The Phantom Natasha had been chasing had been a more tough chase than usual. As the other members of her squadron successfully fired off their missiles quickly against the fighters they were chasing, Natasha had had to loop around the Phantom pilot a number of times, expecting less resistance from an F-4. She eventually drew a good bead on the twin-seat aircraft, but before she could fire the AWACS came on the radio and indicated that eight bombers were approaching the city. She still had a lock on the Phantom and quickly fired off two SDMs at it. "Yellow, Fox Two," she called as she peeled out and engaged her afterburner barely after the missiles had left the aircraft. "Angel, move to engage the bombers," she called out to her number two. Flying full speed at the incoming bombers, she stayed well below them until she was behind them, and initiated an Immelmann turn to get in attacking position behind the bombers. The eight bombers were spread out, with the four Tu-95s grouped and the four Tu-22Ms grouped. Noticing the bandit high above speeding away from her and the bombers, she wondered why the bombers were completely undefended save for their own defensive turrets. She moved to attack the four Tu-95s to her left, taking care to stay out of range of the bombers' tail-mounted 23mm cannons. Switching to her two long-range R-27Ts, she was now in firing position. Locking on to the leftmost bomber, she fired, calling out "Yellow, Fox Two" as the missile left its place on the fuselage. Adjusting slightly to lock on to the next bomber in the group, she fired again, with a "Yellow, Fox Two". Now out of her long-range missiles, she would have to get closer to attack the rest of the bombers.