I attacked it last night, got engine damaged again by flak with a single
pass. Not badly, but its unusual that I get hit at all with a fast
single attack. Smaller tempest thats not suffering compression lock
might get out unscathed. And its not a good target to strafe - and it
leaves you vulnerable. Wait for dust to clear, get firing lane, all that
time gone since alerts gone off with a field 20km away. No one watching
you. To strafe you need top cover, the P38s have left as planned. Much
as I want to win a map, I'd rather we left a strafeable truck and all
got home than lose one plane and get the truck.
TTFN
Stickz
On 15/11/2019 06:09, klem56 (Redacted sender klem56 for DMARC) wrote:
It would have been nice to find something to shoot at but I'd prefer to avoid a suicidal strafing run unless it meant actually closing the target. Not much point in killing a few trucks if there is more to kill that needed another bombing run.
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On 14/11/2019 15:09, tim foster (Redacted sender silverwings.stickz for DMARC) wrote:Boots right though, the flak there is pretty hard, whilst I took a slow pass to make those screenshots and then came into attack I got hit pretty hard (course its a big plane). The strafeable targets are mainly beside the road, and you can see 3 flak covering it(at least). Once we wake it up, they would take the full ferocity in the face. With our 15sec bomb delay they gonna be coming in late to give smoke time to settle to actually see viable targets with us not pulling the flak. Means they are also way behind. From cina/klem point of view of course it might have been worth it instead of 2 hours following us around never seeing an enemy nor firing a gun.
TTFN
Stickz
On 14/11/2019 13:26, Michael Colby (Redacted sender michael.colby82 for DMARC) wrote:Nice one Stickz. Thanks!
Our two P.38 missions last night were very enjoyable :)
It was good to have the escorts, as visibility from the P.38 is not so good for searching for bandits on-route.
Looks to me like our escorts, or a portion of our escort, could be given the option of a single run cannon strafe next time we attack that target.
Thanks again Stickz.
Happy landings,
Talisman
On Thursday, 14 November 2019, 13:08:07 GMT, tim foster <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
yeah I was trying to put ackbar and the 4077th reference in but couldnt
remember his name nor the mash number at that time of the morning so it
got rather lost.
It was meant to be red H is gen ackbars 4077th hospital, then the trap
pun in the second picture line
On 14/11/2019 07:32, Lee Fisher (Redacted sender l.fisher for DMARC) wrote:
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 14 Nov 2019, at 07:18, 56RAF_phoenix <phoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:phoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> I dropped two bombs on the away-from-the-road netted targets, four on the hospital. That explains why I got only one building.
>> Good recon, Stickz.
>>
>> 56RAF_phoenix
>>
>>> On 14/11/2019 00:54, tim foster (Redacted sender silverwings.stickz for DMARC) wrote:
>>> for those of you who only attack a target once a week so probably cast the same one once a year
>>>
>>> Last nights rally point target, rally tagt shows your view more or less from the route boot brought you in. The red H is a hospital. Red squares are target areas.
>>>
>>> Rally_close shows a close up also from same route path, red areas are targets. And I would guess the 2 purple areas are also targets - although I guess the hospital maybe a trap
>>>
>>>
>>> TTFN
>>>
>>> Stickz
>>>
>>
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