Air-to-air missions

Air missions focus on protecting friendly aircraft from bandits or forcing enemy aircraft into engagements so they can be decisively engaged and destroyed.

Learning objectives

1. Understand the escort and close escort missions
2. Understand combat air patrols (CAP), including barrier CAP (BARCAP), targeted CAP (TARCAP) and high asset value CAP (HAVCAP)
3. Understand sweeps
4. Understand defensive counter air (DCA) missions

Prerequisites

1. Air-to-air weapons
2. Air-to-air basic tactics