Iceberg

### Reward(s)

70,000 credits + variable amount depending on the number of enemies taken out and how they were taken out

### Unlocks

F4D-1 Skyray (40,000 credits) (If mission is completed with Brian Douglas)

### Unlocked by

Starting Phase 5 (Can be done after completing Twister or Lone Wolf)

     **Spoiler Warning:** *There are spoilers for the details of the plot and/or ending in the text that follows.*

**Iceberg** is a mission for the 2nd Element of Delta Squadron in *Airforce Delta Strike*.

## Overview

The E.D.A.F.'s weather research vessel spotted an enemy fleet in the polar region. They appear to be attempting to outflank the E.D.A.F. and Lilia Mihajlovna suspects that they're planning to come through a relatively undefended area for a direct ground assault. The enemy fleet is well-camouflaged and will be hard to spot. They have aircraft carriers disguised as huge ice floes. Delta Squadron 2nd Element is dispatched to cooperate with the other units to destroy the enemy fleet and stop all of them from escaping the area. During the mission, 2nd Element encounters Sergei Kinski piloting an Su-32FN. Despite that, they manage to find all of the enemy ships disguised as ice floes and destroy them before they can escape, completing the mission.

## Walkthrough

This mission can be very difficult since the Type-E9: Holders disguised as ice floes are each made of three components you must destroy. For each Holder, one component is on the top, but another is on the inside of the ship and the third is on the bottom. If you use an attacker with missiles, you'll have to fly through the carriers several times to destroy their weak points and the space to fly inside of them is very narrow. Using a plane with rockets like Holst's A-10A Thunderbolt II or Brian's A-4M Skyhawk can make this mission much easier since the splash damage of the rockets ignores the ice blocking the Holders' weak points and destroys them regardless, eliminating the need to fly through the carriers. The splash damage of Fuel-Air Explosive Bombs and Rocket Pods is also quite effective against the Holders. The Holders attack with torpedoes that are easy to avoid if you approach them from below, but if you approach them from above, the target they have on top will fire missiles at you unless you destroy it. There are also many submarines in the water that are stationary but can be dangerous if you're not careful. There are five Type-E9: Holders and two of them are stationary, but the other three are moving and will leave the battlefield if you don't destroy them in enough time. It's best to go after the ones that move first. The carriers occasionally submerge, so the target component they have underneath them becomes impossible to destroy until after the carrier rises again.

There are few enemies in the air, but the one you should definitely watch out for is Sergei in his Su-32FN which is arguably his best plane. He's fast and he can be deadly with his missiles if you don't ignore him.

## Reward

The reward for this mission is 70,000 credits plus a variable amount depending on the number of enemies taken out and the type of weapon that was used to take them out. If the mission was completed with Brian Douglas, his F4D-1 Skyray is unlocked for 40,000 credits.

## Gallery

Type-E9 hangar.Ditto.Sergei Kinski
(Su-32FN)Russian submarine Dmitriy Donskoi (TK-208)Type-E9: Holder
(Despina, Galatea, Larissa)Ditto.F-14D TomcatSH-3H Sea KingE-3C SentryE-2C HawkeyeUSS Nimitz (CVN-68)USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)Kongō-class destroyerIcebreaker

## Trivia

* This mission has the most allied reinforcements compare to Fleet Attack.
* Despina, Galatea, and Larissa are names of the moons of Neptune.