5 kills for no loss.
We are more than willing to discuss the engagement for a debriefing/learning
session, but until someone wants to learn, understand and improve there’s not
much point, maybe the JaVa guys would like a debrief discussion?
Witch
On 26 Apr 2021, at 8:01 pm, Bart (Redacted sender "bart_56" for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Blaggards took off in K4’s from Kerch to patrol the northern sea lanes after
flying north and then eastwards we sighted a formation of 5 aircraft.
With instructions of get in and out, no mixing it, I was preparing to take
the rear left(most southern) of the formation. When Witch declared that he
had another aircraft away slightly north and rear of the formation, I dipped
my wing to look and saw another aircraft underneath me to the rear centre of
the formation. So targets were changed and these were the first two.
Witch attacked his target(Biggles) a P51 caused enough damage to knock him
out of any fight, I hit my target(Ice) with cannon and he went into an
unrecoverable spin, two down.
We saw the main formation turn to the south as we recovered from our attack.
With the most southerly pair of Tempests(Phoenix/Pod) with a P51(Jumper)
turning south more or less the same time it left the northern pair of
Tempests(Roke/Stickz) lagging behind and a gap started to open even more.
So now the chase is on we dived down towards the rear pair, noticing the
front three were some way in front, we would have three vs two. I was lining
up on the rear right Tempest(Stickz), they must of seen us as Stickz turned
left followed by Roke. Not being able to follow the turn, I did a classic
climb extend out, roll out then match the flat turn for line up. The fight
was on:).
Now unbeknown by us there was a fourth P51(Roode Duivel) who was way to the
rear(east) of everyone else at the beginning, who had now caught up and
joined the fight, but some of the long long range shooting;).
Now we have a 3 vs 3, I managed to get one Tempest(Roke), we then had a conga
line, P51(Roode Duivel) chasing our Red Devil, with Moose, chasing him and
Tempest(Stickz) chasing Moose.
Now I reckon if only Stickz had got rid of all his bombs(the right wing bomb
was still attached), he would have had a better chance of hitting Moose,
especially with those Tempest guns;). As it turned out Moose got the Roode
Duivel which just left Stickz, who was shot down by Witch.
A few things we noticed the 51’s, were at around 18000ft, we were at 23000ft,
and they were well spread out. So maybe they might want to go a bit higher
than they were and operate in closer pairs if possible?
The Tempest were in good finger four formation.
Did you get warned that two 51’s were down ?
When the formation turned south maybe get the northern pair go first, as they
had the furthest to go and could close the gap that way. The gap just got
bigger, and there was no way they were going to catch up, the front group.
Once we saw that the front group were not coming back it helped us dictate
the fight with a 3 vs 2 situation. The fourth 51 almost threw a spanner in
the works as we were then 3 vs 3. If the front group had dropped bombs and
come back to help the rear group at the very least it would have caused us to
disengage. As then it would have been 6 vs 3, and they would have had more
energy as the 51 had, agree or disagree?
https://56punjabvirtualsquad.boards.net/post/459/thread ;
<https://56punjabvirtualsquad.boards.net/post/459/thread>
Any thoughts, how did you see the skirmish go?
Good fight <S>
Bart
