Another fun (yet oddly named, bowels, yeah, but lungs?) mission offering from the Steam Workshop:
LINK!The first phase of the mission is to take a load of troops in our Mi-48 and insert them near the front lines into a hot LZ. Resources are limited, so we need to be careful with our equipment…
Our PO-30 Orca and Mi-48 stand by at our base…
The Mi-48 Kajman is a pretty fun helicopter. An attack helo that also carries troops in a lower compartment (much like the Mi-28 does)…
Off we go…
You can see the troops stuffed into the lower cargo/passenger compartment…
The guys are so battle hardened they sleep on the way to the insertion…
Green smoke marks the LZ. A few shots zip by from the compound on the far side of the hill ahead…
As the troops unload, we are prompted to go participate in the assault. Probably a bad idea, but what the heck…
We advance toward the top of the hill. The more forward troops start engaging as they crest the top…
I pick a spot near the crest of the hill and start firing into the compound. I see a couple guys running around, but I don’t hit them…
The rest of the squad keeps assaulting and I’m given the all clear to detach and return to my helicopter. I work my way back down the hill and the squad mops up on the hilltop…
The next mission comes down the pipe to go perform some CAS up to the northwest. Special Forces have popped smoke on the target they want us to engage, so we fire up and head that way…
As we approach the area my gunner opens up on some targets…
Things get a bit interesting as a few missiles streak up from the coast. I pop flares and that decoys them, but I get into a bit of VRS, fortunately just avoiding the water as I pull out of it…
I spot the clusters of red smoke and start pouring rockets and cannon onto them…
No more anti-aircraft fire bothers us, so we orbit the red smoke and train the gun on the area and lay down rounds until we hit the defenders and are cleared off target…
After the CAS we have been hit a couple times and my engine is showing yellow caution.. I consider heading back to base to repair when then next order comes in - a recon team has been ambushed and requires immediate extraction. I decide to risk it and head for the extraction despite my damaged engine..
On our way to the extraction we pass over the hill we assaulted earlier. It looks like our troops have secured the site...
The extraction is a few kilometers into enemy territory and the requirement is to stay very, very low or you get blasted out of the sky (as I discovered..)
The extraction site is in the town near the smoke in the center. I pick my way toward it carefully..watching for obstacles and trying to keep as low as possible. Absolutely awesomely fun helicopter flying...
The recon squad pops smoke and I see they have picked a small courtyard. A tight fit (at least to me) but we get down safely..
C'mon boys..hurry up!
They all climb aboard and it's time to power out..
As we leave I can see where the recon team was ambushed..
We head for the north coast and as we head offshore we spot an enemy patrol boat. I lock him up and fire a missile...
Approaching home base I actually crash three times in a row from VRS. I'm assuming that the heavy weight of the troops and my ailing engine are the cause because I can barely hold a hover with full power and once I get into VRS I don't have enough power to move forward and muscle my way out of it. After a few tries I finally get soft enough on the controls to get it done..
A fantastic mission design and fun. About 30 minutes worth of flying with a few different and varied objectives. I would have liked for it to generate more missions, but it was great while it lasted. I have to say, the Russian helicopters seem a lot more fun to me in this game than the Western/NATO ones. The Mi-48 Kajman, the Taru, and the Orca are all a lot of fun to fly..
BeachAV8R