Sea Snake (Part 4 of 7)
Campaign 4 - The War with UBAN
New World Order series
EC2000 NACV battleset
The aggression of UBAN in the Middle East and Persian Gulf regions, and more ominously, the open support for the UBAN exhibited by the NSC, has had widespread reverberations. When war broke out in the Persian Gulf, a NSC carrier battlegroup was on exercise off the coast of Morocco. Its operations in the Atlantic were apparently unscheduled, the group having already carried out the bulk of planned maneuvers in the Gulf of Sidra in August 1995. The nearest NATO group was off the Azores, enroute to Brest and returning from support of peacekeeping efforts in Angola. It was immediately turned around and chopped to the Med.
With the NSC carrier group effectively dismantled, the NATO group has passed safely into the Med. Dangers continue to abound, however, in the mid Atlantic. NSC submarines are attacking merchant traffic in the sea lane. Unfortunately, the Coalition has few naval ASW assets available in the area. Most of the sub hunting will therefore have to be done by aircraft operating from shore bases.