Team Stirling 🇬🇧

Pete Taylor PS Vet
Gordon Smith NPS
Robert “Bobby” Moore Squad
Mission Rural Drop Zone : Objective ICBM
Insertion Point will be Magdagachinsky District, Amur Oblast

We have reports the Federation is to move an ICBM along P297. Our job is to find it and disable it. We won’t be the only team hunting it so ground support may be available.

15 Isolated Factory
We approached a large abandoned factory, hoping to take advantage of the cover it afforded. As usual Intelligence was out of date and we arrive to find a 6 man patrol already in position.
We engaged quickly, taking out two men each, a Sentry emerged from the Security Office, opened fire but misses all of us, and I hit him with two rounds, the first absorbed by his body armour the second put him down.

14 Housing Complex
Crossing the streets we encounter a military transport (possibly from the 8 man patrol). Smith informs me it is a Gaz – 33097 belonging to the 27th Independent Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. Nerd!

He then proceeds to hammer a bunch of rounds into the canvas cover, Moore comes to his aid and puts rounds through the driver and Hvy Machine Gunner sitting a top the cab (he’s obviously Russian or a Geordie PMC)
We must have missed someone across at the factory because we started taking fire from an Infiltrator Unit and a Security Patrol. The Infiltrator is Suppressed and the Patrol eliminated.

12 Farmland
Coming out the otherside of the town we can see the Highway in the distance across  cultivated fields. The going is boggy and it takes us longer than anticipated to get across. About halfway across we find a small shack and take a breather.

09 Busy Highway
Taking up our position to recon the Highway traffic we see a four man Perimeter Security Team (PERSEC) a two man Security Patrol (SECPAT) and a three man Security Detachment (SECDET).
I take one out man with my Suppressed Glock hoping to keep this contained.
Smith however has different ideas and plasters the whole area with 40mm grenades. Suppressing one team and killing another, the SECDET fire back without effect,  it is at this point I take a minor wound from the PERSEC unit.

I quickly bandaged my lower arm and we pushed forward clearing the stragglers. Trying to conserve ammo I draw my Glock. The round tings off the Patrolmans flask, and the Glock jams forcing me back to my SCAR firing three shots I force two to seek cover while killing the third

Back at the housing complex Moore is still dealing with an Infilitrator Unit and SECPAT.  Three shots take out last of the Patrolmen and the Infiltrator and he double times to our position. In the Farmland Smith breaks from cover and dashes across highway taking out the PERSEC as he goes. Hostile SECDET is completely suppressed

08 Hidden Cache
Moore suddenly starts grinning and shouting “ICBM, I See Big Missile” Dick!
We spot the ICBM coming along highway. Word comes through there is an Apache on station, but at the time I didn’t think we’d need it

Smith clears the stragglers from the Highway as Moore catches up and I take an Overwatch position on the launcher.
A PERSEC team engage Moore and Smith takes a wound to the chest.

07 ICBM
No time to aid Smith, time was running low and we needed to assault our mission objective. Smith returns fire on PERSEC position, laying down suppressive fire before moving on the launcher.
Moore, two pin point shots take the PERSEC team and allow him to get eyes on the far side of the launcher.

At this point with Smith and myself wounded I decide to request air support to take out ICBM rather than risk further enemy engagement.

As I’m requesting air assault to engage the ICBM.
Three things happened, we hear a heavy engine roar into life, Bobby appears running towards us as if chased by the legions of hell itself and a T-72 SIM-1 emerges from behind ICBM. Shit!

06 ICBM
The AAC air support is on the ball and my request to change target priority to the T-72 has an immediate effect, our Lynx Wildcat shrieks by and the T72 is toast.

Moore sorts himself out and attaches charges to the ICBM. Leaving the burning hulk of the T72 and the disabled ICBM we head for our extraction point. Behind us we seem to have stirred up a hornets nest. Moore and Smith takes out the two Sentries barring our way.

05 Extraction Point

Behind us appear RPG armed soldiers and an Infiltrator.
I fire at both forcing them to take cover. The Infiltrator puts another two rounds into Smith. He’s down and incapacitated.

Reinforcements are arriving a, GAZ 2975, a Security Detachment, Security Patrol, RPG, Infiltrator are all suppressed, aware that Smith is bleeding badly out and we are too close for 40mm grenade use, I take our chances and order our pick up.
Luckily Smiths wounds arn’t too bad and he’ll be back.