I was flying in Open Falcon this morning and was getting non-stop SU-30s and MIG-29S's rolling down the Korean peninsula toward the aircraft carrier. It was so bad that they were basically vulching A-10s coming off the base - even the AI knows no decency. Figured there was probabally an A-50 AWACS hanging around north of our lines and funnelling all that crap down south. So looking around at what bases I had, a couple F111s - no good, F-5s naa, F-4s nope, F-16C30 nope...Ahh an aircraft carrier.
F-14B, and I got a lot of them. So I loaded up with 6 AIM-54Cs and 2 9M's - put some drop tanks on and blasted out towards the coast. I zoomed up to 45000 feet in full burner going from 17000 lbs of fuel to lighten up and speed up - the idea being to get some E up high. Was hard to bust faster then Mach 1.2 with all the stores hanging off. On the RWR, I saw the <S> flash up in front - figured that was their AWACS. I ranged out the radar in RWS mode to around 110 NM and singled out the A-50 when our AWACS got a good ID on it. I killed my radar, infact I stopped radiating everything all together - selected zone-5 and started a 4 minute timer, with the end of 4 minutes to reacquire everything in the box, launch my birds and get the diddly away fast.
The timer clicked down, the RWR showed a couple of M29s showing, but nothing in the priority threat circle. Fuel was zooming down, and I was up to Mach 1.3 Still nothing on the RWR saying they were aware of what was about to happen to them. 2 minutes, 13000 lbs of gas now - I call the AWACS to vector a few friendlies north with the idea a toejamstorm would follow if I managed to splash their AWACS. 30 seconds - radar goes live - nose down and aim for 35000 feet. Pick up the A-50 doing race track patterns and the SU-30s hunkered down below 10k - nothing at my flight level. Launch my first bird at the A-50, and the remaining 5 at individual SU-30s at around 35NM range. Giving them a good 20 seconds to track I broke out to the east - still burning away and keeping my radar illuminated on the A50s and others as long as possible while giving a good angle off. Once the first missile went active, I killed all radiation and went dark - hauling bellybutton back south along the coast.
The A-50 got it in the nose, and 3 SU-30s. The remaining 2 were too far away when I broke off to go active and lost their tracks. Heading back towards the south - I was now lean and light. Felt a bit bold, naturally - a bad idea, so I headed inland. That was the first mistake. I still had my AIM-9s so when I got towards our FLOT I figured i'd dump my altitude and try to run down a couple of SU25s.
That was my second mistake. Others have probably counted up to a dozen by now. I found 2, damaged them both and got them to drop their ord - and my RWR lights up...they're back...
I picked up one off my right side 2 oclock, selected zone 5 and tried to put some space between me and him. Then, glints of light - 5 of them, climbing, 4 AA-12s and an AA-10C. I must've dumped everything but the bathwater with those 5 missiles in tail chase. I was outrunning them by some miracle, and it would've worked had I paid attention to the 2S6 that I was passing over top. 30mm struck me, crippled and engine and lost enough E in the process to let the AA-10C tickle my rear.
Thus, ended a reckless and effective mission.
