ID: VM - 226 - Bottle It

Location: Persian Gulf, Onboard Enterprise

Time: 0550 hrs

Conditions: Haze

Destination: Air defenses at Waypoints 1, 2 & 3

Primary Objective: SEAD

Secondary Objective: Kill Migs

Waypoint 0: Enterprise Final Approach

Waypoint 1: AAA site (69.0 nm)

Waypoint 2: AAA site (74.4 nm)

Waypoint 3: AAA site (68.9 nm)

Waypoint 4: Start location Enterprise

Recover at: Enterprise

Hornet Two Loadout: 3 x Fuel, 2 x AGM65, 2 x AIM-9, 2 x AMRAAM

Hornet Three Loadout: Fuel, 8 x MK83LD, 2 x AIM-9, 2 x AMRAAM

Hornet Four Loadout: Fuel, 8 x MK83LD, 2 x AIM-9, 2 x AMRAAM

 

The Az Zubayr Oil field contains the enemy's primary POL storage area. Hornet Three and Four are ordered to bomb the POL tanks with MK83LD bombs.

Your primary mission is SEAD, target any SAM or AAA sites that threaten the flight. You must hit the AAA sites at each of the three main storage areas... as well as any SAM sites which may illuminate the flight.

Hornet Two will target the AAA sites with you using Mavericks. Follow him at 10,000 feet ASL and 400KIAS to the border of enemy airspace. Then drop to 1,000 feet AGL and 420KIAS with him on the run in to the first AAA site. Beware of enemy armour, Hinds, and ZSU-23 vehicles moving around the storage areas

 

 

Three USAAF F-16s will also attack the storage areas with you so EID any contacts around your Waypoints. We do not expect much IQAAF resistance.... this should be a "milk run".

Recover on the Enterprise