AAR from the Cobra squad:
By the time the cobra spawned in 20 minutes into the round, the enemy had already established a strong forward outpost in the alleyway between 8th & 9th street, as well as a firebase near the Mosque. 2 AA sites were relayed to our squad leader, forcing us to remain hidden in the north west hills around Alpha 3. We saw relatively little enemy contact in the vicinity of the Docks flag, aside from a single Vodnik that had snuck along the western road heading for the Dock flag. My gunner fired 2 missles in short succession quickly dispatching the threat. We then resorted to long-range shelling of the enemy firebase with the coordination of our squad leader positioned on the hotel roof. He placed move markers 800+ meters away and we fired blindly on the targets, clearing the rooftops for a forthcoming CAS strike. We got a laser designation called in on the first of 2 AA sites on a rooftop east of the firebase and were able to safely eliminate the threat as he was distracted while he targeted a littlebird over the eastern waters. Our first real CAS strike was called in, and we flew in low from the west, directly down 8th Street, firing on our assigned attack marker, blasting a building, somehow missing one MEC soldier armed with a LAT who was able to hit us moving full speed down the street! Mistake in judgement on our part, great shot on his part, costing us our helo for the next 20 minutes. We had a total of 17 kills by this point.

The second cobra that we took out was used much more conservatively. We stationed in the north west (A3) grid for a good 15 minutes providing long range cover from the west, but the enemy figured this out and was staying well hidden on the eastern side of many rooftops, including the mosque flag that was being highly contested by both sides. We coordinated 3 CAS strikes on the mosque flag from the west, after first hearing of a AA site being dispatched by a sniper on our squad covering the rooftops. With cleared AA, we hammered the mosque flag with the assistance of a spec ops member in a different squad calling in a laser designation on the eastern half of the rooftop. We began firing from about 1000m away using a move marker, and at 750m away the laser target appeared, allowing my gunner to fire off 5 quick hellfire missles onto the rooftop. I flew low enough over the mosque that I was able to see the remains of at least 3 dead MEC troops. With flares deployed we returned to base to re-arm, repeating 2 more successful air strikes on the mosque flag until our ground troops were able to move in and secure the area.

Late in the game, we were able to sneak farther down the west side of the map, hovering around Alpha 8 (Residential Lane). We provided more long range gunfire on several hot rooftops, and had 2 exciting encounters. The first involved an enemy APC that was spotted roaming freely in the city. We struggled to get a clear shot on it, and sadly missed one brief window when it stopped in the middle of a large intersection firing at 2 of our humvees. Our gunner was engaging a suspected shoulder AA kit, and during this exchange both of our humvees were eliminated. The same enemy APC later engaged one of our APC's, and my gunner fired a missile that grazed the back end of the apc but did not destroy it. Just at this exact moment, our friendly APC drove into view, and also caught our missile's explosion. Both vehicles were heavily damaged! A great exchange between the flaming armored vehicles ensued, and finally ended with the both APC's exploding, and my gunner getting both the 2 kills & the teamkills! The second notable moment came out of the corner of my eye when I spotted a full CO truck sneaking along the western most road. My gunner quickly reacted to my shout: "enemy CO truck, hard right! 300m!" and peppered 3 seconds of rounds into it. Dead bodies poured out of the back, and the truck nearly flipped making a hard right turn just as my gunner switched to missiles and sent 2 hellfires just over its rear. We could not confirm the kill on the truck.
Round ended with 35 kills and a shout out from the MEC team saying "good job to your cobra squad."