You’ve got to be kidding me!
A few weeks back, I hosted a co-op event for my extended flight simming family.
You guys know how I love to come up with semi-plausibld scenarios in history. The challenge was to pick a time and place for a conflict that would include as many as possible of the craft we fly, all on one side. The main constraints were the Hornet driver who likes JDAMs a lot, combined with the F-5 and the UH-1H or similar vintage (UH-1Y doesn’t count) Huey helicopter, and my dad who only flies the Viggen.
I ended up picking (of course) a war in the Arctic, near the Kola peninsula, using the Caucasus map as a stand-in. The scenario was Russia invading Finland, triggered by the Baltic states joining NATO. Finland not being in NATO yet, the main support comes from the other Nordic countries and the EU, which Finland joined in 1995, the same year they purchased the first Hornets.
IRL the Baltics joined NATO in 2002. Sweden retired their old UH-1s in 2001, Norway retired their F-5s in 2000 but Spain still flew them, Sweden flew the AJS-37 until 2005.
MiG-29s were transferred from the Luftwaffe to the Polish Air Force around this same time.
Finland flew Hornets, Fishbeds, and Mi-8s during this time. Easy to imagine a Czech, Polish or Hungarian Mi-24 joining an EU coalition. F-16s everywhere (Norway, Denmark, Netherlands), French Mirages (both, though we did not have F1 then) and Gazelle, same story.
And though none of the group flew them, I also threw in some Harrier IIs (could be UK GR.7s, or even Spanish or Italian AV-8Bs) and Dutch and English AH-64s.
The mission is probably way too small/easy for the kind of group we have here as it was made with a lower level of proficiency in mind but it could be fun to fly it together before everybody and their dog starts making better versions of this scenario on the proper map.
It is very simple but has something to do for everyone: troop transport, FEBA strike, interdiction, anti-ship, SEAD, escort, intercept (the trigger for this one may be a bit too specific)