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As the aircraft started on their journey, three large enemy aircraft turned up. I sent nine fighters to intercept them, but lost contact before I could intercept. Halfway into the journey, three more aircraft turned up heading for my strike group. I pulled off Tornadoes to intercept them, but it was a tad late as a massive missile salvo started heading my way. Nine of my own aircraft were shot down and a 10th, hugging the weeds, went in for a full blown snog and crashed. The attackers managed to get into Sidewinder range and turned out to MiG-31s, fast and heavily armed interceptors. I swiftly bagged them and then got two naval Flankers for the loss of one F-15. The stand-off attack started with HARMs and continued with Mavericks. I think I tried to go in with LGBs, but the loss of an F-5 and a Tornado GR.4 convinced me that it was time to head for home. 18 of 30 aircraft did not make it back - the last losses being 4 F-5s that ran out of fuel; something that the game should warn you about a bit better. As they were returning, four fighters were spotted off the coast. I sent my own fighters to intercept and they did surprisingly badly. Like five four aircraft being lost for no kills. I was going to need more jets to deal with these people.