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Following the Belkan War, the OADF saw a critical need for a dedicated security force for the Eaglin Strait, a vital waterway leading to the heart of Osea. With the massive purchase of aircraft from Yuktobania in 1997, the North Gate Air National Guard established the 89th Tactical Fighter Squadron with the Su-27 ‘Flankers’ as their primary air defense for the area.

Notable for being a front-line non-aggressor unit, the Red Dragons Aircraft were one of the first units to engage Yuktobanian incursion in 2010 while defending the Osean 3rd Fleet transiting the strait, ironically surviving the burst-missile attack due to the same fuel shortcomings that hindered their later deployments.

Today the 89th still act as watchful guardians to the entrance of the strait, along with the other state guard units assigned to the Strait’s security.

With the large purchase of aircraft in 1997, the OADF had little need for the Su-24 ‘Fencer’ due to the F-111 ‘Aardvark’ already filling the super-sonic tactical bomber role, This opened multiple states to adopt the fighter instead into their reserve components, one of which being North Gate with the 260th Tactical Fighter Squadron ‘Pale Horse’.

Accepting the aircraft in 1998 to replace older F-4D Phantoms in the inventory, the Pale Horses would operate around the Eaglin Strait, while not directly assigned to the waterway’s security mission. During the Continental War that broke out in 2003, the 260th was one of many units deployed to Usea to ensure security of Osean interests in the region, and notably would first face combat on the Su-24’s homeland of Yuktobania in 2010 during the Circum-Pacific War. Alongside F-111’s of Oseas Air Combat Command, Su-24’s from Pale Horse would drop laser-guided ordinance on Yuktobanian targets in Jilachi and on the outskirts of Cinigrad before the

The 210th Airlift Squadron ‘Rhinos’ is a unique unit within the Air Defense Force. While the concept of a Total Force Unit isn't unheard of, or particularly rare within the Air Force Reserve, the 210th has a unique status of one of the few AFRC/ANG Joint Squadrons. While the aircraft, IL-76MDs, are owned by the host-state of North Gate, the Airmen who work and fly the jets are both in the Guard or Reservist components, with a small handful of active-duty personnel.

The other interesting aspect to the ‘Rhinos’ is their choice of airframe. With the end of combat in 1996, Osea moved to better relations with their longtime economic foe Yuktobania. In the largest purchase of foreign built aircraft for the OADF saw many Reservist and State Guard units with a sudden influx of new aircraft to replace their timed out airframes. Replacing their C-141s, the Squadron found the aircraft useful shortly after completing the transition with the planetfall of the Ulysses Asteroid.

The long-term defenders of the Eaglin Strait, the 88th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the Eaglin Air National Guard have protected Osea’s primary waterway from airborne threats since the war in the 1940s.

The Squadron came to some prominence during the 2010 Circum Pacific War, when they were nearly entirely wiped out during Operation Whalebird, the disastrous rendezvous of the Osean carriers Kestrel, Vulture, and Buzzard. F-15’s from the 88th TFS Assisted the Carrier Air Wings of the fleet against a Yuktobanian surprise attack, until the unit’s aircraft and pilots were all caught in the Ballistic missile attack that followed, taking the lives of dozens of Osean pilots.

Following the war, the squadron would receive a mixture of new F-15C’s, as well as aircraft from disestablished aggressor squadrons, to continue their mission of vigilant overwatch of the main artery to the Inland Sea.