Falcon 4 v. 107 Update by Leonard "Viking1" Hjalmarson
	My radar showed at least five hostiles at varying altitudes within thirty degrees of my nose. I then locked up another target and ordered my wingman to engage it. He acknowledged but did not fire. I then changed my angle of approach and dropped to fifteen thousand feet. I locked up another target, this time at 16,000 feet, called for confirmation and then fired. My first two missiles hit home and my third was on its way. I was puzzling about my wingman's status when I locked up a fourth target and let fly. At this point I called AWACS for a "near threat" vector and found a bandit almost directly below me at four thousand feet. I closed on his tail, locked him up in boresight mode, and then ordered my wingman to engage. He acknowledged but as I kept the bandit in my sites, my wingman never showed, nor did he fire. Finally I closed up and took out the MiG 21 with cannon. While doing this my wingman called a SAM launch with perfect accuracy. I dumped chaff and it missed me. No longer confident in my team mate's fighting abilities I decided not to look for any ground targets and instead head for home. I called my wingie to close up and headed for fifteen thousand feet. Shortly after we reached cruise altitude I was getting spiked from my five o'clock position. I ordered my wingman to clear my six and he acknowledged and broke formation. A moment later he called all clear, but again had not fired any missiles. ATC was perfect, much better than in the past. However, this was my first landing in at least six weeks, and I cracked up badly.. sniff! Click to continue		The surprise came when the COURT MARTIAL image appeared and I was told there was insufficient evidence to convict me, but a note would be made in my record! I was quite sure I had not fired on any friendly targets, although I was tempted to take a shot at my wingman. Confused, I took a closer look at the breakdown of my shots and hits. I found an IL 28 and three MiG kills, and no shots on friendly targets. Yet I had FIVE kills noted in the total, and it seems that I myself was the friendly fire incident! I could be wrong, however, because my wingman was also listed as KIA in spite of my hearing him being given clearance to land. He may have followed me too closely or he may not have aborted landing when I fouled the runway. I have no way of knowing what happened after I exited the campaign. It's possible that I was being accused of killing my wingman, which I certainly considered after his weak performance! Here are the results of my third mission: As you can see, a lot of missiles were fired. However, I didn't actually see any launches and none of the launches were called (ie. "Fox1," or "Fox2.") Hopefully this will be remedied by the time the patch is released since I was quite in the dark as to my wingmen's performance during the mission. Go to Page Three
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