Foxes in the Henhouse

Foxes in the Hen House

A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Westpac battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side.

The Soviet HENS submarines - the Hotel class SSBNs, the Echo class SSGNs and the November class SSNs - that began deploying in the early 1960s introduced a major technological breakthrough that gave them a dramatic acoustic advantage over the US Navy's Skipjacks and Skates. The new concept was rafting - where a submarine's engineering plant was placed on a flexible mount or raft within the submarine - dramatically reduced the transmission of mechanical vibrations through the hull, and into the water.

Intelligence reports that three Soviet nuclear submarines, believed to comprise the Hotel II class SSBN Ukrainsky Komsomolets, Echo I class SSGN K-122 and the November class SSN Leninsky Komsomol, are transiting the Strait of Tartary, enroute to their deployment zones in the Western Pacific. The Skipjack attack submarines USS Shark and USS Sculpin have recently passed through the La Perouse Strait and have been directed to intercept the Soviet boats before they can deploy into their patrol zones.

This scenario is the early Cold War version of blind man's bluff, where to make noise is to invite death.