User blog comment:Hellsverg/Heavy command cruiser/@comment-1824272-20131102174903

The plot of Air Combat is very... empty. Over the years, lots of fanon has been created to explain who, what, when, where, why, and how about the plot of Air Combat. To this date, however, there is no concrete evidence of anything of that plot. We don't know which country it took place on. We don't know the lead pilot we took control of. We don't know the nationality of anyone in that game. The only thing we know is that a terrorist attack happened and we stopped them.

I can tell you that there is no proof of Air Combat taking place in Kaluga. People thought that Kaluga was the country because of a Strangereal news article published on one of the official Ace Combat Zero websites, which talks about Dominic Zubov and his role in the Tyumen Dispute and the Blood War, the former of which happened in Kaluga and the latter in Romny. Both Kaluga and Romny have been claimed to be the country/ies of Air Combat, but neither has been confirmed.

As far as I can tell, Air Combat is not referenced in the canon of any other Ace Combat material, similar to Ace Combat: Northern Wings. We currently treat Northern Wings as non-canon (as in, it didn't happen). I'm not sure if we should start doing that for Air Combat.

So... yeah.