ID: VM - 220 - Silver Nails

Location: Persian Gulf, Onboard Enterprise

Time: 0416 hrs

Conditions: Clear

Destination: Humbert bridge at Waypoint 1

Primary Objective: SEAD

Secondary Objective: Kill Migs

Waypoint 0: Safwan Final Approach

Waypoint 1: Humbert bridge at Waypoint 1 (64.3.8 nm)

Waypoint 2: Start Location Enterprise

Waypoint 3: n/a

Recover at: Rafha

Hornet Two Loadout: Fuel,, 2 x AIM-9, 2 x AMRAAM, 1 x AGM65

Hornet Three Loadout: Fuel, 2 x AIM-9, 4 x MK84LD

Hornet Four Loadout: Fuel, 2 x AIM-9, 4 x MK84LD

 

The Allies intend to "cut off the enemy and then destroy him". In order to cut off their retreat from Kuwait we are going to knock out the bridges South of Al Basrah.

 

 

You are to launch with Hornet Two and follow him at 8,000 feet ASL and 400KIAS to the Humbert bridge at Waypoint 1. Your mission is to kill the SAM and AAA sites around the bridge. Use "Iron Hand" tactics with Hornet Two... he "draws" the SAMs to him and you accelerate at low level to shoot the SAM sites with HARMs. Hornet Two will hit the Southern AAA site at the bridge. You must hit the Northern AAA site to clear a path for Hornet Three and Four.

Hornet Three and Four will launch 5 minutes behind you. They are carrying MK84LD bombs and aim to bomb the bridge at 0430 hrs. You must protect them.

Two F-16s are on a CAP about Safwan while two more F-16s are on their way to attack the IQAAF H2 Airbase North of Quatir with CBU-59 Cluster Bombs. This is part of our continuing effort to keep the IQAAF on the ground.

Recover on the Enterprise