After being ordered to stand at ease by his Ariella, Excalibur one, he'd just realized that the way of the EU was far different than that of the Soviet, Russian. Never the less he rushed to his Albino MiG-25 and, as quickly as before, blitzed up the stairs and into the cockpit, reviewing everything as he ran around his aircraft to reach the staircase. Once he landed in his seat he slowly went over the checklist, the checklist is the most important thing a pilot can do, no malfunctions were allowed now, not in the machine, not in the people riding and controlling these monsters of war. He finished just in time with his pair, leading him to fire up the engines, and slowly tax up behind her, following her until he came onto the runway, where he rolled up behind her and turned on the breaks of the landing gear, stopping straight besides Excalibur 5.
Radioing to the radiotower, as well as his own team. ''Excalibur 6 taking off.'' He spoke in his rather broken english, Russian accent. Once he felt the landing gears lifting off the ground he found himself in a stable, but slow climb towrads the assigned climbing height, he followed Excalibur 5 until the time to form up in formation came upon him. He slowly glided into formation whilst still firing up and reaching the designated altitude. Soon they reached their designated altitude and spoke up over the squadron wide coms. ''Excalibur 6 at angels 10 and leveling.'' Soon he'd been breached by designation Overwatch, it was alerting, the bombers had seemingly already launched some of their cargo and the situation seemed grim and rightly so. After having been breached, and well into their cruise Excalibur One gave everyone their designations, just like Vladimir would've thought, Himself and Excalibur 5 would be assigned Cruise Missile duty, hunting it down and finishing it off would be crucial, and this was yet another time that he would hate the fact that he didn't have the manuverability of a greater generation aircraft, or the incredible speed of his MiG-99, it was nothing he was allowed to speak of publicly, but mind reading wasn't existant, yet.
''Solid copy Excalibur One, Excalibur 6 banking left to engage pursuit of cruise missile.'' According to the information he'd been given and moved accordingly, the time it'd take for him to drop to low height from his angels 10 cruise it'd take some time, not only to drop but also turn around accordingly. He'd have to begin already now in order to come into a good pursuit position. ''Excalibur 5, this is Excalibur 6. I take the primary mssile, you deal with the secondary. Deal, over.'' Vladimir was scanning the area, most certainly the ground which was slowly approaching him, he'd slowed down and decided to take on an elliptical turn which would take him into a pursuit run.The cruise missile had been visible on the radar for a fair while and was approaching Vladimir's wished position.
Now, he'd finished the turn and was now going into a slow dive, accelerating his speed immensly, thanks to the upgrades he wouldn't have to worry about any malfunctions in the engines and even accelerated further. He was starting to approach firing range, ''Praise Russia...'' He said to himself as he started to see the the cruise missile with his own two eyes, he glanced over towards Excalibur 5, more inorder to update himself on the status of his fly-mate, than anything else.