The narrator continues that a sizable force of Erusean veterans has risen up to start another war, and that Mobius 1's job is to take them out. The operation narrator states outright that Mobius 1 has a higher kill ratio than an entire squadron. This can be very essential to certain achievement runs (such as guns-only Campaigns or those where you have to fly only one of the three plane types) and especially when it comes to taking down Strigons. Note as a contrast that while the notoriety of Wardog Squadron in 5 is for the whole flight group, there's only one Demon Lord of the Round Table in Zero. That said, a grand majority of the property damage in the game is caused by the player.
This isn't entirely true in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War or Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, where your wingmen will occasionally shoot down enemy planes and destroy ground targets.Ace Combat is the best example of this trope as allied pilots are nothing more than moving distractions but the player massacres an entire country's air force (and in some games, army and navy, too).
