All the flight crews returned to the coalition net on their radios. The Iraqi column had no air support, and they could identify no ground-based air defense either. Mark 20s, cleared hot.” The three pilots, two captains and a first lieutenant acknowledged, and the four-ship split into two groups. Unlike the long-range communications, on the internal net they used personal callsigns. The Marine pilot was grateful for her silence and switched to the inter-flight network. She knew enough to know that at this point and at her range from the engagement zone, she would be no use to the pilots. Out.” The Air Force controller accepted their response and ceased speaking. The vehicles had shown on the displays of their Norden AN/APQ-156 multi-mode radar well before they were visible by the human eye.
Honor flight sortied with the intention of gaining exactly what they had, an ID of the three-mile convoy. Soon thereafter, an Air Force E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or JSTARS, identified the large contingent of vehicles. The first report came from intelligence assets. They knew the request was transiting up the chain of command. The three tails with him, Honor Zero-2, 3, and 4, could hear the exchange between their flight lead and the controller. Armored personnel carriers, tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles formed a percentage of the convoy. One thousand vehicles, give or take, were moving north along Highway 80 out of Kuwait City toward Iraq. Chunky confirmed his initial sighting report.
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controller did not wish to see aircraft under his control strike the column if it was full of Kuwaiti civilians. “Honor Zero-1, Hazard, confirm PID Iraqi forces.” The request was understandable. Request hostile declaration, ID Iraqi armor in the column.” Eyeball approximately one-zero-zero-zero vehicles transiting north along Highway 80. Holding hands with dash-two through four.
The mission lead, Major Lee “Chunky” Fletcher, immediately keyed the radio setting for the Coalition ground control. Eight Marines, four pilots and four naval flight officers, listened for the exchange between their lead and the controllers. The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing A-6E Intruders had been flying as a division, two two-ships of the attack planes, when the massive column was identified. The scene before the aircraft was an attack pilot’s wet dream. Welcome to Remnant.with a twist.There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. The battle for the world is about to begin. And Reaper Flight doesn’t know who to trust, who their true enemies are, or even their friends… It is the same route that Ruby’s mother Summer took…before she disappeared. Now codenamed Reaper Flight, they are making their way to Japan, to meet with Leonardo Lionheart.
Ruby Rose has joined with the remaining members of Juniper Flight-Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie, and Pyrrha Nikos-in a mission to track down who was behind the infiltration of JRB Beacon and the Vytal Flag exercise. Blake Belladonna is an emotional wreck, heading home to Menagerie to come to terms with the return of her former lover, the White Fang terrorist Adam Taurus. Weiss Schnee is isolated, practically imprisoned in her family mansion in Germany. Yang Xiao Long is crippled, having lost an arm in the fighting. Joint Base Beacon is in ruins, and the survivors pick up the pieces in a world divided. Captain Ozpin is dead, as is Jaune Arc, Penny Polendina, and a dozen other pilots.