Please join us for another round of Black Sea fighting in Operation Black Gold.

@ 1900 on 4/20 (this coming wed)

Event Registration and Mission Briefing.

Tonights OP consists of 5 way points for red, and 5 for blue. Each WP has approx 15-20 hard targets. Pumping stations in particular cannot be killed with guns or CBU's. We will be flying blue tonight.

The flight times are rather long. You will need to account for ingress, loiter, egress times as well as fuel consumption.

There are NO AWAC's or Refueling.

I've modified the mission so there will be constant cap rolling into the area. Re-spawns at 1200 seconds.

As we clear each WP - ANOTHER SET OF ENEMY CAP LAUNCHES - which will also re-spawn after killing.

CAP should coordinate to provide constant CAP coverage or the CAS sorties will be at the their mercy. CAS should coordinate with CAP so they are not in the area with out a CAP presence.

CAP should also be aware of the bombers that spawn every hour and will try to bomb our starting air fields.

SAM Cover will be fairly light. Couple of SA-19's (I know I know.. you all wanted SA10's)

While we are trying to destroy their targets.. they will also try to destroy one of ours.. at some point in the mission. Keep your eyes peeled for any ground units moving towards our positions.

F10 Menu will tell which way points are active.

HELO's - Building SAMS, and moving ground assets to the enemy WP's to assist in clearing the zones.

Given the number of targets at each WP and the flight times, I don't expect us to be able to beat this mission. But if we could clear at least 2 way points, I'd call that a success.

Server will of course be public, so we could experience public players jumping into red slots, building sams, running more CAP, etc.

See you in the air gents!

Once again I thank you all for the nice showing tonight. My apologies to the CAP guys for not making that a bit more interesting. Could probably have added a few more and lowered the re-spawns.

Regarding SEAD - I thought the 19's would have been interesting. I didn't know there were issues with them. Sorry.

We got about as far as I thought we would. WP1 eliminated with a significant portion of WP2 destroyed.

Next week.. The Capture of Teberda! (think remember the Alamo - same style of mission)

Appreciate the comments, keep'em coming, I will try and make next week's map interesting to everyone.