[quote=@AvaP] That takes me back. But you can't beat the pure early 2000s alt-rock vibes of the main trailer [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBWnGUimRBw&ab_channel=IGN[/youtube] Man, I miss this game. [/quote] T-62 chan thinks she can fly [img]https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/hRjwo95KtToFAlJxR7Cwvxz2-DTFAM8gSNGWnytwJTc/https/images.freemanga.me/manga3/armored-highschool/chapter-5-4koma-collection/17922_chapter-5-4koma-collection_4.jpg[/img] Also, reading through the after-action reports of Koh-Tang... very much an assault on Ellis Island vibe as it was the USMC just spamming Jolly-Greens into a hot LZ and even had an AC-130 show up and drop a daisy-cutter. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Eastern_LZ_Koh_Tang.jpg[/img] [quote]Eastern LZ at Koh Tang with 2 downed CH-53s visible, at left is Knife 23 at right is Knife 31. which was hit by an RPG round fired from the tree line at middle right. Cambodian Swift boat, upper right, was knocked out by Air Force A-7s. Knife 31 was hit by two RPGs, which ignited its left fuel tank and ripped away the nose of the helicopter. It crashed in a fireball fifty meters offshore. The copilot, five Marines, and two Navy corpsmen were killed in the crash, another Marine drowned swimming from the wreck and three Marines were killed by gunfire trying to reach the beach. A tenth Marine died of his wounds while clinging to the burning wreckage. The surviving ten Marines and three Air Force crewmen were forced to swim for two hours before being picked up by the gig of the arriving Henry B. Wilson. Among the Marine survivors was the battalion's Forward Air Controller, who [i]used an Air Force survival radio while swimming to direct A-7 air strikes[/i] against the island until the battery failed. [i]The second CH-53, Knife 23, was hit by an RPG which blew off the tail section[/i] and crash-landed on the East Beach but it offloaded its 20 Marines and crew of five. They set up a defensive perimeter and [i]the Knife 23 co-pilot used his survival radio to call in airstrikes[/i] but they were cut off from reinforcements and rescue for twelve hours Knife 21, landed safely, but while offloading its Marines came under heavy automatic weapons fire, destroying an engine. It managed to take off, protected by suppressive fire from the second CH-53, Knife 22, and ditched 1.6 km offshore. Knife 22 was damaged so severely that it turned back with its Marines (including the G Company commander) still aboard escorted by Jolly Green 11 and Jolly Green 12, and crash-landed in Trat Province on the Thai coast, where its passengers were picked up by Jolly Green 12 and returned to U-Tapao. Knife 32 was inbound to the East Beach when it was hit by an RPG and aborted its landing, instead heading out over the West Beach to the Knife 21 crash site where it dumped fuel and proceeded to rescue the three Knife 21 crewmen[/quote] [quote]Of the eight helicopters assaulting Koh Tang, three had been destroyed (Knife 21, Knife 23 and Knife 31) and four others were damaged too severely to continue operations (Knife 22, Knife 32, Jolly Green 41 and Jolly Green 42). Of the helicopters used in the recapture of Mayaguez, Jolly Green 13 had been severely damaged in the East Beach rescue attempt. [b]This left only three helicopters (all HH-53s – Jolly Greens 11, 12 and 43) of the original eleven[/b] available to bring in the follow-up forces of BLT 2/9, so the 2 CH-53s (Knife 51 and 52) whose mission had been search and rescue – the last available helicopters – were reassigned to carry troops[/quote] For perspective, a CH-53 is a big plane, it'd be like Russia spamming Mil Mi-26s in combat operations.