Back To Page 3 The Initial Aiming Problem To aim with, we need an aiming reference. We have a flight path symbol… the TVV… but it isn’t much good when we’re turning or pulling g. We know when we are at one g that the TVV is pretty much centered in the top half […]
Back To Page 2 “Final” – The Attack Leg The part of a gunnery or bombing pattern where you maneuver to the release point is called the “final”… when you call “in hot”, you are beginning the final approach to the target. In order to assure accurate positioning of the pipper, the final needs to […]
Back To Page 1 CCIP Display There are three main features of the bombing display… the flight path marker, the bomb fall line, and the bombing pipper. Total Velocity Vector (TVV) The TVV shows the point that your flight path is aimed at. This marker is also known as the flight path marker. If […]
by Andy Bush Bombing Theory None of the A-10 “bombs” are terminally guided weapons… they are all freefall “dumb” bombs, no different from weapons used since WW1. Once released, they follow a predictable trajectory until impact. The only thing that HUD designs have done over the years is to give the pilot a better idea […]
Back To Page 7 “Two, bingo.” Damn! We will have to return to Sochi, without expending the KMGU munitions Vasily carries. Our mission is only partly done. I bite my lip in frustration. For the want of two RBK cassettes! I release Vasily and head for home, gaining permission to buzz the base at Gudauta […]
Back To Page 3 “The Hornets are having a rough time of it.” “Da, Vasily. Be vigilant.” The second Canadian is in the Turkish wingman’s sights, and also has an AIM-9M fired at him, from no-escape range. The Sidewinder is possessed of nearly a magician’s cunning at this range and the heroic Canadian falls […]
Back To Page 6 “Vasily, abort! Enemy fighter close!” I pop my centerline tank loose. The F-16 is only ten kilometers away. I flip into helmet mode and using the 36-Sh electro-optical system, I fire an R-73 just as the F-16 locks me up.“One shooter! Fox three!”He immediately takes evasive action, popping flares. I […]
Back To Page 5 I punch off the ODAB-500PM bombs and firewall the throttles to escape a flood of 23mm tracers spraying past my canopy. “One, defensive, triple-A!”On target!“Where is the firing coming from, Sacha?” I force my heart down from my throat as I pull the MiG into a four-g turn back toward target. […]
Back To Page 4 Anxiously I look to the right at the intervening ridgeline, and call the Americans. The E-3’s operator tells me that the enemy fighter is inside thirty nautical miles, to my right and hot. We duck into the mountain range, seeking cover from his radar. We skim over ridges and down […]
Back To Page 2 Vasily taxies into place behind me on the runway and we report to the tower, ready to roll! At the signal, I open the throttle to military power. No showy afterburner takeoff here, the runway is long enough to accommodate your B-52 bomber. We cannot afford the fuel waste. I easily […]
Back To Page 1 After dinner we studied the mission plan. The 433 Squadron of the Canadians is now here, based south of us at Gudauta with their Hornet fighters, CF-18s with Sparrows and Sidewinders. Tomorrow, they will provide a Combat Air Patrol over the coastal area. The American E-3, Overlord, and its F-15 […]
A Lock On: Modern Air Combat Mission Report by Cat So, my friends, it is another day and again you find us here at Sochi after another sortie, for Muqtadeh is still out there and his plans for the freedom-loving Georgian people are nefarious. Things go badly for Muqtadeh, and we are pleased to be […]
