A foreign born with heart of Pancasila is much better than a native born with the heart of the desert (e.g. Islamists).Barnabas Latuperissa, President of Indonesia (2036-2046)

Dwiwarna is Indonesian for "Bicolor" and a poetic name for the flag of Indonesia.

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"When we're going to deal with the 808?"

"As soon as the war ends."

"At least we have our man there, Aschberg." said the man with a Canadian flag on his shoulder.

"Unfortunately he has sent us a hint that he's in trouble as Wise is his CO now with the 11th Squadron. We know his weakness, but it seems he's reading our move as well."

"Damn.. Any other news?"

"The data are being analyzed, the drones with the backdoors so far."

"Good, We have to act fast as I believe the war will end pretty soon, either in 2044 or next year. And that's where we will make ourselves known to those politicians."

"Yes sir."

"Call me Brother.. we're ushering the new world and so, let's dispense with the hierarchy.."

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On the second day of my fourth cruise so far, we already have fifteen people tossed into the brig. I remember when I passed a hallway on the lower deck I saw three officers got hauled by the MP and Marines to the brig, which I then learned that those three officers, one of them a Major, were caught having anti-semitic tattoos on their bodies. We also learned from the daily briefings that the most recent surprise inspection yielded more evidence of mostly Islamist style antisemitic propaganda inside the ship, using what people called the "Truth to 9/11" or what nowadays in Indonesia as "Truth to the Civil War".

For example in one of the officer's room, the inspectors seized a poster with the following word

"Who's responsible for the Civil War? Israel!"

Several social media posts from convicted enlisted ranks and officers from all services but especially the Navy were also screen-shotted and showed to us officers.

"From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free." We were explained that such battle cry was long associated with Islamist Palestinian groups like Hamas, and to make things worse, it was used as a battle cry by the UCC in their invasion to Israel in 2041.

While I can tolerate those who were advocating a co-existence of an Israel state and an Arab Palestinian state, a stance shared by significant number of Indonesian Christians, some posts are just plain old tired repeat of tropes such as "Mossad /USA created ISIS/911/Boko Haram and many more jihadists groups." or referring the Jews as "monkeys and apes", in which most of us know that the UCC is more deserving such label. Another question is not if, but when those so-called GRM make their move in some sort of large scale mutiny. Furthermore, news back in the homefront saw an intensification of pro-sharia rallies which were returned in kind by our comrades in brown.

"And if we should beat them up every day from generation to generation so be it," said the Navy Chief of Staff to us one day. "For the sake of keeping our place in world civilization."

There were always those who want to change our ideology anyway.

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The idea of an attack hadn't seemed possible earlier in the day. The sun was out for most of the day, and the weather was pretty much perfect and a good enemy will mostly attack at night nowadays. It was a relatively uneventful day on the carrier, safe for CAP and some raids, but the 112 was not scheduled for sortie that day, so we entertained ourselves with what few things we had on board.

Me, Ronny, and two new-faces that I just know as I make myself home in the squadron; 1st Lt. Amadea "Two Pair" Handono and Captain Satya "Scepter" Wicaksana, the latter served in the 105 before went to join the Sea Knights, held a few rounds of cangkulan, a traditional card game, inside the ready room.

"Yeah, your turn!"

We laughed as we carry on with the game.

Meanwhile, Snow is observing us as he sat alone reading a romance novel.

"Come on, Snow! Lighten up a little!" said Ronny.

"Thanks for that, but I just want to be with myself here for now. Besides I'm not reading this again since the war."

"I see, well, have fun, Snow," Ronny replied at the major.

Several minutes passed and just as we are going to finish the second round, the telltale whistle blared across the ship.

"General quarters, general quarters! All hands man battle stations! Pilots, to the ready room ready for launch!"

And we know what it means.

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Not long I am airborne.

"This is Lemper (1), our time is short so listen up." said our AWACS. "Our CAP had stumbled into a large formation of drones launched from cargo ships and got mauled. Intel had confirmed that the UCC is committing what was left of their large drone-carrying cargo ships along with a couple of manned assets supported by few tankers they still possess for an attack on our main floating bases in the region, Pandawa, Dewey, as well as Diego Garcia, while I doubt the latter would even be feasible thanks to their strategic bomber force was all but destroyed."

"Furthermore we've lost some of our patrolling surface vessels, submarines, and UUVs. We can confirm that three of the confirmed losses so far are our own, KRI Cakra (SS-401), KRI Tjumandani (SS-409), and KRI Teuku Umar (FFL-355). 30% of Coalition UCAVs in the area were also lost or disabled. Your order is simple, down them all. Vector has been sent to your craft. You know what to do up there. Godspeed."

"Copy that Lemper. We're on our way." I said, myself being the mission leader for today. My first.

Our radars growled as it tracked the familiar fast-moving formations. We caught them before they were even close to our escort's SAM range.

"They're way overhead," My wingman Riyan "Pelatuk" (2) Ritonga pointed out. I could just picture a crooked smile on his face as he drawled, "Let's go introduce ourselves..." The drones, previously flying in a loose formation, suddenly broke apart.

"Watch out for the support aircraft!" I warned.

Pelatuk worked with one of the drones that had drifted furthest from the others ostentatiously for an ambush while I switched to my Buzzards and in the safe distance fired it. Then I charged with the PLS activated, two more drones disappeared thanks to the AIM-122 salvo.

"103, Fox three"

"104, Slash, slash, slash"

My element executed a flanking attack maneuver and thanks to the help of our AI, the drones' own were outwitted resulted in four more craft destroyed after two minutes of dance.

"First wave of drones have been eliminated. But stay sharp... we detected the second wave already" commented AWACS Lemper. "Destroy the target!"

I got a lock with a new drone and after a minute I took down it with the AIM-10. "Target down, looking good, Sea Knight 101!"

Pelatuk immediately came into view with two more drones and with the pulse laser cannon armed, he rolled and turned left towards them.

"102 here, target's in range, opening fire."

"You can do it, 102," I told him. And soon I detected him obtain a good solution and the pulsed beam were doing its mojo.

"Excellent job, Pelatuk, good usage of the laser cannon, but keep your heads up!"

"Roger, sir, slash! Target destroyed."

"Enemy drone destroyed, good job Sea Knight 102." Lemper was starting to sound more and more cheerful as the mission progressed.

"Lemper, this is Sea Knight 101, over. Tally four bandits." I said as I and Pelatuk shed our altitude where the fast-moving drones were within visual range.

"Copy that" replied Lemper. "More drones incoming, destroy it. Also, I've gotten an update that our surface vessels and submarines have begun taking out the UCC floating mothership as I speak."

"Well, what're we waiting for? Let's go get those sons of bitches!" Riyan called out, perhaps he's a little too excited to get in a 'fight' again. Especially with the UCAVs.

"Maintain your element with me, Pelatuk, don't break off until I said so!" He eased back on the throttle to allow me to catch up as we head straight into the oncoming drones. Even with the super maneuverable sixth-generation fighters capable of high-G turns with the corresponding life-support system to compensate and weaponry capable to keep up with drones, it's still a struggle of its own to down it.

I locked on one but turned quickly in high-G so I was tilted to the side and aimed ahead of the drone with the AI in the cockpit fine-tuned things.

"Slash" One drone fell into the ocean below.

"Lemper to Sea Knights, alert 5 has been launched, repeat, alert 5 has been launched to cover the USS Dewey sector. The battle out there is particularly bloody. We have Tanduk flight now on standby ready for launch at any time..." then someone interrupted the transmission.

"Lemper, come in!"

"Who are they?" I asked.

"This is Shuriken flight from 601 Hikotai (601 Squadron), JNS Shoukaku. We're heading to your position to reinforce you now."

"About time.. as we detected eight more drones!" warned AWACS Lemper.

"Oh, come on.." I can hear Pelatuk moaned on the comm.

"Count your blessings, Pelatuk. We got reinforcements, now stay with me and you will make it." I replied.

"Yes sir."

Pelatuk and I flew close to one another, while Scepter and Two Pair flew close by before breaking right after they caught two drones heading at them from above. Together I and Pelatuk chased the same drone. Simultaneously getting a lock and firing our own Diamondbacks, we both took it down. "Another one. Hell yeah." Pelatuk could practically see the smile on my face.

"Shuriken flight, listen up, let's not let our Indonesian friends get all the glory, am I right?" asked the Japanese leader to his wingmen as they entered the AO. A couple of confident 'no's and 'this one's mine!' sounded off in response as the two naval squadrons connected their datalinks and began a friendly competition to get the last of the drones out of the sky. While the Japanese with their sixth generation carrier version of F-6 Hayate II, the F-6C Shiden IIs immediately activated their lasers and obtained a good number of kill against the almost never-ending swarm, we were getting the most of them.

"Let's keep this up!" the excited Scepter hollered.

"103, you're too close!" Two Pair warned.

"Oh, I'll be.. dang!" Then another report from Scepter. "The drone's cannon got my wing!" Sea Knight 103 was then hit by one PL-13 from another drone.

"Scepter, eject!" called his wingman.

"103, can you hear me?" I asked. "103, This is a direct order, bail out!"

"Yes, sir... This plane is tough, but sadly this is her time to rest. Scepter, bailing out."

"Sea Knight lead to Lemper... I got one pilot bailing out, requesting immediate evac." I reported.

Meanwhile "Kuso.. just got data from Sea Knight 102 that two drones are heading for the downed pilot. Shuriken 222, follow me, on my mark fire the laser cannon, we must keep the drones off his back!" said the Shuriken leader, Lt. Commander Tetsuo Kawaguchi.

"Roger," said his wingman, Lt. Robert Mimasaka. The Japanese Navy F-6s lit their afterburners, went straight into the approaching drone.

"Slash"

As Scepter is dangling with his parachute, a flash of blue light almost blinded him, and then orange. Soon two burning drones passed beside him, and he realized what was his fate to be if whoever splashed the drone didn't show up.

Three more drones left.

I maneuvered carefully after one of the drones that had strayed away from its companion and into the clouds. Another lock, another salvo of Diamondback. It missed, as the drone darted out from the clouds.

I kept up behind it, switching to conventional 25mm, and got a firing solution. I pressed the trigger and the UCAV exploded. "Two to go," Lemper informed them.

"Let's get through this without any more casualties." The last drone was being pursued by a pair of Shidens and Two Pair, while I and Pelatuk were almost on top of it, in gun range while the last drone was taken care of by the other Japanese pair, done covering Scepter, who safely landed on the ocean. Back on the drone I kept within range and scored a couple of hits, slowing it down, but it went downward into Two Pair's plane. She fired a Diamondback and put it out of commission.

"Nice kill, Two Pair!" No word but praise from me to her. "Enemy aircraft confirmed down."

"Incoming manned fighters.. bearing 180.. those bastards are flying in a straight line; confirmed as Typhoons and JF-20s.."

We still got ordnance and reformed our position, along with the Japanese.

"Careful.. they can still hurt you bad!"

"Hai.." (yes) replied one of the Japanese. Pretty soon they got a good solution as well as us at the same time, Only a microsecond worth of lag.

AAM-4 and AIM-122 went out from our bay, streaked directly into the oncoming Chukars, who finally managed to lock us for radar missile. The lock broken, for obvious reasons.

Another textbook BVR combat, with six crafts went down. Before we could close in with the Japanese;

"Relief flight are in the operations area. Sky Knights.." said AWACS Lemper. "Return to the carrier"

"How about the rescue?"

"On its way with the relief flight is also plotted to cover it, Sea Knight 101. His beacon's active and they will arrive soon. He'll be back on board in no time. I repeat, return to the carrier." There was no room left for discussion, and silence fell among them all as we made their way back to the carrier.

Any other discussion was to be held on deck, and at the debriefing, we were told that no drones made into the inner defense perimeter of our floating bases, but with a significant human cost of up to thirty fighters were lost, including five of ours, one from my flight, three from the earlier CAP of the 118 NAS and one IF-37 from the Tridents. Two American ESDs were damaged and two more sunk with associated casualties, five submarines and four surface vessels were lost as well.

Our losses are replaceable, but their offensive drone capability was broken for good...

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And so this chapter is done! What do you think of the action?

(1). An Indonesian savory snack made of glutinous rice (beras ketan) filled with seasoned shredded chicken, fish, or abon (meat floss), The meat filling is rolled inside the rice, in a fashion similar to an egg roll; this is in turn rolled and wrapped inside a banana leaf, oil paper or plastic sheet to make a packet ready for serving. If banana leaf is not available, corn husk can be used.

(2). While pelatuk is an Indonesian translation for woodpeckers, a type of bird, but this Pelatuk which is the callsign of Yoel's wingman here refers to firearms' trigger.