The game takes place in the late 1980s and early 1990s and features three distinct sets of missions: Red Flag (USAF) training exercises at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, a fictional series of missions during the First Gulf War, and a special mission which reenacts the plot of the novel Flight of the Old Dog.

The highest rank that can be achieved in the game is brigadier general (35 missions).

If the player completes the special mission known as Flight of the Old Dog, they are immediately promoted to brigadier general.

The packaging illustration was done for Three Sixty Pacific by Bay area illustrator Marc Ericksen, who had previously created cover art on four battle sets of the V for Victory series, as well as their release of Das Boot.

[3] A survey that year of wargames with modern settings gave the game four and a half stars out of five.