Farid waited for a while for the hostile fighters to close in, not firing his missiles at maximum range due to their low probability of kill at such ranges. Once the hostile fighters reached half that effective range, Farid used the helmet-mounted display of his F-20 to lock on a Flanker and fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM as soon as he gained a lock. "Fox Three," he said over the radio. He then did the same thing on another Flanker as soon as the first missile was fired, and said the exact same words on the radio. Rising up his aircraft after firing the two AMRAAMs, it took a while for Farid to notice a parachute coming out from the trajectory of the first Flanker which now turned into debris, indicating that it was shot down. "Eleven, splash one Flanker," he said in a flat intonation.
The second Flanker, however, did not follow the same fate. The pilot managed to execute evasive maneuvers once his comrades were locked on one after another and then fell out of the skies. Said Flanker got behind Farid's F-20 while he was attempting to get a lock on a Fulcrum that wasn't locked on during the first barrage of the Excalibur squadron. The moment Farid knew the second Flanker wasn't down was when it launched a missile at him, which rang the alarm at his cockpit. Deploying flares while making a rapid descent, Farid managed to break the missile lock, although the missile exploded just not close enough to do any damage.
Although his aircraft stayed untouched, Farid knew full well that this was not the end of all troubles. That Flanker was still in a position with a decent chance to gain another missile lock and, as Farid looked to his left, a MiG-29, different from the one he previously attempted to gain a lock on, was flying toward him. "Dammit. Bandits engaging me two-on-one," he said over the radio as he began a sequence of maneuvers.