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The only one remaining operational Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring has also broken down when in the Gulf: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/883345/UK-warship-Royal-Navy-Gulf-HMS-Diamond

what I noticed last night withrespect to this is that the aircraft that run out of fuel don't seem to be in a proper formation, when you look at the formatino editor some 'patroling' air units aren't listed by patrol type (eg 'asw') but by their class description (eg MV-22b Osprey). The "delete patrol' button is also greyed out. This list of errant air units sits above those that are correctly patroling. Yes, very probably that can be a correct approach to the problem. Both in the "A Passage To Lebanon" and in the modern ASW scenario in the Sea of Japan, are present helicopters carriers with a lot of helicopter patrols, but I was incapable to concrete a pattern in the erroneous helicopter auto patrols.

Interesting link on generic manual of many US Navy weapons. On this page, Mk13 GMLS (Perry-class). Standard missiles are launched at 10 seconds interval, Harpoon at 22 seconds interval: http://www.tpub.com/gunners/169.htm

Some sources: Inspiration took from: SITREP #53, article "Harpoon Scenario: Lebanon 1976 - Suppression and Extraction", by Paul French. http://www.historicalrfa.org/rfa-stromness http://www.navyphotos.co.uk/Aircraft%20and%20Helicopter%20carriers/webpages/bulwark.htm http://www.bulwarkassoc.co.uk/eastleigh/ships/bulwark.htm http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/Bulwark.html https://www.helis.com/database/unit/621/ http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/phantom/history.php http://www.projectoceanvision.com/vox-07.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_occupation_of_Lebanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad#Lebanese_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Forces_Cyprus

File Name: A Passage to Lebanon, May 1980. Hypothetical Post-Colonial Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 20 Nov 2017 File Category: Middle East A Passage to Lebanon, May 1980. Hypothetical Post-Colonial Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for The Middle East 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. Image: HMS Bulwark (R08) in her last commission period 1979-1981, as ASW and assault helicopter carrier (Commando Carrier), equipped then with different Westland Sea King variants. Overflown on this photo by four Sea King, a Wessex and two Gazelle. Image courtesy of http://www.navyphotos.co.uk Navy-photos for fair use, and took in fair use from Wikipedia Commons. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/UK side or from the Red/Syrian side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. It's probably a difficult scenario. This is a post-colonial scenario inspired in the Paul French article on SITREP #53 of October 2017. It's inspired on his scenario, but done more complex, as only Computer Harpoon can provide, doing easy the management of higher number of units and platforms. In the turmoil of the long Lebanon Civil War (1975-1990), on mid-1980 and with the events exacerbated pointly by the Bashir Gemayel efforts to consolidate all the Christian Maronite fighters factions under his leadership of the Kataeb Phalangist Party militia in the Lebanese Forces Party, United Kingdom decided to extract its last nationals and a few selected collaborators from Lebanon. With that aim, a makeshift task force is constituted on Mediterranean Sea, if possible with the support of HMS Bulwark carrying the 45 Commando Royal Marines (Ship and commando historically present in the theatre), and composed mostly of second line Royal Navy ships. As the UK permanent military forces were retired from Cyprus from 1974, as consequence of the Turkish invasion, practically only the Task Force ships and a few allied air assets are, if present, available to the British commander at RAF Akrotiri. The UK warships are mostly second line warships, as the main Royal Navy elements are deployed in the North Atlantic, to prevent the Soviet constant menace, but it's possible the presence of one or two state of art warships. The scenario is some ways similar to the 1982 South Atlantic Campaign against Argentina, with the same case of dissimilar land based air forces against a naval task force. And as explained and as in 1982, the British Task Force ships are not equipped with updated ECM and decoys. Is also showed the UK embarked fighter gap present at those times (By two years, between the HMS Ark Royal (R09) last launching of a Phantom FG.1 on 27 November 1978, and January 1981. As although the effective entry in service of Sea Harrier was on 31 March 1980, it was no aircraft carriers on sea except HMS Bulwark (R08, only with helicopters and not ready for Sea Harrier), as HMS Invincible (R05) was commissioned only on 11 July 1980, embarking 800 Naval Air Squadron first time on January 1981, to be later transferred to HMS Hermes (R12) on June 1981, who was in refit from May 1980 to May 1981), fighter gap present also now in our current times of 2017 (By ten years at least on our times, from when the latest Harrier GR.9 of the Naval Strike Wing were retired in 2010, to when F-35B comes into service on HMS Queen Elizabeth deck, scheduled for 2020). To put us in the historical situation, the previous month of April 1980 was the failed US raid in Iran Operation Eagle Claw to liberate the US hostages of the embassy in Iran, and the take over by Iranian terrorists of the Iranian embassy in London, resolved by a SAS assault on 5 May. As consequence of the regional unrest, the Syrian government of Hafez al-Assad decides can't consent the presence of an UK task force near its coastline, fearing a new Western intervention perhaps in support of Israel or of the Lebanese Forces Party (In opposition to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-2005, with Syria supporting its own pro-Syria PLA faction opposed to Israel and to the Christian Maronite forces, but with too much nuances to explain it here), and improvises an operation to prevent the positioning of the task force near Syria. The confrontation is now settled. Enrique Mas, November 19, 2017. Click here to download this file

New Tupolev Tu-160M2 Blackjack variant, with new NK-32 engines and avionics, to start series production near 2021: https://theaviationist.com/2017/11/16/russia-unveils-new-tu-160m2-strategic-super-bomber-update/

Syria #11218 MIG-21MF Fishbed J 80 has a loadout (#57201 Intercept-2) with main armament 4xAIM-9P Sidewinder (#18760), shared with other two MiG-21MF (#11398 and #9723) both of Egypt and historically correct after Egypt changed sides in Cold War. But I don't know about AIM-9 Sidewinder in Syrian service, think it should be a loadout almost identical but with 4xAA-2 Atoll D (R-13M)(#18532), as sugested from the text description (#2595), but I don't find no similar loadout in the DB.

Cuban warship (Soviet type) #206 P-4 Pr123K 80 has Speed=0, should be 50 knots. http://russianships.info/eng/warfareboats/project_123.htm

The interesting PLUTO OTH at RAF Akrotiri, and other glimpses on the Cold War secrets: http://i56578-swl.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/uk-oth-radar-pluto.html https://cryptome.org/2012/01/0060.pdf Others over the horizon radars: https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Category:Radar

UK AFS #2191 Fort Rosalie-class has both 20mm/85 GAM-B01 pointing port side.

At last, as stated in Chapter 6, page 69 of "Submarines of the IJN 1904-1945", by Dorr B Carpenter and Norman Polmar, Conway Maritime Press 1986: Three categories stablished in 1924: - "I" type (Greek letter lambda, actually): first-class or large submarines. - "RO" type: second-class or medium submarines. - "HA" type: third-class or coastal submarines. - Ex-German submarines received from 1919 were designed as "O" types. - The system suffered of omissions and redundances, and a renumering from 20 May 1942 was even worse, renumering l-52 through l-85 to l-152 to l-185, and midget submarines were designated as "HA" types. - German and Italian submarines adquired in WWII were classified as "I" or "RO" types.

I think from memory "I" types were cruiser/long range oceanic patrol types, and "Ro" smaller, coastal and older types, but don't find any concrete reference now, but as hints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarines_of_the_Imperial_Japanese_Navy#Type_J1_.28I-1.2C_I-2.2C_I-3.2C_I-4.29 http://www.combinedfleet.com/ss.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junsen_type_submarine First "I" type class is J1, with I-1: http://www.combinedfleet.com/type_j1.htm

A TV series based in 43 volumes comic book about a modern Japanese Aegis destroyer back in the time at Midway Battle times, similar to "The Final Countdown", but with a very extended alternate history plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zipang_episodes

SPS-77 Sea Giraffe for Philippines Hamilton-class cutters (I don't put this in the News section because some issues with my mobile): https://www.update.ph/2017/10/air-search-radars-for-2-ph-navy-warships-arrive-maxdefense/22186

Modification 30 October 2017: - Minor changes to two submarines alternate starting points to avoid going aground.

Modification 30 October 2017: - Minor changes to two submarines alternate starting points to avoid going aground.

Modification 29 October 2017: - Minor changes to a neutral to avoid grounding.

Modification 29 0ctober 2017: - Very minor changes on orders texts and deletion of two bases/landmarks to speed-up the scenario play. - Minor changes to a neutral to avoid grounding.

File Name: Second Cold War ASW Warfare in the Sea of Japan, late November 2017. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 29 Oct 2017 File Category: WestPac Second Cold War ASW Warfare in the Sea of Japan, late November 2017. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Western Pacific 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 very probably more funny, fast and furious than the precedent and similar "ASW Forms, Harpoon 3 Battles of the Third World War", settled some twenty-five years before, on late August 1991 Image: The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force anti-submarine warfare helicopter destroyer Hyuga (DDH-181) during Annual Exercise ANNUALEX 21G. On deck two SH-60J (two first ones) and two SH-60K behind, with ESM sensors relocated up in the nose middle. November 17, 2009, photo by John M. Hageman, U.S. Navy, a serviceperson on duty and in consequence in public domain, took from Wikipedia Commons. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/Allied 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. An anti-submarine warfare derivative scenario from the precedent "ASW Forms, Harpoon 3 Battles of the Third World War, late August 1991", with updated and contemporary Orders of Battle and better and more realistic warships and submarines availability and deployment. . The scenario is settled at the start of a contemporary Second Cold War going hot because many causes, the opening movements and contacts, and the first days of true combat. At November 2017, few weeks after the WWIII start in Europe after the Putin's Russia invasion of the Baltic States after the Zapad-17 drills and the subsequent NATO response, in the Far East Japan was keep neutral to avoid a second front for the NATO and other allied Western forces. In the Sea of Japan trading lanes and fishing zones were maintained open and accessible, but with the months pass the tension was increasing. At last, Russia decided to attack the Japanese maritime traffic to create a Far East second front and alleviate the pressure in the main European/North Atlantic theatre of operations. Note: the scenario is qualified as "Historical" because the forces present in the scenario were the historically deployed or very near to the zone of operations in November 2017, including the US Navy ships forward deployed to United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka (and not damaged in recent collisions!), the most modern Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force submarines and warships, basically those from Sasebo District Fleet and Sasebo Naval Base, the Russian Pacific Fleet, and the Chinese North Sea Fleet. Enrique Mas, October 29, 2017. Click here to download this file

Chinese warship #3021 Luzhou Type 051C has Plane Capacity=2, should be Plane Capacity=0, as has not hangar (SS-N-20 launcher complex size precludes the installation of hangar in the aftercastle, showed in photos below). Also, probably Helipad should be "small" (The Chinese warships is a confuse matter because all are much alike between them!): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PLANS_Shenyang_(DDG-115)?uselang=zh-hans#/media/File:Abeam_replenishment_of_PLAN_115_fleet.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PLANS_Shenyang_(DDG-115)?uselang=zh-hans#/media/File:PLANS_Shenyang_(DDG-115)_20150817.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PLANS_Shenyang_(DDG-115)?uselang=zh-hans#/media/File:PLANS_Shenyang_(DDG-115)_20150911.jpg

As curiosity, the first two Bangladeshi submarines, both Ming-type delivered in March 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNS_Nabajatra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNS_Joyjatra

Chinese submarine #6526 Shang Type 093B 13 has Victory Type=Nuke Missile, should be "Nuke Attack", as the rest of Shang Type 093 variants.

Interesting article on future B-21 Raider probable high altitude capabilities: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14919/the-b-21s-three-decade-old-shape-hints-at-new-high-altitude-capabilities