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[NoZoner]

"Dammit. Snowman, extending to low." Lorens turns his aircraft around. To keep his IR signature tame, he opts to trade his altitude for speed and dives away from the drone swarm.

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[Qwepir]

Walter fires his lcps on culex-35

"Picking up c35."

Culex 35 is shot down, leaving 19 drones remaining to try and kill you.

"Nevermind then, retreating back to missile range." Ellie heads back to missile range of the drones.

Jaakko maneuvers the Tukreb erratically and doubles back to get away from the Culexes' guns, weary of the hole already in his fuselage.

"Dammit. Snowman, extending to low." Lorens turns his aircraft around. To his IR signature tame, he opts to trade his altitude for speed and dives away from the drone swarm.

The rest of your squadron abandons you.

The Djuriskas pilots knock out another handful of drones, but fifteen still remain. Walter takes three hits to the fuselage and picks up two missiles as the drones prioritize the greater threats.

[Operator¹]

"Snowman, I'm re-engaging the drones now, let's hit them with seekers."

Ellie decloaks and fires two HSMs on Culex-3 and an AAM and HSM on Culex-4.

[Gojira]

Markus turns around and fires an RGM each at Culexes 7 and 8. Radar munitions exhausted, he keeps his nose pointed in towards the drone swarm.

[Badger]

Walter drops three flare packages and evades, he then turns to culex-25 to fire his lasers again, feeling evading more to evade the guns won't prove viable at this time.

"Picking c25"

[Qwepir]

"Snowman, I'm re-engaging the drones now, let's hit them with seekers."

Ellie decloaks and fires two HSMs on Culex-3 and an AAM and HSM on Culex-4.

Both drones are destroyed.

Markus turns around and fires an RGM each at Culexes 7 and 8. Radar munitions exhausted, he keeps his nose pointed in towards the drone swarm.

The missiles fly towards the drones.

Walter drops three flare packages and evades, he then turns to culex-25 to fire his lasers again, feeling evading more to evade the guns won't prove viable at this time.
"Picking c25"

The missiles go for the bait, but you miss the drone.

Several more drones are thinned out by allied fire, but Walt takes a few bad hits to the left wing.

Drones are now at point blank to Walter and Djuriskas.

[Badger]

Walter tries to pop culex-25 with his flak cannon then evades in an attempt to throw off the drones gun fire.

[Operator¹]

"Firing on 7, 9, 11, and 16."

Ellie fires AAMs at each of these targets.

[Qwepir]

Walter tries to pop culex-25 with his flak cannon then evades in an attempt to throw off the drones gun fire.

The flak cannon misses altogether.

"Firing on 7, 9, 11, and 16."

Ellie fires AAMs at each of these targets.

All four are taken out.

Djuriskas is able to remove the last three drones, leaving the airspace clear except for the retreating planes.

[Badger]

Walter surveys the damage to his plane

"Hmph. I took a bit of a beating there but I'm still functional and able to fight. We have anybody new coming or is it just those guys running off?"

[Qwepir]

Walter surveys the damage to his plane

"Hmph. I took a bit of a beating there but I'm still functional and able to fight. We have anybody new coming or is it just those guys running off?"

: Negative. No new contacts.
: What? That's it!?

[Badger]

"That does seem underwhelming. Wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to skip around us and attack the naval group from another angle."

[Operator¹]

"Mjolnir 1-3, requesting vector to resupply."

[Gojira]

"Something about this doesn't seem right."
Markus checks every radar band, to ensure there's no stealth aircraft, then checks FLIR, before following everyone to resupply.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"That's not all of them. Can't be-," Crash says.

"1-1 requesting resupply if available,"