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Pilot info: Margaux "Double X" Ickx Margaux comes from a military family and signed up for the Belgian Navy straight out of school, ending up in the Air Component. She was the last person in Belgium to be trained on the Alouette III and spent two happy months flying them, along with four miserable years waiting for them to be repaired, before their replacement with the NH90. Shortly after she completed conversion training her brother Antoine was killed in a training accident while seconded from the Paracommandos to a NATO-run intelligence group and she grew increasingly dissatisfied with the service, eventually leaving to fly NH90s with the Watergeuzen. She also got significant fast jet experience during a spell with the new Angolan Air Force and is joining Hayard Gunnes with the hopes of getting back to the rotary-winged aircraft she loves. FrangibleCover fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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Sep 26, 2019 14:34
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I'd like to get in a plane please
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Sep 26, 2019 17:43
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One more vote for Hornet Homeboy.
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Sep 26, 2019 18:50
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Hornet Homeboy
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Sep 26, 2019 21:12
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Hornet Homeboy. They all sound fun and intriguing though.
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Sep 26, 2019 21:29
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 Hornet Homeboy is a go. F/A-18+ callsign "Walleye" was escorting a C-2 Greyhound to Kandahar when it suffered a critical engine failure. Unfortunately the carrier group had to carry on to Japan. Now it's fixed, ready to go, and in need of our escort. Task 1 - Meet "Walleye" at the Afghan border. Task 2 - Eliminate any aircraft that show hostile intent. Task 3 - Escort to CVN-71 patrol area (roughly the Pakistani M-8 Highway). Ops has selected Nokundi Airport. It has been alternatively named NoAlcohol Airport.  However we may base out of Afghanistan if we s0 desire however the airstrips available in Helmand province are extremely limited.  The area highlighted in red is a hot bed of illicit 3DP bases looking to take advantage of any situation they can. Either as prestige for shooting down an F/A-18, ransoming the pilot, or just making GBS threads in the USN's breakfast. Big Question - What Recon Level Do You Want? (Link to Recon Levels here)
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Sep 26, 2019 23:31
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LEVEL ONE SURVEILLANCE Let’s not poke the nest of vipers too early.
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Illicit 3DP factories out in the boonies of Pakistan won't be cranking out S400s and F-22s. I think we could get away with Level Two Surveillance. Editing in a request to fly one of the A-4SU Super Skyhawks. Hobo on Fire fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 00:33
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Level One intelligence; we need an idea of what planes are where, but I'd rather not give up the game. Taking bets, what's it gonna be? We're up against Khyber Pass knockoff fighters, but knockoffs of what? Fishbeds? Phantoms? Starfighters? Obscure shitbuckets? Radio Free Kobold fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 01:10
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Level Two I reckon we’ll get away with it.
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Level two No reason to start being sissies right out of the gate.
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Sep 27, 2019 02:34
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Level two surveillance.
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Sep 27, 2019 02:36
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Level One It's an escort mission, why bother angering the enemy when their ground assets will probably be of minimal relevance anyway?
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level one sounds interesting
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Voting Level 1
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power crystals posted:Level One  (That's a vote for Level 1 btw)
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Sep 27, 2019 03:37
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Good thing mig-21s and Lightning F.6s are well known for their loiter times; perfect for patrolling!
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Level One Lets just take it easy for now. No need to go alertin' people that we're back.
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Grumio posted:Good thing mig-21s and Lightning F.6s are well known for their loiter times; perfect for patrolling! Level One, the more we can get past without having to throw nine Red Tops at it the better. What they're bringing doesn't really matter, we're using all of our aircraft as fighters and if that turns out not to be enough then no amount of recon ahead of time could have saved us. Yooper, I presume the Hornet isn't armed?
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Voting level one
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Level 1 We want to get in, get our asset out. Not level the place. More stuff there makes it more likely that they go on the alert. If we can fly in, only have to deal wiht what they have on CAP and Scramble, then all the better
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Level 1 On the gamey front, do think we should remove level 0 because it's a baseline Google maps option that we'll be doing anyways and we're pretty much never going to select it. At a minimum let's have someone look through some binoculars/camera and eyeball the place. Shouldn't be too much risk, it's not like they're breaking in to a facility and sabotaging things for us. Would love to see some more invasive sabotage and land based narrative options open to us as the follow up to the surveillance phase. Having some operatives trying to sabotage , drone or mortar their base and us having to cover their escape would be pretty cool! Looking forward to seeing whatever characters that are cooked up!
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Level ZERO I mean, why would we increase the odds of getting into a fight, when that's exactly what we don't want to do
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Mr Crustacean posted:On the gamey front, do think we should remove level 0 because it's a baseline Google maps option that we'll be doing anyways and we're pretty much never going to select it. Dance Officer posted:Level ZERO FrangibleCover fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Mr Crustacean posted:On the gamey front, do think we should remove level 0 because it's a baseline Google maps option that we'll be doing anyways and we're pretty much never going to select it. FrangibleCover posted:Well, I've just done that. I won't post it without Yooper's okay though. It's cool. If I leave breadcrumbs, follow them. Feel free to post too. In my eye that's part of the fun of it.
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Mr Crustacean posted:On the gamey front, do think we should remove level 0 because it's a baseline Google maps option that we'll be doing anyways and we're pretty much never going to select it. I could see a hypothetical where it's in our best interest that the attack be 100% a surprise and even the dude with a camera is too risky. It's basically voting "none" which while likely to be uncommon absolutely makes sense as an option to me. e: presumably 0 also includes us trolling PMC Twitter or whatever to see if they say anything, not literally just looking at a map, just that whatever we get from that might just be entirely wrong and we have no way to know. power crystals fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Okay, so, as Yooper said there are not a lot of airfields in this area. All of the ones in Afghanistan look pretty useless to me, too far away for our little legs. There's a nice one at Dalbandir that's almost directly under the Hornet's flight path, I'd like to investigate either operating from there or getting permission to land there in an emergency. Or just landing there in an emergency anyway and sorting it all out later. The only airfield in the red box is the one at Khuzdar so I'm fairly sure that's where most of our opposition will come from but Shamsi is juuust outside of the red box and obviously enemy operations from there would be a significant factor in our planning, so we need to conduct some sort of reconnaissance of it just to see if anyone is there. I'm not too worried about what is there or how much of it, just a yes/no, but others may disagree. There is also the possibility that these small 3DP people have put in some other airfields around the place so we can't rely on all opposition coming out of Khuzdar and Shamsi. Overall if we can base from Dalbandir then fighters there and Shack at Nokundi, otherwise everything at Nokundi. The Shack has the range to shuttle in from Kandahar or something but I don't see the point.
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AHEM https://twitter.com/posteconomy/status/1177718368197066752?s=21
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It was supposed to be a comedy, not a prophecy!
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Speaking of comedy not prophecy, is Dahir Insaat an actual thing in the Yooperverse? Their latest "offering" is this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q2ErBK95Tk
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RandomPauI posted:Speaking of comedy not prophecy, is Dahir Insaat an actual thing in the Yooperverse? Their latest "offering" is this. It seems so expensive that only the Amazon/Disneys of the PMC world will get to use them if at all.
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What we really need is official Dahir Insaat DLC for CMANO itself. Imagine how insanely broken it'd be. Whether that means overpowered broken or literally doesn't work broken is an exercise for the reader.
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Just imagine if they could turn "flying train" into a weapons delivery system! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H51EtHQX6SQ
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RandomPauI posted:Speaking of comedy not prophecy, is Dahir Insaat an actual thing in the Yooperverse? Their latest "offering" is this. Well, it's basically CBU-97 launched from VLS tubes. Someone at darpa will fund it.
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Radio Free Kobold posted:It was supposed to be a comedy, not a prophecy! lol at thinking there's any difference these days, just lmao
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Radio Free Kobold posted:It was supposed to be a comedy, not a prophecy! I'd like to remind you of the time we actually got SAAB to respond to one of our hypothetical questions: Roeben posted:
Reality was already out to lunch a loooonnnnggggg time ago. RandomPauI posted:Speaking of comedy not prophecy, is Dahir Insaat an actual thing in the Yooperverse? Their latest "offering" is this. Is it just me or is the animation for the new Macross series looking kinda choppy? I mean, I know they were mixing in CG with Frontier and how that rubbed some people the wrong way, but I would have expected better from Kawamori and his people... (it also makes me sad that Retusprae isn't really a thing anymore, I didn't even know Dahir Insaat was still marketing extremely goofy ideas) power crystals posted:What we really need is official Dahir Insaat DLC for CMANO itself. Imagine how insanely broken it'd be. Let's be real here, if we could get Dahir Insaat poo poo in CMANO you're basically 75-80% of the way to just having Ace Combat superweapons. Come on. Dr. Snark fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Sep 28, 2019 |
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  Harry, our camera guy with the gently caress off huge lens, has traveled to western Pakistan and done a bespoke photo tour of the area. His cover, photographing the rare "Macqueen's Bustard", has allowed him to operate closer than we expected.  But still, even with a huge gently caress off lens one can only get so close to the objective. So Harry, wishing to not get shot, operated as far away as he could.  I think this is still a decent bit of intel. Harry said that there was another airframe on the ground but due to the heat ripples he was unable to get a photo that wasn't just a smudge. Harry is currently awaiting antibiotics for a rather terrible case of dyenstery. But luckily we pay well through a website called Fiverr, so I'm sure he'll be well taken care of. Mission brief will be coming soon(ish).
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So Starfighters, Drakkens, and ???. I assume something contemporary, MiG-19s or something. At least our horrible trash will feel at home.Dr. Snark posted:Let's be real here, if we could get Dahir Insaat poo poo in CMANO you're basically 75-80% of the way to just having Ace Combat superweapons. Come on. I see zero problems with this.
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