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Note: In this scenario, to avoid spoilers, it is compulsory to play the Israeli/Blue side a few times, and only after play the Iranian/Red side.
 
This scenario also wants to be a study about the feasibility of a strike erasing the future nuclear capabilities of Iran.
My intention in this scenario was also to reproduce the Israel and Iran OOB in 2010.
 
Some months after the political and tactical semi-failure of the Mavi Marmara affair doctored by the IHH, a supposed Turkish Islamic charity, the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief (May 31, 2010), a new Israeli coalition Government, leaded by the moderate Premier Shlomo Ben-Ami, ex- Foreign Affairs Minister and former Ambassador in Spain, very influenced by his pair of mysterious Spanish counsellors (Code-named Hello Kitty and SpongeBob SquarePants), is impelled by the Western Powers to actuate as a scapegoat and to stop the Iranian military nuclear program, doing the mission the Western Powers are afraid to do because his multiple political implications.
The strike must be realised before the imminent Iranian deployment of the new and powerful S-300/SA-10 SAMs, complement of the previous deployed long-range SA-5 Gammon.
 
Only credible and political admissible action is a conventional attack with Precision Guided Munitions, a limited and surgical strike without collateral damages will be also the only political acceptable Israeli option gullible for the mass-media.
The Heyl HaAvir and the Heyl HaYam are only five days to obtain the victory, before the US and other countries will be forced reluctantly to stop the strikes because the usual pressure of unoccupied demostrators worldwide the week-end after the first strike.
 
And the only possible income of the battle is the Total Victory, with the annihilation of at least all the designated targets: Bushehr comprising his nuclear reactor (ZPa) the Nuke Sites 1 (YSb), 2 (YRb) and 3 (YQb), the Terror Camps 1 (YDa), 2 (YCa) and 3 (YBa), and the TBM Site (YFb) (first you must to localize some of those targets).
 
Is compulsory for Israel to no lose more than 60 planes, to avoid a propagandistic victory by Iran.
 
Also, as a side diversion, the Israeli player must resolve the question of a undetermined number of apparent merchant ships with the manifested intention of repeat the facts of the first Gaza flotilla, supposedly waiting in front the Israeli coast, and a few armed blockade-runners. But in this time, if open hostilities with Iran are opened, the supposed civilian ships can be freely sunken.
 
You can expect also a imminent surface-to-surface missile attack after the breakout of the hostilities.
The pro-Iranian faction Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria can also provide some support to the Iranian side.
 
The air corridors between Israel and Iran are guaranteed (for both contenders) by the disengagement of the conflict by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and mostly Iraq, a sort of terra nullius (also, after the withdraw of the US forces, lefting only a embrionary air force in Iraq).
 
Enrique Mas, August 2010

This was in the begining a test scenario to test unguided air-to-air rockets, basically in the F-94C Starfire, and his effectiveness (I was very dubtious about the capability in the game of a unguided rocket to hit in a flying airplane). And I'm not detected crashes in this scenario, at least for now.
But now I think it can be very simple introductory scenario to Harpoon HCE, mostly for old time interception and worth of release it, with the flavour of the early 1950s.
The situation report is very simple, your're at the command of the 39th Fighter Interceptor Squadron near 1954, temporarily deployed from Komaki AFB, Japan, to South Korea (and very reinforced in strenght), and equipped with the new Lockheed F-94C Starfire (derived from the F-80/T-33), all-weather interceptor exclusively armed with unguided air-to-air rockets (the famous 2.75" FFAR Mk4 Mighty Mouse), to defend Seul from upcoming streams of communist bombers breaking the 1953 ceasefire !
And remember, it's only a very simple and unrealistic test scenario, but fun of play, you can kill a lot of enemy planes. As outcome of the test, we will reduce in next iterations from the 50to65 DB the air PH/PK of entry 18965, 6x70mm FFAR RP, from 30% to a more realistic 15% (i.e. a individual rocket PH/PK of 2.5, as in my old stimates).
And you can verify as the rockets are more effective against the less maneouvrable soviet bombers as against the nimble and agile MiG-15 Fagot, as in the real life.

Prelude to Musketeer, an hypothetical scenario about the capture of the Egyptian destroyer Ibrahim al-Awal.
 
Image: Dassault Ouragan at the Israeli Air Force Museum in Hatzerim, 2004 by
Oren Rozen. Source: Wikipedia.
 
A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Middle East Battleset and the HCCW-120614 Cold War Platform Database.
 
This scenario is designed for play by the Israeli/Blue or the Egyptian/Red side, but to prevent some spoilers is better to play first the Blue side some times and only after play the Red side.
It's recommended to play the scenario in slow time compression, between 1 seconde and 1 minute most of the time.
 
The almost forgetted Suez Crisis or Second Arab-Israeli War was a very interesting campaign with some novelties, as the History first heliborne assault. And ever the future Syrian president al-Asad participed in the shoot-down a British Canberra PR.7!
After the US refused to pay the building of the Aswan dam project, the Egyptian president Colonel Nasser decides to nationalize the Suez Canal on 26 July 1956 to pay for the dam building.
British and French, interested on the recuperation of the Canal and in the freedom of navigation, signed with Israel the then and for many years secret Protocol of Sevres on late October 1956.
On 29 October 1956 Israel attacks the Sinai Peninsula in the designated as Operation Kadesh.
With the alibi of protect the freedom of navigation in the Canal and his approaches (and because the secret treaty with Israel), Britain and France launched an ultimatum to the fighting factions calling to withdraw from within 16 km of the Suez Canal. When Egypt refused, the British and French launched Operation Musketeer to secure the Canal zone, with the ruse of separating Egyptian and Israeli forces.
Operation Musketeer, comprising a massive air strike (in part failed) from the carriers, Cyprus and Malta against the Egyptian airbases and airborne, heliborne and landing occupation, inclusive with heavy armour, of Port Said, his twin city Port Fuad and the Canal Zone.
Some days later, on 7 November 1956, as both President Eisenhower, the not-alligned States and the Soviet Union strongly opposed British-French military action, was acorded a cease-fire and the Anglo-French troops retired from the Canal Zone.
As a Egyptian counter-strike in the first hours of the war against Israel, the solitaire assignation of the Egyptian destroyer Ibrahim al-Awal to bombard the Israeli shore city of Haifa and his port was almost condemned to failure because his lack of support.
This scenario speculates about the possibility of a open naval-centered fight in the first hours of Operation Musketeer, just before the Anglo-French intervention.
In the scenario the Egyptian side compromisses most of his naval assets in the sea to support the Ibrahim al-Awal mission, and both sides have assigned some air assets for support of his naval forces (about the 40% of each initial air force is represented in this scenario).
Is 1956, and air-to-air missiles and effective search radar in fighter planes are yet some years in the future. Israel has an heteroclit composition air force with even very vulnerable liquid-cooled engine F-51D propeller fighters and two operational B-17 Flying Fortress, Egypt has some few Spitfire F.22, Hawker Fury and Lancaster bombers in the reserves.
Both sides must use intensively ground control to keep track of the enemy and to direct his fighters to intercept the enemy planes. At that moment some countries, as Syria, haven't any ground-based radar, and Egypt has only an handful of them concentrated in the Canal Zone, the Soviet radars were not yet in service when Muskeeter begin.
 
Some warships and planes are represented by equivalent types of other countries.
 
Enrique Mas, December 2012.

Battle of Baltim, 9 October 1973, Hypothetical Scenario.
 
A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Middle East Battleset and the HCCW-120614 Cold War Platform Database.
 
This scenario is designed for play by the Israeli/Blue or the Egyptian/Red side, to avoid spoilers is better to play the first time the Blue/Israeli side.
 
On the third day of the Yom Kippur War, a couple of days after the Battle of Latakia, on the 8-9 October 1973, a confrontation between Israeli and Egyptian fast missile boats outcome the same result as the previous combat. The same ships and weapons types as in the Battle of Latakia, the Israeli side only can rely on his superior electronics, ESM, ECM and decoys to win, also, the semiactive radar guided missile Gabriel I has less range but more precision than the Soviet SS-N-2a Styx/P-15 Termit. But, if the missiles are expended and they are enemy warships remaining, the Israeli boats are better and longer ranged guns.
 
Also, at front of the Israeli warships is the same Commander Michael Barkai, called Yoni, first arrived only with two boats on the Egyptian shores with a margin of some hours after the victory off the Syrian coast near Latakia. Up to ten missile boats assembled the Israelis north of Egypt, but as many of them have noy fully refueled after the mission in Syria they retire before the combat (of the four boats retired, only is historically determined the identity of INS Miznak, the initial flagship of Barkai).
On the Egyptian side, four Osa I missile boats sortied from Alexandria to protect the Egyptian north shore, and other four sortied from Port Said to flee to Alexandria but returned when the Israeli counter-offensive stalled.
 
On this hypothetical scenario are included the Israeli and Egyptian warships who by few minutes retired and elude the historical battle.
 
Unnamed places are:
ZRb and ZUp: Baltim, Egypt.
ZTp: Damietta, Egypt.