Account written by... Triton

I relaxed a little and moved into a comfortable position for the long flight to the target. This part of a mission is always the most boring, flying a F-16 in loose formation is lots easier than driving a bus… but still I couldn't relax fully as we might get jumped by enemy fighters even on our side of the FLOT.

Time passed slowly as we cruised at 250kts towards the FLOT, we were at 23000 ft so we had a nice panoramic view of North Korea even though the haze clouded visibility at a distance.

One of my flight instructors back at the OCU, Boomer, once said "flying combat missions are 95% boredom and 5% sheer adrenaline". Well I guess he knew what he was talking about!

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Account written by... Dragon

According to TWS it was nose hot to me approx. 5000ft below, I was at approx. Angels 25 at this point. I did not get any ID from the new NCTR system. So I got on the Radio "AWACS Declare", as AWACS was replying one of the others said something via R/W and drowned out the reply, Lousy timing I thought.

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Account written by... NoJoke

I very quickly found myself getting MiG-29 spikes from 11 to 1 o'clock ahead of me (the new contacts) and the contacts I had on my radar seemed to open up to approximately 8-12 individual returns. At this stage I had no Idea the contacts were anything but bogeys due to the AWACS calls I had had.

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Account written by... Skylark

Flt Lt Skylark has viewed the footage and his view of the event is included here.

Cowboy flight consisted of Bigbrother as Flight lead, Skylark as his no.2; Sparrow as Lead of flight 2 with Phantom as his no.2.

Enroute home we ran into a group of 4 SU27s on CAP patrol nearby the home plate. The group were engaged by Bigbrother, Sparrow and Skylark.

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Account written by... Sparrow

It was amazing that the Slammer didn't explode in the vicinity of the bandit. Nevertheless, I switched to the heat and got a solid lock. "Fox two". I saw the missile leave the rail and got blinded for a second. But this missile missed the bastard too. With a hard right hand turn, I got behind this bandit and locked him with an AMRAAM. "Fox three". This time, I saw the AMRAAM hitting the bandit in the tail. I called "Splash bandit" and felt excited although I just killed a human being.

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