Snips:
The damage inflicted by Iran on US military bases in the Persian Gulf region, including from a successful attack on a US base by an Iranian fighter jet, is far worse than publicly acknowledged by the White House, NBC News reported on 26 April.
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Most notably, an Iranian F-5 fighter jet successfully evaded layered US air defenses to bomb the US base Camp Buehring in Kuwait during the early days of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the NBC report stated.
The successful strike directly undermined US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the Iranian Air Force had been “completely obliterated.”
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The last incident of an enemy warplane successfully hitting a major US military base reportedly occurred in 1953, during the Korean War. North Korea’s air force carried out a low-altitude night raid in April of that year that killed two US soldiers on Cho-do Island. For more than 70 years following that incident, the US maintained near-total air superiority over its military bases.
The manga is pretty cool too! Sadly only the first couple of volumes got translated. There’s an anime ova too.
That’s cool, how’s the story? I never got much from the game besides us fighting some terrorists or something. But it’s one of my favorite Shmups that I’ll play occasionally or listen to the OST.
It’s about mercs in a fictional west asian country who fight in the war to repay debts they owe. They get cash for flying missions, it follows a Japanese pilot. I didn’t get very far because I shelved it for berserk to finish that up.
Ahh, ok, so it’s similar to the game in how you make money off missions to buy new airplanes or deck yourself out.
yeppers
Oh it gets much more fucked up than that. The pilot it follows, Shin, his story is that his friend got him drunk and tricked him into signing the merc contract, his buddy did this to try to get him killed/out of the way so he could effectively try to steal his girlfirend. The plan run into a small snag, Shin just happens to be really good at being a fighter pilot. And so it follows him trying to make enough money to buyout the contract so he can escape and go back to life, except…
spoiler
Shin after getting out finds that he spent so long effectively fighting for his life and survival that he ends up going back to being a merc because he just can’t adapt back to civilian life.
If you wonder why it feels like a ace combat plot, that’s because ace combat’s inspiration is vaguely said to be Area 88. Which is also why I have near zero confidence that AC8 is going to good because all the promotional material feels like they dropped every single bit of the Area 88 inspirations, and dropped Top Gun in it’s place.