All,
So it's 1800 on 3 Feb 1990, and the Cuban Liberation Air Force (CLAF) has an entire flight inbound, looking to clash with a flight of Castro-regime MiGs intent on intercepting inbound CLAF ground attack aircraft. Boxer 01, 02, 03, and 04 are ready for a fight; Boxer flight had suffered the heaviest so far in the campaign, and so now they were down to two Regular pilots and two Rookie pilots, men that flew F-4 Phantoms in the close air support/interdiction squadrons, now pressed into duty as fighter plots. They will treated as Rookies only for their first fight, after that they will considered Regulars (they're not actually Rookie pilots, they're just not used to being used for air superiority missions).
The first two fights on Day 3 of the War of Liberation have been unqualified successes, with one F-4 lost and one damaged, to five MiGs lost and one damaged, with one pilot in the Bruiser flight becoming the CLAF's first Ace, and a pilot in the Blackjack flight getting his fourth kill. Boxcar flight has but a single pilot with a kill, Boxcar 01, and it is but a single kill.
Apparently the Communists were pissed! MiG-21s slash hither and thither, damaging Boxcar 02 and launching a missile at Boxcar 01. To see how the forces of liberation performed, please check the blog at:
linkThree more dogfights over Havana to come, then some different stuff, on the way!
V/R,
Jack
bases up the rifle teams.
