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So you're all in the air, right?
After what seems like way too long flying, you encounter the convoy.

: Picking up a flight of friendlies. Must be the Aesthians from McNamara.

: Finally, a stroke of good fortune! This trip has been nothing but trouble. Damned Huits keep throwing themselves at us in droves, and I don't even know how they've been able to penetrate this deep behind our front lines.
As you fall in closer to the convoy and enter visual range, you see your target. Looks like a pair of cargo planes and an AWACS. Their current escort is a handful of F-23s, no more than three. One of them appears to be smoking after a recent engagement.