Ace Combat 7 Skies Untold (Unofficial AU) Mission 03 Farbanti Assault
Channel: Strider 117 Aldo
Date: 2019-06-05

My voiceover of the third mission of njmksr's Skies Untold AU. Credit goes to the author; voiceover work done by me. 

Mission 03: Farbanti Assault
Farbanti, Erusea
May 30, 2019
OMDF

Briefing:
Alright, everybody, listen up! 
We're going to try to put an end to this war fast and hard. If we can take air superiority over Farbanti and occupy the city, I think we'll be able to convince the Erusean King to surrender. We do that, and we're fairly certain a large part of the Erusean military will follow their government, but we should be able to clean up the stragglers a lot easier than if we have to fight the entire Erusean military.

The OFS Albatross has been ordered to back up the OFS Kestrel II, the other surviving Osean carrier. You'll be assisting VFA-206, the Shorebirds, in conducting air strikes on the military installations within the city.

No dumb firing. Precision munitions only. We don't want a repeat of Bana, but I don't see how we're going to avoid civilian casualties. Remember that the quicker we can end the war, the less people are going to die. Taking out the priority targets is essential if we want to secure the city and force them to surrender. 

You've all been through your psych evals and some of you are grounded because of it. You're going to notice that those people are mostly the guys who lost family members in the attacks on the fifteenth. This isn't a revenge vendetta. The sailors of the OMDF are professionals.

We need to destroy the General Headquarters, the naval ports, and several SAM installations scattered throughout the city. Do it fast, and do it as clean as you possibly can. As per the Osean Code of Military Conduct, anyone found responsible for deliberate or excessive civilian casualties will be court-martialed, and I do not make that as an empty threat.

Gear up, pilots. Dismissed.

Mission Details:

Takeoff: Carrier-based, OFS Albatross

Squadron: Mage Squadron (VFA-508)
Lead: Trigger (Mage 2)
Wingmen: Tabloid (Mage 3), Brownie (Mage 4), Count (Mage 5)

Weather & Time: Clear, Dawn

Initial:
Focus: Air-to-Ground
Objectives: Destroy the General Headquarters, Naval Ports, and SAM sites [TGT]. 
Time Limit: 17.5 Minutes
Update:
Focus: Air-to-Air (Superweapon/Ace Squadron)
Objective: Cover allied escape from the Arsenal Bird and Sol Squadron.
[Su-30M2 HPAA | Higher Skill, Higher Health]
Time Limit: 6 Minutes

Landing: Carrier-based, OFS Albatross

Plot Points: Trigger shoots down a plane that crashes into a house. Osean discovery of still-operational and hijacked Arsenal Birds, first appearance of Sol Squadron, minus Mihaly. Trigger and Mage do not disengage when ordered to peel off, opting instead to cover their allies’ escape. Trigger grounded for disobeying a direct order. An allied Osean fighter accidentally bombs the royal convoy, killing the Erusean King.

Debriefing:
Goddammit, this was a disaster. In every way. 
Do any of you have a brain between your ears? The entire point of this operation was to force the King to negotiate, and one of you killed him. Excellent work. 

You are not cowboys, shooting from the hip. You CHECK. your targets! You do not drop bombs unless you are willing to kill the thing in front of you! And you certainly do not drop them in the vicinity of a high value target!

And your shoddy trigger discipline is the least of our problems. Hell, I would have expected that behavior out of you, Trigger, shooting first and asking questions later is how you got your callsign. But we've done some digging, and it was Cobra who killed our HVT, so congratulations, pilot, you are on court-martial. 

Now, it was already bad enough before we found out about the Arsenal Bird! We can kiss our offensive campaign good-bye as long as the zoomies’ overgrown billion-dollar boomerangs are still flying. Hijacked by the Eruseans! Two of the most dangerous weapons in the entire Osean arsenal. We don't even have a way to kill 'em. The APS on those things 'll stop just about anything not designed to kill Ulysses, and I don't suppose any Wondershare Filmora