Beast Squadron



The USEA Unified Air Force 13th Air Force 8th Fighter Wing 5th Squadron "Beast", is an elite fighter squadron featured in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy. Comprised by some of USEA's most vicious and aggresive pilots, this unit was feared by USEA's Allied Forces when they joined the Rebel forces. Known for encircling their opponents in the aircraft equivalent of a mauling and their fierce loyalty to Andrei Brynner, they are reminiscent to the Belkan aces who flew the Round Table.

They are encountered in Mission 06: Hunting Season in 5 F/A-18E Super Hornets and in Mission 17: Toy Box (You get this mission by joining Operation Alphaville) after the shuttle is destroyed flying at first 4 F-15S/MTD's with 4 additional F-15's and 2 F-18E's joining in later on.

History
Nothing much is known about Beast Squadron, however, there are things that can be inferred about this unit of USEA by their lead pilot Andrei Brynner. Although he stated he is from a small nation called Gratobie, there are rumors circulating that he is in fact a former Knight of the Round Table and truly comes from the Principality of Belka. If this is indeed true, then their vicious nature in combat could be implied to have originated in the mastery of aerial combat the Belkan's were renowned for.

Mission 06: Hunting Season
Beast 1 Sergei Brynner: "Listen up. You’re free to engage once we reach the rendezvous point."

Beast Sq. Pilot: "So, business as usual?"

Beast 1 Sergei Brynner: (Laughs sinisterly) "Give em’ hell! They’ll be nothing but burning scrapheaps by the time we’re done with them! ‘Cause that’s how Beast Squadron does it!"

–Communications between Beast 1 and his wingmen before their first encounter with Phoenix and Scarface 2 In Mission 06: Hunting Season, Allied Command is informed that in retaliation for the Destruction of their Fortress "Tin Castle" and their Oil Rig Fortress "Opera House", The Rebel Forces plan to invade the area's regained by the Allied Forces. To prevent this, Scarface Squadron is dispatched to intercept them at Payton Channel. Before the briefing was over however, they were warned that an Ace Squadron might be accompanying this unit.

After defeating the rather light invasion force of fighters, Allied Command's warning proves true with the arrival of Beast Squadron. From almost nowhere, the 5 Plane squadron moves in and encircles Scarface 1 "Phoenix" and Scarface 2 in what can be called a mauling. However, their pride and arrogance gets the better of them when Phoenix tricks each pilot of the squadron one by one to face him alone by fleeing their encirclement. Soon enough, the entire squadron falls apart by this fatal flaw and are shot down. Andrei Brynner however warns as his plane is sent crashing down that he'll return to settle the score.

Mission 17: Toy Box
In Mission 17: Toy Box, the rebels plan to launch from Comona Island a high powered satellite Laser that was originally designed to "Intercept Asteroids believed to be on a collision course with Earth", but was designed to also function as a Military weapon that can snipe land targets. Due to the nature of this weapon, it was critical that it was destroyed... but it was learned that it was separated into four (in truth 5) parts and hidden in silos on the Comona Islands. After destroying the 4 silo's, the 5th was found already on a shuttle and was prepared to be sent into space anyway, however Scarface 1 managed to destroy the shuttle and prevented this.

Unexpectedly, reinforcements arrived after the shuttle was destroyed. Beast Squadron, who had all survived their bout with Phoenix, returned to make true on their words and avenge their prior loss. Learning from their previous defeat, they modified their strategy by using 2 flights of their squadron, one flight to actively engage Phoenix and Scarface 2, the other to provide radar jamming to tip the fight into Beast Squadron's favor. However, seeing through this, Scarface 1 managed to find the F-18E's that were providing the interference and sealed the fate of Beast Squadron as well by sending them all plumiting to the Earth.