Haa! That reminds me of a war story.....
Many moons ago in the 80s I went as a UK MC to the Warrior Prep Center at Ramstein. (Nice museum at the time with all sorts of exhibits of aircraft, missiles etc).
During Day 1 of the exercise (scenario of an attack against the UK) they threw the entire enemy ORBAT at us across the Central Region with no attrition from the central region AD assets. Realistic, right?
We scrambled out fighters/tankers using the computer, put them on CAP and made a fair hand of the first couple of waves, but with a lot of losses. We could also divert the fighters to land at alternate airfields as their MOBs were taken out of action.
In an idle moment, however, and having read Red Storm Rising, I found I could also divert the USN Phoenix equipped F14s which, in the scenario, were covering the GIUK gap.
So, first thing on the morning of Day 2, before their distaff called Startex, I diverted them all to LU, and then launched them against the first wave and wiped it out.
The USAF running the exercise were not impressed.
