I was on heading towards the southern airfield, when I was called to go to the
northern airfield instead.
On my way you guys showed up. First I didn’t believe that it was you, since it
took you 3 minutes to shot me down and I would have expected you guys to be
able to end it much quicker 😉
Best Regards
Bo
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Looking at the map we decided to protect strategic targets towards the south of
the map. It became apparent that there was not going to be any enemy close by,
so we decided to push on eastwards. Where the plan was to interrupt the flow of
the enemy aircraft forwards and back to the front lines.
This soon started to proved targets, as enemies were spotted, "Sturmoviks!"
heading eastwards to their home base. We engaged managing to shoot down two and
getting a shared on a third, that was finished off by a friendly flying an E-7.
On bugging out low and then starting to climb, we noticed 2-4 high contacts to
our north heading east, can only be more Ivans, so we decided to stay low and
extend. We were now down to around 170l of fuel, so rtb was coming in to play
as we were deep behind enemy lines. When an Ivan was spotted slightly low to
our southeast the pursuit was on, it lasted 7 minutes and around 40-45km before
the first shots were fired, the speed of the aircraft was evenly matched. The
shots made Ivan(LaGG-3) break, which we were then able to take advantage of,
and he was shot down. We now had a big problem we were down to around 120l of
fuel and a 150km flight back home, which was the shortest route and meant
flying directly over the front lines. We climbed up to 5000m and throttled back
to 2000rpm, hoping not to bump into anyone lol. We made it and landed with
around 30-40l which we were pleasantly surprised with :).
From tacview the Sturmoviks were DBS sqn, the contacts to the north were Klem
and Roke, I think there were more, but tacview did not show them. The LaGG was
Bo, don't know what you were doing so far to the south in the middle of
nowhere. It took such a long time to catch up to Bo as the aircraft were evenly
matched for speed. Witch had to fire a long-range burst to make you react, as
we did not want you to get closer to your friendly base, as well as our fuel
getting low.
An interesting night from all different aspects :).
Colin
