Mission #09: Heavy Command Cruiser

Mission Nine: Heavy Command Cruiser
The Dead Sea

The giant squadron of airborne fortresses, made up of the enormous aircraft carrier/cruise missile deployer/main battleship P-1112 Aigaion, two smaller ESM suppliers P-1113 Kottos and two escort/flak gunships P-1114 Gyges has been spotted, and an imminent attack on the squad is near, as the Aigaion's main weakness of losing its radar as its 32 engines are refueled by 6 KC-10s has happened right now, and it's also a good time to clean up the size of the Strigon squad while they return to this carrier.

The main targets for this mission are as follows:

Su-33 Strigon x9

Kottos Engine x6
Kottos Array x2
Kottos Cockpit (On hard difficulty or higher only)

Gyges Engine x6
Gyges AA Gun x6
Gyges SAM x2
Gyges Cockpit (On hard/higher only)

Aigaion AA Gun x8
Aigaion AAM x8
Aigaion Flak Gun x6
Aigaion Engine x32
Aigaion Cockpit
Aigaion Core (on hard/higher)

Named enemy: Su-33 Feniks (expert/higher)
(6)x KC-10's
Vehicle AA Guns onboard Aigaion (on hard/higher)

Once Garuda and other squads (Avalanche, Lanner, Windhover, etc.) begin attacking, Strigon are immediately thrown back in the air, and both of the Gyges' start waltzing around the Aigaion to protect it at all costs. When the player moves too far away from the squad, the Aigaion will launch Nimbus missiles to pick it off from long range. When the Aigaion's AA Guns and all the Strigons/Kottos'/Gyges' are toast, the Aigaion's engines then become the next target. When all engines are down, Aigaion will use desperate measures and will start firing Nimbus missiles no matter where the player is and will also release a barge of AAMs (Air2Air Missiles). As the cockpit/core are the only bits left needed to be destroyed, but are awkward to reach, Garuda 1 flew right through the inside of the Aigaion to finish it once and for all, leaving the remains of the behemoth whale fortress to plunge out of the sky in flames, with its left gigantic wing dropping off in the proccess. "Back to the sea you go...may you rest...in quiet slumber..."

Sources:

Ace Combat 6 (The game itself)
ACES Web