Operation Sidewinder
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Jericho Antares
FAKKU Writer
Found a nice pic, decided to write a passage to go with it.
The noise of the gunship's massive rotor drowned out nearly all thought, but Joshua Atrios and his team knew the objective, and it was all flying through their heads at alarming speed.
Hot-drop at DZ, proceed five hundred meters north-west to designated emergency beacon. Recover Marine Force Recon team callsign 'Chaos One Six'. Perform four-corners sweep and collapse formation onto Force Recon operators. Return cargo to gunship, clear DZ, dustoff. Estimated time for mission completion: ten minutes.
That was the briefing, plain and simple. The same routine Atrios and his men had encountered and overcome countless times. He made a point not to bring a target home dead.
"Passing the DZ in twenty seconds, get ready!" The pilot yelled to the cabin, his voice also acutely calm. One of the two crew chiefs stood from his seat and entered the seat for the 30mm chin gun while the other readied to open the door. The seconds calmly ticked by until they felt the landing gear touch upon solid ground.
"Touch down, get ready to...Oh, shit! Contacts, spin up the fucking cannon!" The pilot yelled, losing his cool. The crew chief began firing the cannon into the forest around the gunship and the other crew chief opened the door to assess the situation.
All around the clearing in the dense forest, tracers flew from the trees, bouncing harmlessly off the hull of the gunship. The crew chief swore and looked to Atrios.
"Can't let you guys go in there, it's too hot! We'll have to pull back and attempt another incursion later!"
"Fuck that! Those guys need our help, we're going to get them!" Atrios responded as he jumped from the helicopter and landed on the dirt below. His rifle bounced around on its sling as he unholstered his sidearm and began firing into the treeline. His team was out soon after, each of them firing as well. The crew chief reached out to them, yelling a warning.
All the while the gunship's cannon resonated its loud report as it fired into the night.
Picture is titled "Into the Fray" by Ukitakumuki
The noise of the gunship's massive rotor drowned out nearly all thought, but Joshua Atrios and his team knew the objective, and it was all flying through their heads at alarming speed.
Hot-drop at DZ, proceed five hundred meters north-west to designated emergency beacon. Recover Marine Force Recon team callsign 'Chaos One Six'. Perform four-corners sweep and collapse formation onto Force Recon operators. Return cargo to gunship, clear DZ, dustoff. Estimated time for mission completion: ten minutes.
That was the briefing, plain and simple. The same routine Atrios and his men had encountered and overcome countless times. He made a point not to bring a target home dead.
"Passing the DZ in twenty seconds, get ready!" The pilot yelled to the cabin, his voice also acutely calm. One of the two crew chiefs stood from his seat and entered the seat for the 30mm chin gun while the other readied to open the door. The seconds calmly ticked by until they felt the landing gear touch upon solid ground.
"Touch down, get ready to...Oh, shit! Contacts, spin up the fucking cannon!" The pilot yelled, losing his cool. The crew chief began firing the cannon into the forest around the gunship and the other crew chief opened the door to assess the situation.
All around the clearing in the dense forest, tracers flew from the trees, bouncing harmlessly off the hull of the gunship. The crew chief swore and looked to Atrios.
"Can't let you guys go in there, it's too hot! We'll have to pull back and attempt another incursion later!"
"Fuck that! Those guys need our help, we're going to get them!" Atrios responded as he jumped from the helicopter and landed on the dirt below. His rifle bounced around on its sling as he unholstered his sidearm and began firing into the treeline. His team was out soon after, each of them firing as well. The crew chief reached out to them, yelling a warning.
All the while the gunship's cannon resonated its loud report as it fired into the night.
Spoiler:
Picture is titled "Into the Fray" by Ukitakumuki
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Jericho Antares
FAKKU Writer
I would think so. It may be a Hind/Apache hybrid, though, with the inclusion of the longbow up top.
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mibuchiha
Fakku Elder
So I wasn't good not only in writing military stuff, reading too, huh. I can't really get it until my third reading... x_x
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Jericho Antares
FAKKU Writer
Here's onw from my vault, Mibu. Maybe it'll be an easier read.
Sharp arctic winds dominated all the senses at once, save for the small thrum of the MH-6E “Little Bird” helicopter’s engines. Zachary Ackerson blinked his eyes rapidly before finally putting on his goggles and gaining a small reprieve from the gale-force winds.
“We’ve got touchdown in one minute, Ackerson.”
“Copy, Two-Four: touchdown in one” Ackerson yelled into the microphone boom that rested only centimeters from his mouth. He looked to his side and saw Anarei already shouldering his M-14 EBR Marksman Rifle and getting ready for the drop.
“Projected time, sir?” Kyubrz asked from the two-man rack on the opposite side of the bird. Ackerson adjusted his boom closer to his mouth and yelled a quick “Thirty!” before pulling the charging handle on his Bushmaster ACR and charging in his first 7.62x39mm round. According to HIGHCOM (High Command) this mission was a quick takedown of an HVI (High-Value Individual) at his coastal safehouse. Four men go in with ammunition identical to those used by the target and apprehend him. Extraction method is a skyhook pickup by a C-130 with the call-sign “Oka Nieba”. It all sounded fine on paper. Only problem was everything sounds good on paper.
“This is Chaos Two-Four; Strike Team Hitman is on the deck.”
“Confirmed, Two-Four. RTB.”
“Copy that, Overlord. Good luck, Ackerson.” Two-Four’s pilot said as Ackerson’s four-man team disembarked from the helicopter and spread out, covering the landing site. A quick scan of the zone proved it clear, just like the intel said. One great thing about black ops is that intel was wrong a lot less often. Ackerson stifled the small amount of relief he felt in his gut. The intel was bound to be wrong at some point. Always was. Anarei and Kyburz proceeded toward the †˜Bravo’ rally point to establish a OP (Observation Post) in the nearby lighthouse.
“Atrios, on me. We’re running close recon.” Ackerson said as he opened his button-up pocket and pulled out a map of the area with rally points and known enemy locations marked down. His index finger immediately found their current grid coordinate and slid around the lighthouse before cutting through a forest to a small collection of houses, which was marked as rally point †˜Romeo’.
“Aye, sir.” Atrios said smoothly as he looked over to the lighthouse, which Anarei and Kyubrz had just breached the door of.
“Keep on your toes, but know we’ve got marksman cover. Spot targets for †˜em. Keep your voice low.” Ackerson added before folding up the map and stowing it. He then removed his goggles and pulled a balaclava over his face before replacing the goggles and nodding to Atrios, who leveled his Benelli M3 Super shotgun and started off in a low crouch. Ackerson picked his ACR from its sling and followed Atrios whilst carefully scanning the area behind him.
“Got two contacts…Neutralized.” Anarei whispered over the COMs, two hisses of a silenced pistol firing filled the silence between his reports.
“Copy that, Anarei. Ready up that OP, I want eyes on rally point Romeo.”
“Wilco, sir. Moving along steadily.” Anarei responded calmly before squelching the channel. Ackerson nodded to Atrios to keep moving, and the two men quickly skirted the lighthouse before sliding down into a light depression just next to the coastline. From there they sprinted fifty yards before finding cover in a forest
Sharp arctic winds dominated all the senses at once, save for the small thrum of the MH-6E “Little Bird” helicopter’s engines. Zachary Ackerson blinked his eyes rapidly before finally putting on his goggles and gaining a small reprieve from the gale-force winds.
“We’ve got touchdown in one minute, Ackerson.”
“Copy, Two-Four: touchdown in one” Ackerson yelled into the microphone boom that rested only centimeters from his mouth. He looked to his side and saw Anarei already shouldering his M-14 EBR Marksman Rifle and getting ready for the drop.
“Projected time, sir?” Kyubrz asked from the two-man rack on the opposite side of the bird. Ackerson adjusted his boom closer to his mouth and yelled a quick “Thirty!” before pulling the charging handle on his Bushmaster ACR and charging in his first 7.62x39mm round. According to HIGHCOM (High Command) this mission was a quick takedown of an HVI (High-Value Individual) at his coastal safehouse. Four men go in with ammunition identical to those used by the target and apprehend him. Extraction method is a skyhook pickup by a C-130 with the call-sign “Oka Nieba”. It all sounded fine on paper. Only problem was everything sounds good on paper.
“This is Chaos Two-Four; Strike Team Hitman is on the deck.”
“Confirmed, Two-Four. RTB.”
“Copy that, Overlord. Good luck, Ackerson.” Two-Four’s pilot said as Ackerson’s four-man team disembarked from the helicopter and spread out, covering the landing site. A quick scan of the zone proved it clear, just like the intel said. One great thing about black ops is that intel was wrong a lot less often. Ackerson stifled the small amount of relief he felt in his gut. The intel was bound to be wrong at some point. Always was. Anarei and Kyburz proceeded toward the †˜Bravo’ rally point to establish a OP (Observation Post) in the nearby lighthouse.
“Atrios, on me. We’re running close recon.” Ackerson said as he opened his button-up pocket and pulled out a map of the area with rally points and known enemy locations marked down. His index finger immediately found their current grid coordinate and slid around the lighthouse before cutting through a forest to a small collection of houses, which was marked as rally point †˜Romeo’.
“Aye, sir.” Atrios said smoothly as he looked over to the lighthouse, which Anarei and Kyubrz had just breached the door of.
“Keep on your toes, but know we’ve got marksman cover. Spot targets for †˜em. Keep your voice low.” Ackerson added before folding up the map and stowing it. He then removed his goggles and pulled a balaclava over his face before replacing the goggles and nodding to Atrios, who leveled his Benelli M3 Super shotgun and started off in a low crouch. Ackerson picked his ACR from its sling and followed Atrios whilst carefully scanning the area behind him.
“Got two contacts…Neutralized.” Anarei whispered over the COMs, two hisses of a silenced pistol firing filled the silence between his reports.
“Copy that, Anarei. Ready up that OP, I want eyes on rally point Romeo.”
“Wilco, sir. Moving along steadily.” Anarei responded calmly before squelching the channel. Ackerson nodded to Atrios to keep moving, and the two men quickly skirted the lighthouse before sliding down into a light depression just next to the coastline. From there they sprinted fifty yards before finding cover in a forest
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Jericho Antares wrote...
I would think so. It may be a Hind/Apache hybrid, though, with the inclusion of the longbow up top.kid....the hind is a hybrid. it can carry troops but still packs the punch.and oh.........its kinda like a RAH66/Hind hybrid.
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Jericho Antares
FAKKU Writer
But the hind also lacks the engines mounted in the fashion that they are on the AH-64, along with the radome inclusion. The gunship depicted had both.
I'm well aware of the Hind's troop transport abilities, but this particular gunship is also MUCH larger if you look to the size of the soldiers in comparison.
EDIT: I'll agree on it being more of a Comanche/Hind hybrid, but I don't see why you had to lecture me on what a Hind is. It's a widely known helicopter and it's an insult to the intelligence of others to assume they don't know about something they're speaking of when there is no hint that they don't. I simply said in the earlier post that it looked to me like an AH-64/Mi-24 mix. Nowhere did I say that a Hind was strictly a gunship.
I'm well aware of the Hind's troop transport abilities, but this particular gunship is also MUCH larger if you look to the size of the soldiers in comparison.
EDIT: I'll agree on it being more of a Comanche/Hind hybrid, but I don't see why you had to lecture me on what a Hind is. It's a widely known helicopter and it's an insult to the intelligence of others to assume they don't know about something they're speaking of when there is no hint that they don't. I simply said in the earlier post that it looked to me like an AH-64/Mi-24 mix. Nowhere did I say that a Hind was strictly a gunship.
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Jericho Antares wrote...
But the hind also lacks the engines mounted in the fashion that they are on the AH-64, along with the radome inclusion. The gunship depicted had both. I'm well aware of the Hind's troop transport abilities, but this particular gunship is also MUCH larger if you look to the size of the soldiers in comparison.
EDIT: I'll agree on it being more of a Comanche/Hind hybrid, but I don't see why you had to lecture me on what a Hind is. It's a widely known helicopter and it's an insult to the intelligence of others to assume they don't know about something they're speaking of when there is no hint that they don't. I simply said in the earlier post that it looked to me like an AH-64/Mi-24 mix. Nowhere did I say that a Hind was strictly a gunship.
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