This is a short air-to-ground mission where you'll fly the F-16C along with your wingman to provide air support to your ground troops over the Caucasus. Enemy forces aren't heavily armored so you'll be able to destroy many, with smaller munitions. You will receive information about the enemy from Loader 1, an allied group on the ground that will speak to you regularly. You will also have information from your AWACS, Magic 1. More information below.
(Warning: This mission is not being actively supported by me. The triggers or other things may break due to game updates. Please let me know in the comments if you find a bug.)
Due to the type of vehicles you'll find during the mission, you've been given x4 GBU-12s to destroy more dangerous and armored targets you'll want to stay away from, and x2 HEAT rocket pods to kill light and medium armor targets. You also carry SAPHEI gun rounds for light-medium armor and infantry. The aircraft is loaded with 60 chaff and 60 flares. You can change your loadout from the Mission Editor if you wish. In order to fully complete the mission, you must destroy all vehicles in the area. Once you do, you'll get a success message. If you haven't received anything, there are still hostiles to destroy (you can check the F10 map). There are few air defense assets and fighters in the area of operation, but they're dangerous. You should be able to destroy them just with your starting loadout. Your wingman AI will be important. It can help you take down important targets, so remember to tell him to drop bombs and engage all hostiles. However, have in mind he can spot all air defenses immediately because the AI cheats, so if you want to find and destroy air defenses by yourself you may want to make your wingman wait. If you spot enemy aircraft, your wingman will also be a very important weapon you should use. Additionally, he has been given the highest amount of fuel possible to reduce the odds of him running out of fuel, because despite cheating, the AI isn't especially smart. You can refuel and rearm if necessary at your starting base, Lochini (WP1), however, this mission can be completed without rearming if you do a good job.
You can open the mission in Mission Editor if you want to change your skin or loadout, or even change the aircraft in case you want to face this mission with a different airframe.
I hope you enjoy this mission, and don't hesitate to comment if there's any issue, question or suggestion you'd like me to know.
Changelog:
v.1.1: Updated dialogues
v.1.2: Updated loadout. Given the player and wingman x2 more AMRAAMs each, SAPHEI gun rounds and 30 more chaff. Changed the time to 12:10. Disabled dust/smoke
