Disclaimer: I don't own Ace Combat or Dogfights.
Narrator: (Shows an overhead view of an island.) It was the final step in preparing for ISAF's offensive campaign against Erusea in the Continental War. With naval and ground forces fully organized for the offensive, the recon satellite being launched is the final key (Shows five Yellows in attack formation.) and Erusea is ready to do anything to prevent it. (Shows five F-15Cs on patrol around the island.) Through state-of-the-art computer animation, you are in the cockpit of the head of ISAF's defense of the island. Experience the battle (Shows the F-15s break formation), dissect the tactics (shows a massive furball from an inverted F-15 cockpit), relive (Shows an over-the-right-tail-wing view of an F-15 and a missile's smoke trail leading to an explosion in the upper-right corner.) the dogfights.
(Intro from Dogfights plays)
Shattered Skies
(The opening computer scene shows a multitude of fighters on patrol above an island being led by a group of five F-15Cs.)
Narrator: Dec. 31, 2004. Independent State Allied Forces are on the edge of defeat in the war with Erusea. They have barely survived one attack by Erusea after another. Now ISAF plans to launch a recon satellite from the Comona Islands rocket base. This satellite will be used to provide tactical data on Erusea's ground forces. But Erusian intelligence has found out about this plan and has deployed a large number of their air superiority fighters to prevent this launch. (The computer image zooms in on the five F-15s above the other fighters.) Leading the defense force is the Mobius Squadron, a local legendary air group, and the leader of the squad is the legend of legends: Major Isaac Duvall, Mobius One.
(The view shifts to inside the F-15 cockpit.) Suddenly, Mobius One's radar goes off. The enemy has arrived.
(Image changes to a brown haired and brown-eyed middle-aged man in an air force dress uniform. The name that shows up is "Brig. Gen. Isaac Duvall, 'Mobius 1', ISAF)
Isaac: We weren't expecting what we saw. We had expected to encounter mainly bombers with a squad or two of fighter escort.
(Image shifts to the five computer-generated F-15s again. They bank starboard and head away.)
Narrator: But the enemy has still arrived and the defense must engage. But it is not going to be easy. (The image shifts to five Su-37s at the front of the attack force.) The attack force is being led by Yellow Squadron, the elite of the Erusian Air Force. Every pilot on this squadron is at least a double ace. And the Mobius squadron will be facing them head on.
Commercial Break…
Return… (Image of Mobius Squadron flying full afterburner past the camera.)
Narrator: Dec. 31, 2004. ISAF is trying to launch a recon satellite to obtain information on Erusea's ground defense movements. (Shifts to Yellow Squadron.) An Erusian attack force led by the elite Yellow Squadron has arrived to prevent the launch. (Shifts to F -15 cockpit interior.) The leader of the defense force, Mobius 1, gains radar lock. But before he can launch a missile, the SU-37s scatter and the rest of the attack force follows suit. (Shows the defense force copying the move.) He orders the defense to do the same and engage targets individually.
(Shifts to interview.)
Isaac: I didn't want to provide them with a clustered group of targets. If I did do that, we would've taken hits from everywhere. The only choice left was to make it a furball.
(Shifts to over the tail right wing view of Mobius One's plane climbing.)
Narrator: Mobius One gets onto the tail of an enemy MIG-29. He gains positive radar lock and fires a wingtip sidewinder (There an explosion in the upper right corner of the screen.) It's a direct hit. This is Mobius One's 52nd kill of the war. (F-15 inverts and performs a loop and heads back the other way. The view from the cockpit interior shows a massive furball.) (Shifts to interview.)
Isaac: I couldn't get my bearings right away. It was difficult to initially distinguish friend and foe, since every type of air superiority craft imaginable was airborne that day.
(Shifts to same over the tail view.)
Narrator: Suddenly Mobius One spots a prime target at his 2 o'clock (Image zooms in.) An Allied F-16 is being pursued by a Yellow. (Shifts to F -15 front.) He engages full afterburner and pursues the Yellow. Right when he gets a missile lock, the Su-37 banks hard right. He engages his speed brake and follows. (Image shows the front of the Yellow and the F-15 coming up behind it.) Because the Yellow turns tighter, Mobius One has ended up closer. So he lines up his pipper on the Yellow and fires a volley of gunfire. (Image shows the gunshots hit and the Yellow starts trailing smoke.) (Shifts to interview.)
Isaac: I was stunned. I didn't expect to actually hit him. That was when I started to focus more and more solely on him and him only. Good thing there was no one pursuing me.
(Shifts to F-15 following the smoking Yellow.)
Narrator: But before he can make the kill, Mobius One gets a disturbing call: Stealth bombers are on approach to the base. (Shifts to interview.)
Isaac: I couldn't even begin to describe my disappointment and frustration. I was going to be the first Allied pilot to bag a Yellow and this happens. (Shifts to Mobius One banking left, heading away from the Yellow and being joined by two other F-15s and then back to the interview.) The only upside was that I was told after the battle that the AWACS picked up a communiqué from the Yellows asking, "Who shot me? Who the hell did that? It was a ribbon." So I still left my mark. (Shifts back to the three F-15s.)
Narrator: For the attack on the stealth bombers, Mobius One is joined by Capt. Kevin Johnson, Mobius 3, and Lt. William Chambers, Mobius 5. (Image shows the three F-15s strike the bombers while they are in formation and head back. Shifts to interview of a black haired, green-eyed man in an air force dress uniform. The name that shows is Lt. Col. Kevin Johnson, 'Mobius 3', ISAF.)
Kevin: When we got back to the launch site, we saw that the Yellow Squadron wasn't there anymore. We found out afterwards that because of Mobius One's attack on the Yellow, the leader decided to pull the squad back. It's a good thing too because they decimated our defense force. (Shifts to view of the returning F-15s.)
Narrator: The defense force has suffered great losses, but the mission is successful. The attack force has been almost completely wiped out and the recon satellite has been launched. It will provide highly useful information that will be used in the later successful Operation: Bunker Shot. It's all thanks to Mobius One, Mobius Squadron, and the ISAF defense force.
Next time: (Shows an image of Stonehenge) It was originally designed to shoot down asteroids, but Erusea turned it into an anti-aircraft weapon. It drove the ISAF back (shows a half a dozen F/A-18C Hornets armed to the teeth with missiles and bombs heading toward the screen) until a special squadron was sent in. And one air-to-air kill (shows an over-the-right-tail on a hornet firing a sidewinder and it hits a fighter in the upper right corner of the screen) will change the Allies view on winning the war. Next time: Breaking Stonehenge.
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