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Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal

Shin Kazama
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Shin Kazama, a mercenary pilot flying for the Kingdom of Asran in the Middle East
Tank-busting
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Shin earns some cash shooting enemy tanks
Shin
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Shin watches the tanks burn
Shin's F-8E Crusader
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Shin's F-8E Crusader, a US Navy fighter first flown in 1961.
Shin
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Shin
Greg's Skyhawk
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Greg's A-4 Skyhawk is on fire
Put that fire out!
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Greg tears off his oxygen mask
Rocky
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Reporter Goh "Rocky" Mutsugi talks to Shin. Shin must have an old calender, April 1980 didn't have a Friday the thirteenth...
Saki
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Lt. Col. Saki Vashutal, Royal Asran Airforce. Commander of the Area 88 mercenaries.
McCoy
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McCoy, Area 88's scrounger
Mick
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Mick Simon, mercenary pilot
Lightning
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British Aerospace Lightning interceptors. Unusual aircraft with two over/under engines and overwing pylons.
Ryoko
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Ryoko Tsugumo
Boris
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Boris, mercenary pilot
F-100D Super Saber
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Ground crew loads Mick's F-100D Super Sabre. The "Hun" was retired from the US Air Force in 1972 and the Air National Guard in 1979.
Suicide mission
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Suicide night mission. Three F-5 fighters lead, followed by Shin and Boris in Crusaders, Mick's Hun, three Skyhawks, and three Israeli IAI Kfirs.
Bucksy
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Sunrise. Bucksy waits for his friends to return.
Shin
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Shin. You can tell he's the hero (and a great pilot) by the hair hanging down over his eye...
Kanzaki
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Satoru Kanzaki, Shin's ambitious "friend"
Shin's desperate dogfight
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Three more kills and Shin can buy his freedom
Shin
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From the closing credits: Shin and three MiG-21 fighters.