This scenario is the fourth of four scenarios wherein a Chernarus naval spetnaz strike team takes an airfield away from the enemy. The one immediately preceding this one takes place at the airfield in Krasnostav, while this one takes place at the main airport near Kabanino.
The following is the briefing:
Major, naval intelligence has located a group of civilians the Chedakis kidnapped two weeks ago, at a small Russian manned airbase in extreme northern Chernarus.
The civilians have been identified as the mayor of Krasnoyarsk, Arsen Katukov his deputy Igor Ivanov, their wives respectively, Olga Bolodova and Larissa Mashunova, and four unidentified female relatives; six women and two men in all. Intelligence thinks they are being held at a small detention facility at the airport. Intelligence thinks the prisoners are being abused and are scheduled be transported into Russia by the morning. We do not have much time.
The Admiral has approved your plan. Your team and another team will insert into the airport from the south aboard MI-17 transport birds escorted by two more MI-17 gunships. Your "B" team will insert at the southern end of the runway, dismount and attack the six aircraft on the ground, eliminating any sentries in the area and destroying the aircraft with explosives.
Simultaneously, your "A" team will insert in the middle of the runway, and make for the detention facility, eliminating all resistance, collecting intelligence documents from any dead officers, and freeing the prisoners. Your team medic will provide first aid to any injured civilians, and then a team member will escort the hostages to the transport bird.
Once the hostages are safe, you will head to the control tower, and download all data from their computer systems. Your team will then destroy any remaining enemy aircraft, along with fuel trucks, then board everybody aboard your transport bird. By then, your "B" team will should have their task complete and will be leaving as well.
The airport is lightly guarded, and the Chedakis and Russians are not expecting this kind of action this deep in Chedaki territory. A single Chedaki rifle squad set as a quick reaction force is housed in Kabanino, but they are not expected to arrive in time to help their comrades. The entire operation should take no more than about 30 minutes.
All the best, Major.
This scenario did not quite work out as planned, as will be seen:
For some reason the wrong init file is being read. The scenario is supposed to start at 2000 hrs and the weather is supposed to be random. This started at 2300 hrs, which is close enough to the original start time.
The transport bird and the escort bird spin up and take off for the moonlit ride to the airport. "B" team will board their bird and take off just a minute later, and we'll rendezvous about three kilometers south of the airport.
After a few minutes the bird makes landfall south of Chernogorsk. Both birds are flying treetop level with the transport bird flying at 40 meters above the deck while the escort bird about 20 meters higher, lights on and normal speed. 40 meters at night is about as low as an AI pilot can go at normal speed without crashing into trees.
Lights off after reaching the rendezvous point, the "A" team waits for the second strike team birds to arrive.
The plan calls for the "A" team to insert once "B" is on the ground, and so it is time to go.
The "A" team bird approaches from the southwest. The "B" team bird is already on the ground, and the team is heading for the enemy aircraft.
The lead from the escort birds is really flying now, as "A" team bird lands, and the team exits. The "A" team objective is to the left about 200 meters away from the insertion point.
"A" team starts taking fire from enemy sentries. The "A" team second in command is dead and the medic is hit. The commander kills the rifleman firing, and notices another inside the guard house.
The threat is suppressed, the medic gives himself first aid, so the commander starts for his objective, the detention facility.
Approaching the objective. One dead enemy rifleman, and the enemy transport bird can be seen, along with the fuel trucks to the right. Both are targets.
Targeting laser on! An enemy rifleman is seen at the side door of the guard house and is quickly dispatched. An officer is prone to the right as the commander approaches the detention facility.
A team member eliminates the officer while the commander kills everyone else in the guard house.
A sentry standing his post at the end of the hallway of the detention facility is eliminated by the commander.
An unarmed enemy officer and a civilian are caught in the shower room and eliminated by the commander.
