Mission 13 - Behind Enemy Lines

Mission 13 - Behind Enemy Lines

Captain Dmitri Sokov
Callsign: Medved 612
Aircraft: SU-27 Fulcrum
Weapon loadout: HSM, Rocket Pod, ECM Pod (5), Flares (5)

This is an air-to-air escort mission so you'll be fighting your way out of the enemy territory. Engage the first wave and destroy the fighters that you can. After a few minutes, enemy stealth fighters will appear and attack the cargo planes. Activate your ECM pod and keep close proximity to the cargo planes to prevent them from being targeted.

Keep the cargo planes in your jammer range and engage targets. Thankfully, your allies are reliable enough to destroy the enemies, especially the pesky SU-47s. After clearing the wave of fighters, you'll learn that allies have captured ground AA batteries. Lure enemies to these "killzones" to make the battle easier for you. Take care of a few more waves of enemy fighters to end this phase.

Behind Enemy Lines

For the third phase, you need to defend the crashed cargo plane from incoming enemy ground forces. Put your rocket pods to work and make sure to target middle of the enemy formation to get rid of multiple targets at once. You have very limited RP ammo so make sure don't go all the way wasting it. Make sure to save at least 6 of them since you'll need it to destroy the last objective. Keep destroying enemies as you can. Finally, after being almost overwhelmed, you'll get the order to destroy the dam. Shoot all your remaining rockets to destroy the dam and complete the mission.

Note: If you are after grinding exp, this is another great spot to farm for experience. During the last checkpoint, where Dachev says that they're completely surrounded, a long line of enemy ground units will appear. Destroying them will usually yield 180 to 210 experience per group; if you managed to destroy them all, you'll earn you 2000 experience. After using all your ammo, just crash yourself or reload the checkpoint and repeat the process. This is the fastest way to grind for exp though you can't use this mission to master other planes since it doesn't have a custom setting option when replaying it. Thus, only the story mission loadout of the SU-27 can be used. You may want to try this trick using Recruit (Easy)difficulty so you can have more ammo.

Experience: Farming Method