broncepulido Posted May 28, 2017 Report Share Posted May 28, 2017 File Name: Operation Opera, June 7, 1981. Historical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 28 May 2017 File Category: Middle East Operation Opera, June 7, 1981. Historical Scenario.A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for The Middle East Battleset and the new HCDB2-170522 1980-2025 era Platform Database. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later.Image: Israeli Air Force F-16A Netz '243', aircraft flown by Colonel Ilan Ramon in Operation Opera. This was the eighth and last to drop its bombs onto the reactor. CIAF, Brno-Turany, 4 September 2004. Image by KGyST, took from Wikipedia Commons.This scenario is designed to be played only from the Blue/Israeli side. The Red/Iraqi Saudi side is programmed, but not fully playable.Operation Opera was a historical strategic long-range operation of the Israeli Air Force, aimed to prevent the supposed use by Saddam Hussein's Iraq of a French supplied nuclear reactor to build nuclear weapons.The experimental reactor Osiraq (Or Osirak, composite word of the Osiris type reactor and Iraq or Irak) was placed at Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Center, near Bagdad.The reactor was previously attacked without results by the Islamic Republic of Iran with F-4E Phantom on September 30, 1980 (Operation Scorch Sword), as only were attacked the auxiliary installations to avoid the risk of radioactive fallout, because the limited intelligence on the target status.Also previously to the Israeli attack, another Islamic Republic of Iran Air force attack against the H-3 airfields complex, on 4 April 1981, degraded the capabilities of the Iraqi Air Force.Operation Opera was executed by the first batch of brand new F-16A, received by Israel from July 1980.Were employed only Mk84 dumb bombs, two carried by each F-16A, but at least eight of the 16 bombs launched hit the reactor dome, a notable achievement. Some bombs were equipped with very long time delayed fuses, to prevent reconstruction attempts.At last, the reactor was destroyed in the 1991 Gulf War, including the Package Q Strike attack of 19 January.Could you replicate the Israeli achievement in this apparently simple scenario?Enrique Mas, 28 May 2017. Click here to download this file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncepulido Posted May 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2017 Sources: Naval SITREP 36 (April 2009 issue), Harpoon Scenario: Operation Opera, pages 11-12, by Peter Brining. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera https://fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/osiraq.htm https://theaviationist.com/2014/06/07/operation-opera-explained/ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/operation-opera-raid-on-iraqi-nuclear-reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scorch_Sword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-3_airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_Q_Strike http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/grumman-e-2-hawkeye-daya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncepulido Posted June 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2017 Historical remembrance in a The Aviationist article a few days ago, in the 26 aniversary. To highlight in the link the great Rick Herter painting: https://theaviationist.com/2017/06/07/36-years-ago-today-operation-opera-the-israeli-air-strike-on-an-iraqi-nuclear-reactor/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdcool Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 How do you load it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CV32 Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 How do you load it? See the FAQ section and more particularly, the part about user scenarios and custom databases here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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