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Some sources: http://aviateurs.e-monsite.com/pages/1946-et-annees-suivantes/mirage-vs-u2.html https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-french-mirage-iii-unintentionally-buzzed-and-scared-a-u-2-flying-at-65000ft-during-a-mission-aimed-to-monitor-frances-nuclear-facilities/ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Pessidous https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/facilities/french-facilities.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEA_Valduc https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moteur-fusée_SEPR https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2e_escadre_de_chasse http://www.kristinhillartist.com/FishHawk_article.html https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000190094.pdf Great Conservatoire Air et Space d'Aquitaine (CAEA) site on French aircrafts: https://www.caea.info/en/la-collection/le-materiel/37-collection/avio-de-combat/189-dassault-mirage-iii-e

View File Cold War on Cold War: Mirage IIIE vs U-2 Dragon Lady. June 1967. Historical Scenario. Cold War on Cold War: Mirage IIIE vs U-2 Dragon Lady. June 1967. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCDB2-170909 (or later) 1980-2025 era Platform Database. This scenario is designed with Advanced Scenario Editor Build 2017.013 and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. This scenario is designed to be played from the Red/France side or from the Blue/US-UK side. You should play a few times first the Red side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Blue side. Image: Article 389, serial no. 56-6722; Last of the original batch of U-2A Dragon Lady aircraft, on display at the USAF Museum. From late 1965 all (both USAF and CIA operational airframes) were painted Black Velvet colour, for visual spectre and slightly antiradar effects, and very probably this was the aspect of the very similar and probable U-2F intercepted by Pessidous, save adding two leading edge auxiliary fuel tanks and in-flight refuelling, boom type (U.S. Air Force Museum took by a serviceperson on duty and in consequence in public domain, and from Wikipedia Commons). This is a very very tiny scenario simply developed from historical facts. CIA and USAF clandestine U-2 flights in the Cold War were not only developed over potential enemies, also over doubtful allies. Charles de Gaulle, as WWII reputed saviour of France, on his 1959-1969 presidential terms constructed an independent nuclear deterrent force for his country, improved the conventional forces and military industry, and quits the integrated NATO chain of command in 1966. In 1966, all French armed forces were removed from NATO's integrated military command, and all non-French NATO troops were asked to leave France (including now almost forgotten USAF bases). Eventually some forty years later France announced its return to full participation from 2009. As consequence some others allied countries decide to learn more about the real French capabilities. Are relatively well known the U-2 carrier operations in French territories in the Pacific Ocean (Operation Fish Hawk, May 1964, two U-2G based on USS Ranger (CV-61) to overfly Mururoa Atoll waiting for the first French H-Bomb test), and are mentioned in the 2013 declassified (and disappointing) CIA's U-2 book, from page 247, but are not these operations over France. Apparently after previous flights the high point of these was June 1967, when a Mirage IIIE piloted by Roger Pessidous equipped with the option of a auxiliary SEPR 844 rocket engine photographed a probably a U-2F very probably near Dijon and the CEA Valduc nuclear warheads facility, ending the U-2 overflies of France. As relevant side note outcome of this scenario, the Mirage IIIE was introduced in April 1965 (Escadron de Chasse 2/13 "Alpes"), but only from 1968 in the Dijon-Longvic based 2e Escadre de Chasse (Escadron de Chasse 1/30 "Alsace", and the very famous Escadron de Chasse 1/2 "Cicognes"), employing Mirage IIIC yet in 1967, and the SEPR 844 rocket engine was introduced only in 1967. In consequence the Pessidious' Mirage IIIE in this operation was very probably a test aircraft, not integrated in the regular units and probably unarmed. But if the things had gone wrong ... Enrique Mas, August 22, 2021. Submitter broncepulido Submitted 08/26/2021 Category MEDC  

On the presence of both UK and Chinese carriers in the zone: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41752/british-and-chinese-aircraft-carriers-both-underway-in-the-tense-south-china-sea To follow the steaming of USS Tulsa LCS-16, apparently armed with only 1xNSM and perhaps "something" in the combat module after the gun: https://www.surfpac.navy.mil/Media/News/Article/2713202/uss-tulsa-lcs-16-sails-in-the-philippine-sea/ https://www.facebook.com/TulsaBlue/ Just here: https://scontent.fvlc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/201997926_1132684547227946_3551401952423554092_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=KNsC5f80kWIAX_thJHI&_nc_ht=scontent.fvlc1-1.fna&oh=9129b57756438e6e4aad876af4ee5192&oe=612A8316

Some sources: https://theaviationist.com/2021/06/28/f-35b-close-to-russian-ship-med/ https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/press21/queen-elizabeth-carrier-pacific-deployment2021.htm https://news.usni.org/2021/07/02/warships-hms-defender-hnlm-evertsen-leave-black-sea https://www.navylookout.com/mediterranean-interlude-carrier-strike-group-on-defence-diplomacy-mission/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Carrier_Strike_Group_21 https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/PLUTO_II_OTH_Radar https://i56578-swl.blogspot.com/search/label/PLUTO https://tass.com/defense/1310499 https://tass.com/defense/1307815 And a friend's book: https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/moscows-game-of-poker-russian-military-intervention-in-syria-2015-2017.php

View File HMS Queen Elizabeth CSG21 Phase I: The Med. Early July 2021. Historical Alternate Scenario. HMS Queen Elizabeth CSG21 Phase I: The Med. Early July 2021. Historical Alternate Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCDB2-170909 (or later) 1980-2025 era Platform Database. This scenario is designed with Advanced Scenario Editor Build 2017.013 and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/NATO side or from the Red/Russian side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. Image: Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R 08) and guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) operate in formation in the Gulf of Aden, July 12, 2021, few days after this scenario depicted actions (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason Tarleton, a serviceperson on duty and in consequence in public domain). At last UK returns to rule the waves. After a few years delay, Carrier Strike Group 21, centred in the HMS Queen Elizabeth, carrying both British and USMC F-35B fighter-bombers, and with a multinational NATO escort, sails the first stages of her Far East tour. Some of her escorts are returning from courtesy visits on friendly ports, or from the conflictive Black Sea, waiting to traverse the Suez Canal from Port Said. But from the eventful year of 2014 the World was beginning the so-called Second Cold War, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin (ex-KGB lieutenant colonel) was showing clearly his plan to recover the Russian Empire and later Soviet territories for reinstitute the greatness of his Russia, and to guarantee his passage on the History as saviour of the Rodina. If the things go wrong, its forward deployed forces in the Mediterranean and Syria should complicate the life on board CSG21. And the things are going wrong ... Enrique Mas, July 18, 2021. Submitter broncepulido Submitted 07/18/2021 Category MEDC

Some sources: https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/7634 https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2020/05/us-sixth-fleet-enters-barents-sea https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2020/09/norwegian-frigate-sails-near-russias-fishermen-peninsula-together-uk-and-us-ships https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2020/08/us-navys-most-advanced-attack-submarine-surfaced-outside-tromso https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2021/03/northern-fleet-makes-ready-missile-tests https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2021/03/norwegian-frigate-patrol-close-kola-peninsula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Integrated_Air_Defense_System#Norway https://blog.usni.org/posts/2009/11/11/12-november-1944-the-death-of-the-lonely-queen https://news.usni.org/2021/03/22/norwegian-officials-russian-arctic-expansion-making-security-landscape-difficult?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=85f3bd2de4-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-85f3bd2de4-231039869&mc_cid=85f3bd2de4&mc_eid=f9dfe1a0a1 https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2387213/uss-ross-returns-to-barents-sea/ https://theaviationist.com/2021/02/23/norwegian-f-35a-jets-with-their-peculiar-upper-fuselage-drag-chute-pod-deploy-to-iceland-for-natos-air-policing/ https://www.luke.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/682293/norway-hits-century-mark/ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Авиация_Военно-морского_флота_Российской_Федерации https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/45-я_армия_ВВС_и_ПВО https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/08/russias-forpost-uav-designates-naval-targets-during-black-sea-fleet-maneuvers/#:~:text=Forpost was created on the,means%2C transmitting and radio equipment.

View File The not so Lonely New Queen of the North. March 2021. Hypothetical Scenario. The not so Lonely New Queen of the North. March 2021. Hypothetical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB2-170909 (or later) 1980-2025 era Platform Database. This scenario is designed with Advanced Scenario Editor Build 2017.013 and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/NATO side or from the Red/Russian side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. Image: Russian Guided Missile Cruiser Marshal Ustinov (Soviet Project 1164 Atlant, Slava-class for NATO) steaming through the English Channel on November 15, 2018. Aerial photograph took from a Royal Navy Merlin Mk2 Helicopter by LPHOT SEELEY/MOD, and licensed under the Open Government License. In all the three Slava-class cruiser completed, P-500 Bazalt anti-ship cruise missiles are replaced by P-1000 Vulkan anti-ship missiles. Chervona Ukraina/Varyag was from the start equipped with P-1000 Vulkan anti-ship missiles, and in Slava/Moskva and Marshal Ustinov P-500 Bazalt were replaced by P-1000 Vulkan (in service from 1987) in the late 1980s. From the start, casual observers were surprised by the steadfastness of the new Biden Administration face the aggressive and expansionist Russia and China postures. One of its first moves was the deployment of B-1B Lancer, with maritime strike capability (nominally equipped with AGM-158C LRASM-A from June 2018), in Norway 22 February-23 March 2021, including one B-1B deployed to Bodo inside the Arctic Circle from March 8. Less known to the world, that action was in response to continuous near violations of Norway's territorial waters by Russian naval vessels. Most executed sailing west of the Fishermen Peninsula by the Guided Missile Cruiser Marshal Ustinov, temporally the biggest Northern Fleet surface warship after the Pyotr Velikiy CGN, in a clear propaganda stunt but with a 35 years old vessel. Fjords and a big enemy warship playing hide-and-seek, for some a remembrance of 1944 and the ancient German battleship Tirpitz, the Lonely Queen of the North. In this hypothetical scenario many misunderstood drive to a hot situation and an open conflict, but to avoid an escalade limited to into theater forces and limited ground strikes against the opponent sovereign territories. Enrique Mas, 4 July 2021. Submitter broncepulido Submitted 07/04/2021 Category GIUK

Very interesting and detailed article(s) and web site: https://www.navylookout.com/the-all-rounder-the-30mm-automated-small-calibre-gun-in-focus/

Some sources: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/352380/Naval-SITREP-60-April-2021?src=newest https://www.navypedia.org/ships/germany_east/gdr_index.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Were_Expendable

View File Escape Beyond Laboe May 1988. Hypothetical Scenario. Escape Beyond Laboe May 1988. Hypothetical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB2-170909 (or later) 1980-2025 era Platform Database. This scenario is designed with Advanced Scenario Editor Build 2017.013 and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/Federal Republic of Germany-NATO side or from the Red/German Democratic Republic side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. Image: Baltic Sea, Laboe Naval Memorial and U-995 Type VIIC/41 museum boat, near the Kiel Fjord eastern entrance. 2013 photo by TeWeBs took from Wikipedia Commons. A classic WWIII in the eighties scenario, inspired on the Kevin Martell's Bugout scenario published at the Naval SITREP 61. For more details on the situation, read the Naval SITREP 61 scenario. But the situation is basically WWIII started only about four hours ago, and for keep our Baltic ports and sea lanes open next weeks, Federal Republic of Germany and NATO need transit the MCM ships from Neustadt in Holstein to Kiel and avoid its destruction, under the fears of the WarPac forces overrunning the port. Enrique Mas, 6 June 2021. Submitter broncepulido Submitted 06/06/2021 Category GIUK

At last played. Very interesting, fun and balanced scenario, thanks for sharing. SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT I fulfilled the Blue Side Total Victory condition (to sunk 3x specific type ships), but don't trigger Total Victory, some similar in another scenario I'm buildin now.