in #2 engine.

Defect: Flight attendant cold at altitude.
Action: Ground checks OK.

Defect: 3 roaches in cabin.
Action: 1 roach killed, 1 wounded, 1 got away.

Defect: Weather radar went ape!
Action: Opened radar, let out ape, cleaned up mess!

>>11948674
Fuck yeah Les Chevaliers du Ciel!

>Defect: Autopilot tends to drop a wing when fuel imbalance reaches 500 pounds.
>Action: Flight manual limits maximum fuel imbalance to 300 pounds.

Best one of the lot right there.

Holy crap. Why was I not informed something like this exists?

>>11949412
You mean you missed all 37 threads and countless discussions threads?

You poor soul...

>>11949604
I stopped going on /tg/ a while ago(4chan altogether really), and only came here on a whim
fml

>>11920647
>hurrrr durrrr they totally never tested F-16 thrust-vectored prototypes and totally couldn't put that into production in a heartbeat

Son, I am amuse by your ignorance.

>>11949915
Well, all threads are archived and we've got a forum going, so looks like you've got some reading to do :)

bump

>>11949972
http://s1.zetaboards.com/PlanesAndMercs/index/

>>11951105
Jup, that's the one

When /tg/ witnesses a great change, Planes and Mercs reveals itself, first as a new thread. As a thread it uses its replies to rain planefaggotry upon the board, and then it dies. However, after a period of slumber, Planes and Mercs returns.