Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Operation Tagar - Disaster

In the center the strike on El Tasa continues. Shararah, a flight of 4 MiG-17, drops their bomb load on the Hawk battery, but fails to hit. Of course, having a crippled and damaged plane in the flight did not help. The Su-7 that failed to hit the battery earlier where engaged by a flight of four Neshers and shot to pieces - 3 of 4 Fitters went down in flames for a damaged Nesher. With favorable morale results, the Nesher will most likely continue to press another attack on Shararah. Fortunately the remaining Fitter will be able to dash away at speed six. With the current results in aerial combat the EAF CAP flight J flies southwards to check on another strike. To compensate for the sustained losses I ready two new EAF CAP flights at Cairo West and Inshas. In the southern part the remaining EAF flight is detected, while all attempts on the IAF there went unsuccessful. The image depicts the situation at start of turn 11.
Ben Nun, which recovered from disorder in the admin phase, moved to intercept the interceptors and succeded once more. With two shots the F-4s scored two kills on the MiG-21F-13s. After three air-to-air combats in this part four MiG-21s were shot down and two more damaged for basically no Israeli losses. The last line of defense there will no be the SAM batteries around Beni Suef, as this is most likely to be the target.

The incoming strike at the coast is now engaged by SAMs. With the remaining Armed Escort and Egrof flight the score remains even. One SAM shut down it's radar after an ARM launch and no damage has been dealt out. While a number of missiles were shot at the aggressors, no hits were scored.
Meanwhile the last IAF strike is assembled and seems to be on the way to Suez. Little opposition for this strike has been scratched together. The CAP flight departing from covering El Tasa is available. For ground defense, a Fire Can was shutdown after ARM launch and needs to recover first.

Turn 13 is starting and the EAF is in a bad shape. Of the two strikes versus Israelian installations, only one was hit with a success rating of 3. The losses are already enormous:










FlightTaskAircraftKilledCrippledDamaged
el-MaltBombing22 (AAA,Hawk)--
ShararahBombing4-1 (Hawk)1 (Hawk)
HafizBombing4---
ZakiBombing13 (A2A)--
MikhailCAP4--1 (A2A)
ShuwakriCAP31 (A2A)-1 (A2A)
KamalCAP22 (A2A)--
al-HamidCAP22 (A2A)-1 (A2A)


For the IAF it looks like a great day: only two damaged planes for 10 kills and a number of aborted and disordered EAF flights. Will turn 13 bring more carnage to my EAF forces or will the IAF start to suffer likewise?

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