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So. Picture this. You're a North Korean air traffic controller. Your post? A piece of converted highway used for emergency operations by the NK Air Force. Despite the second Korean war being waged to your south, you don't get much business - primarily because MiG 17's don't stand much of a chance against modern American military equipment. It's about 10PM on the second day of the war. South Korea and the Americans have already turned back the ill-planned invasion and have pressed on into North Korea. Just 20 miles south of your position, an American armored division is securing control of a factory complex. you're listening to the radio chatter, and a mere 10 miles away, you hear 4 more antique MiGs get splashed. If you squint, you can see the fireballs in the clear night sky. So you sip on your coffee - or whatever the hell North Korean ATC's drink on the graveyard shift in the middle of a war. Suddenly, you just about wet yourself as 3 F-16's, mere hundreds of feet above you, make their first bombing run - scattering 18 anti-runway bombs down your 9000ft airstrip. Seconds later, a 4th F-16 passes low overhead and drops a 500lb bomb into the radio tower mere feet from your so-called control tower. Your building suffers damage, but doesn't collapse. The 4th plane makes 3 more passes - scattering 5 more bombs across your field - destroying everything. Things are quiet for a few moments - and then the 4th aircraft makes a fifth pass and drops 6 more anti-runway bombs onto the pavement to add insult to injury.
You're the luckiest fsck in the entire damn war. But you'll probably be executed for it - unless those American tanks get here tonight.
Damage assessment recon.
(Falcon 4.0: Allied Force. I was piloting #4.)
So. Picture this. You're a North Korean air traffic controller. Your post? A piece of converted highway used for emergency operations by the NK Air Force. Despite the second Korean war being waged to your south, you don't get much business - primarily because MiG 17's don't stand much of a chance against modern American military equipment. It's about 10PM on the second day of the war. South Korea and the Americans have already turned back the ill-planned invasion and have pressed on into North Korea. Just 20 miles south of your position, an American armored division is securing control of a factory complex. you're listening to the radio chatter, and a mere 10 miles away, you hear 4 more antique MiGs get splashed. If you squint, you can see the fireballs in the clear night sky. So you sip on your coffee - or whatever the hell North Korean ATC's drink on the graveyard shift in the middle of a war. Suddenly, you just about wet yourself as 3 F-16's, mere hundreds of feet above you, make their first bombing run - scattering 18 anti-runway bombs down your 9000ft airstrip. Seconds later, a 4th F-16 passes low overhead and drops a 500lb bomb into the radio tower mere feet from your so-called control tower. Your building suffers damage, but doesn't collapse. The 4th plane makes 3 more passes - scattering 5 more bombs across your field - destroying everything. Things are quiet for a few moments - and then the 4th aircraft makes a fifth pass and drops 6 more anti-runway bombs onto the pavement to add insult to injury.
You're the luckiest fsck in the entire damn war. But you'll probably be executed for it - unless those American tanks get here tonight.
Damage assessment recon.
(Falcon 4.0: Allied Force. I was piloting #4.)
