639th Combined Air Operations Center
The 639th is where DCS World squadrons meet to plan larger campaigns together. We provide the standards, processes and tools. Your squadron keeps its own people, schedule and procedures.
The 639th is an invite-only coalition of independent DCS squadrons. It doesn't plan campaigns itself. It gives squadrons a common way to plan them together, so every member group gets a bigger, better organized fight than it could run on its own.
Your strike flight gets real escorts, SEAD and CAP from other squadrons, all flying the same war. Squadrons plan multi-squadron packages together and brief them together, so a four-ship on a Saturday night is part of something much bigger.
Squadrons pool what they have: tankers, AWACS, ground controllers, servers and mods. A shared ledger shows what each squadron can offer and what others need, so nobody has to field everything themselves.
The 639th's standards only cover what crosses squadron lines. Your roster, training nights, SOPs and your own campaigns stay exactly as they are. Nothing is binding on your group unless your own liaison agrees to it, and you can sit out any campaign without leaving.
The 639th sets the standards: common formats for the tasking order, airspace order and comm plan, shared terms, and tools that draft them. A volunteer can claim a tasking without ever reading the charter.
Member squadrons write each combined campaign around a single fictional theater: one enemy, one map, one story. Every squadron flying it is fighting the same war.
Each squadron sends one liaison officer to the AOC Board. The coordinating seats rotate between member squadrons every campaign, so no single squadron runs the coalition.
Comm plans, timelines and the full tasking order reach every participating squadron ahead of the event, not on the night.
Squadrons post what their part of the campaign needs, and other squadrons claim it. Requests reach your own Discord as lines on the air tasking order, only for airframes you fly. Try one: this is what your liaison sees.
Any member squadron can ask for help with its part of the campaign: an escort, a tanker, a SEAD flight. The request is checked against the campaign's goals and written up as an ATO line.
The line lands in the Discord channel of every squadron that flies the airframe it needs, with a Buy or Pass prompt.
First Buy wins, and you have 15 minutes to back out of a mistaken claim. Lines nobody claims go to the AOC Board to assign or drop.
Your squadron builds the mission its own way. Before the event, the full ATO, airspace order and comm plan go out to every participating squadron.
Package 07-B, requested by a partner squadron
You passed. The line stays open for other F-16C squadrons. If nobody claims it, the AOC Board assigns it or drops it.
Claimed by your squadron. You can withdraw for 15:00.
Confirmed and locked to your squadron. Your planners build it your way.
Published. The full ATO, comm plan and airspace order went out to every participating squadron.
Membership is by invitation, chosen by the squadrons already flying with us. Sign in with Discord to tell us about your group, and someone from the AOC Board will reach out to your leadership.
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