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The four-ship of F-15C Eagles raced across the sky at thirty thousand feet. The flight lead, call sign Death-1, focused on his radar, looking for enemy aircraft he knew were in the vicinity. He also knew those enemy aircraft were looking for him. His F-15s were spread abreast of each other in a tactical wall formation, and they swept ahead of a strike package that stretched out fifty miles behind them. Death-1 flight’s mission was to engage and destroy any aircraft and ensure that the strike package could get to its target unmolested. Each F-15 carried a standard conventional load of both AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles for beyond-visual-range targets and AIM-9 heat-seeking missiles and 940 rounds of twenty-millimeter Gatling gun ammunition.
Four “bogey” contacts popped up on the flight lead’s radar picture. These aircraft flew in a classic enemy box formation but were apparently unaware of the F-15s. Death-1 queried the nearby E-3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft orbiting nearby to see if it had detected the bogeys. AWACS confirmed the rogue contacts and began a long-range electronic identification. After AWACS confirmed the F-15s’ onboard sensors, the bogeys became bandits. Death-1 recalled the rules of engagement for today’s mission as he watched the bandits enter the no-fly zone. The bandits had just become “hostile,” and an air-to-air engagement was necessary. Death-1 directed his four-ship to commit on the enemy formation. They lit their afterburners and climbed into the contrails, accelerating well past Mach 1.0.
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