Ghosts Session Debrief 070531

Kolgujev, Nihilist. 

Four members participated in this mission, but not all at once. Mission involved using a UH60 Blackhawk to fly south from the remote island off Kolgujev, to a cold landing zone, at a derelict village on the west the island. Attack was a night one, and NV goggles were equiped to all. We has several unsuccessful attempts, so I'm going to summarise our learning. 

The landing zone is not completely 'cold', as there is a guard at the fuel depot a couple of clicks to the West. One is a strela-2 ground to air missile soldier. And i can confirm that if you stay airbourne to long or too high, he will have a shot at you. The strela is an infra red homing missile, difficult ot evade in the heavy blackhawk. 

We got the bird down safely, and proceed east initially instead of west. We didn't loose much time, and quickly were on track. One was controlling the AI's, and we tackled the four guards at the gas station, removed and Strea shoulder rocket launcher from one of the dead, and after 'satchel' charging the fuel truck, mission objective one was complete and we pushed on to the base camp. . We counted up at eight enemy soldiers, some of them special forces, and a roving BMP on the west of the camp. We were hoping the strela had enough punch to incapacitate the BMP,  while the sniper M24 was going to take on some of the guards. 

A direct hit on the bmp with the Strela, didn't stop it in its tracks, so maybe the satchel charge is going to be needed. This is always a difficult approach since the bmp is generally free moving, and not predictable. It is key to this mission, since there's only one enterance to the camp. 

The M24 was reasonably useful for the fuel depot, and the shooter got a good safe position at about 300m. It was, however, ineffective at the safe range overlooking the camp, because it recoils after a shot and the shooter cant see the impact point to make adjustments. A possible solution would be for another member to act as the viewer, and call out corrections to the shooter. A position closer to the camp would put the sniper in the open, and expose him to the BMP's formidable cannon. 

Hammer suggested an alternative approah with 4 members. Take the garage, and 2 return to the chopper, one as gunner. The other two to get to the camp and tackle the BMP. When that is' done, use  UH60 to tackle the troops in the camp. 

Some notable qoutes. 

"I'd hate to be Filing the report on the helicopter that rolled into the sea........ cause it was parked on a slope....'

"Does anyone have chocks we could put under the blackhawk, to stop it rolling"

"Four, go Danger", pause., "four go danger" "f....ing useless AI's. pause "Oops", "Three go danger", "thats better".

Fish.