Unification Part II

[Dra-pol]

(Bear in mind before you read- I had one small meal today, and half a bottle of vodka, and I'm still going as I write this...I can't remember if it was ready to post, or if I wanted to wait until tomorrow..take concerns to the ooc thread!)

Let the paper tigers know; they have awakened a true wildcat in the Choson People’s Republic.
-Comrade Hotan, Secretary of the Communist Party.

OOC thread

The confusing world of Part I

As it should have been to begin with (for practicality’s sake; I still don’t mean to offend anyone!) this will now be an invite only RP- anyone may visit the OOC thread and post there with thoughts or interest in joining.
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The CPRD finds itself isolated. Beijing may not oppose the forcible reunification, but Dra-pol’s northern neighbour is sure to face international pressure to withhold aid and access granted to the “hermit kingdom” during the last major Drapoel conflict, known as the Crusader War. The naval blockade enforced then was circumvented when the PR China allowed nations such as Beth Gellert and the African Commonwealth to ship aid to DaKhiem over land.

Spyrians have become amongst the first diplomats to be accepted into the Drapoel interior since a Quinntonian mission cumulated in the Three Day War (AKA Kurosian’s Rage) and eventually the massive and brutal Crusader War in which more than three million men and women perished. The Spyr nationals may be the first outsiders in centuries or even millennia to glimpse the Forbidden City of Paegam. They are all but alone since Kilean missile strikes against Kosong brought about the final sealing of that so called Open City. North Yaman has, perhaps because of its proximity, taken some interest in the crisis, acting as another voice of some moderation as hot heads take a reactionary line.

While Kilean, Hudecia, Lunatic Retard Robots and an old enemy, Promise of Joshua deploy forces to South Korea in defence of the reeling ROK, other nations have taken steps to resist DaKhiem’s forcible unification plan. _Taiwan and Quinntonia are essentially undeclared opponents to Drapoel expansion, with the latter fearing the artillery-led reduction of its vast Korean city-state colony of Hamhung and Hungnam, and the former aware of DaKhiem’s menacing missile tests.

This ramshackle coalition works now to secure the ROK’s Southeast against a communist advance sped by years of planning, extensive tunnels, hostage taking on a grand city-wide scale, and massive numerical superiority. The Drapoel People’s Army has crossed the east-west stretch of the Naktong and driven far down South Korea’s west coast. Now the wall of humanity approaches the Naktong’s north-south stretch from the west while thundering south through Kyongsang-Bukto towards Daegu and its ever strengthening defenders.

They’ve seemed unstoppable, but the People’s Army’s five million plus soldiers in the ROK increasingly find themselves wanting for support as fuel shortages and coalition bombing and missile strikes take a toll. In the Choson People’s Republic and the northern ROK the PA became accustomed to massive AAA and SAM coverage, artillery backing, easily defensible terrain, underground railway links, close air support, and clear intelligence. These things are now beginning to fade into the advance’s wake as DaKhiem and the coalition prepares for a new showdown in uncertain territory.

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On the Daejon-Daegu road an allied division beats a fighting retreat in an effort to buy time for the consolidation of the Southeast, but the People’s Army is attempting to bypass and isolate the unit by virtue of its vast numbers. Not far back, at Daegu, lies a ROKA division likely to be involved as the People’s Army attempts to cross the north-south stretch of the Naktong.

Gumi is likely to become part of the front line at any moment as the broad sweeping People’s Army’s advance attempts to breech the river.

To the north some 20,000 Hudecians seem in real danger of encirclement at Andong, as the People’s Army has already passed the river at several points away from the city.

Much surviving ROKA strength is involved in counter-insurgency patrol of the Southeast against further Red Bamboo and Banat infiltration. Other South Koreans, with Kilean and Quinntonian backing, are engaged in vicious partisan actions behind Drapoel lines, seeking out the little trod paths now used by the off-roading People’s Army that prove difficult to pin down and disable by conventional means. Ambushes, sniper duels, bombings, revenge executions, sabotage, and massive hunts occur across occupied soil, but Drapoel influence is reinforced by the hour and local resources sapped.
Busan is central to growing anti-Drapoel efforts with multiple nations deploying troops and aircraft. The People’s Army Air Force meanwhile has begun to re-deploy large numbers of aircraft, SAMs, AAA, anti-shipping missiles to occupied bases in the ROK, many of which were captured intact by Red Bamboo and Banat commandos in the first day of the war.

Off all sides of the Korean peninsula allied forces attempt to enforce a naval blockade, but Drapoel anti-shipping missiles on the coast keep them back more than a hundred kilometres, and with the capture of ROK airbases the PAAF’s operational potential grows to accommodate its ten thousand combat aircraft.

[Hudecia]

Even as the PA forces are crossing the bridges into the southeastern corner of Korea, Hudecian engineers, knowing that such an action was not only likely but to be attempted, blow up the bridges with C4.

Thousands of PA forces were marching or driving across the Hwang river. In the bushes less than a kilometer away, Hudecian marines laid in wait. Remote detonators triggered the explosions, sending metal and humans flying.

There was nothing that could be done about the pre-fab bridges that the Drapol troops had brought. Air strikes could be called in but not before thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of troops crossed.

-Hudecian HQ- Ulsan-

"So it has finally begun." General O'Neil sat by the interactive battle screen that had been set up. "We still have 40 000 troops in reserve right?"

"Yes sir, but only lightly armed troops." Major Anderson replied.

O'Neil paused, he hated commiting his reserve, but under the circumstances...

"Send them up the road to cut off the Drapol advance. Send the latest intel to the troops in Andong. Tell them to hold on just yet. But keep a way to the sea open... if necessary we'll pull them out... but not yet."

-Ulsan Airport-

Lt. Rangan climbed into his Arrow II and received his orders. -Drapol troops breaching Hwang, destroy all crossings, no exceptions. Wingman's targets will be roads.-

He crumpled the paper and threw it away before climbing into his fighter and taking off. Something told him that things had just taken a turn for the worse.

[Hudecia]

-Yellow Sea-

Admiral Smetka, only vaguely aware of the growing dilemma on the peninsula was putting into action the second phase of Operation Thirst.

From the flight decks of the Hudecian carriers 600 fighters were launched into action.

Primarily they would be bombing supply convoys heading south between Seoul and Daejeon.

Secondarily they were to engage the PAAF and destroy any airfields.

It was hoped that by achieving the first they would draw out the PAAF from their airfields, and in the 'big wing' formation, easily destoy any isolated attempt to stop them.

[Kilean]

Jochaim hadn't slept in three days. The mountain divison had been retreating from Daejon for over a week, bleeding the Dra-Pol with local counterattacks. He lived in a half-trance of violence and death with little food and no sleep.

But for some reason, they kept fighting. For some reason, the Dra-Pol kept coming. The rearguard of the division had just got across the river right before the Heudecians had blown it. It was a good thing, too-the Dra-Pol were within sight, columns of men moving like a brownish-green snake out of the mountains.

Jochaim shook his head. This was not good. Or maybe it was- they weren't marching anymore. He sipped his Dr.Pepper, and was a good deal into cleaning his G-21 when he snapped. It all cracked, the death, the fighting, all of it. He started giggling. Laughing insanely.

Bleary-eyed, the squad machinegunner looked at him.

"What's so goddamn funny?"

Jochaim wiped tears away from his eyes. "We're dug in at a goddamn McDonalds."

The other soldier looked at him blankly.

"I just realized that these freakin' Koreans just gave me a 'rarge' Dr.Pepper." Jochaim went back to laughing.

It was catharsis for him. He laughed, and for the moment, he wasn't thinking about tomorrow.
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The Kilean mountain division- about 15,000 men (well, less the casualties suffered in the past week, which have not been light) are digging in along with the Heudecians in Gumi. Seeing that a significant attempt to stop the Dra-Pol is actually going to happen, General Lee is sending one of his divisions to Gumi. The other surviving ROK division (a provisional unit) is going to remain in Daegu and create fallback positions.

A ragged Kilean mountain division and a ROK infantry division (25,000 men along with some 200 odd Type 88 tanks and 70 M-109 SPG's) are joining the Heudecians in what will probably soon become the battle of Gumi.
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The first flights of Arrow II's in the air screamed over Pusan AFB. On the runway, yet more allied planes taxied into position.

Viper felt the engine of his falkon surge. Viper (everybody called him by his callsign) sqinted into the early morning sun. Dawn was casting the whole airfield in a bright, almost mystical look. He gritted his chiseled muscular jaw.

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He slammed the throttle forwards, and the jet seemed to leap off the ground.

Time to kick some ass.
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In co-ordination with the Heudecians, the Kilean Air Force launches a major offensive aimed at weakening the PA
AF in the skies over southern Korea. While Falkon squadrons close with enemy ground attack fighters, The Raven's attack their interceptors from long range. Managed from AWAC's craft over the tsushima straights, the KAF fights using it's new "dynamic swarm" doctrine, in which squadrons fight a non-linear battle, using superior communications and dynamic overall strategy to attack the poorly-trained, tactically rigid PAAF.

This is the first major effort on the part of the KAF. The pilots are sick of pinprick raids and inconclusive skirmishes. Hundreds of Kilean fighters are taking to the skies, and this time, they're out for blood.

Over 250 top-line fighters- Falkons and Ravens- have taken to the skies.

In addition, all the Kilean Army Air Corps planes in Korea, made safe(er) by the surge of allied air power, begin to operate against the Dra-Pol forces north of Gumi.

About 300 jets- a mix of jaguar strike jets, prop-driven Condor antitank aircraft, Wild Weasel A-4's, and strike configured Falkons- all of them totally integrated with Kilean ground forces- are dispatched. The plan calls for about 2,000 combat sorties a day to be flown against the Dra-Pol armies.

Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy, but the fact that high command called for that level of operational tempo reveals just how much they expect to get done.
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Under the cover of this massive combined air offensve, the Donner heavy bombers return. With Kilean fighters supressing the PAAF, they come over the sea of japan unmolested. Due to damage from the last raid, only some 48-odd bombers can make it, but this still means about a hundred-odd Longbow heavy cruise missiles come down on major concentrations of Dra-Pol troops in south korea.
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In the confusion of the air offensive, the two "gryphon" squadrons take off from Jeju-do. Along with 24 "visgoth" bombers (something like B-1 made specifically for low-altitude air defense penetration) they form up over the yellow sea.

In front of them flies a squadron of twelve "basilisk" ECM jets. Based off of the Gryphon, they volley antiradar missiles at the Dra-Pol SAM radars before filling the sky around the northwest ROK with screeching elecronic static. (years later, ecologists will notice a spike in bird cancer rates that happened around this time. In addition, a non-hardned iPod one of the bomber crews carries has it's HD wiped from the sheer level of ECM the Basilisks put out).

The Gryphons and Visgoths streak forwards, going over mach 2 at just above sea level. The skies above occupied Inchon fill with AAA fire as the Kilean bombers scream in behind a wall of Basilisk-dropped flares. They carry full bombloads, and aim to hit concentrations of Dra-Pol reserve troops and supplies in the Inchon/Seoul area as part of the larger air offensive against Dra-Pol.

[Spyr]

Sea of Japan
A PRS Sohee class destroyer moves into international waters in the Sea of Japan just off Dra-pol, and holds station sweeping actively with sonar and radar.

Its purpose is to recieve coded broadcasts from the Spyran diplomats in Dra-pol if/when they have a chance to communicate. The risk of 'allies' tracing directed communications in order to target their ordnance could not be dismissed, and so a more indiscriminate, and less traceable, encrypted transmission method was being used to assuage the potential fears of the Drapoel, and the Spyran diplomats themselves.

Paegam

Ambassador Etoro looked around, soaking in the ancient beauty of the city. Her entourage followed close behind... simply a cameraman filming everything around them, and a communications tech bearing the suitcase containing their transmitter. The Spyran government had wanted to keep the delegation small... the goal, after all, was simply to fathom the thinking of the Drapoel, to see if there was hope for a diplomatic settlement and subsequent end to policies of isolation. And, few had been willing to take the risk of travelling to an unpredictable regime while shells flew all around. Hopefully, Etoro would be enough.

[_Taiwan]

Zhang had made his decision. He was going to help the South Koreans against the 'cheeky commies', whom had killed much of his family during the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Even if it went behind the President's back.

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From a base in the Matsu islands, a dozen GlobalHawk UAVs are launched, headed to the Dra-pol Korean border on a supposed 'training run'.

[Hudecia]

-Yeongdeok-

Hudecian marines based out of Pohang moved up to this town to prevent the northern corps from being cut off.

-Cheongsong-

Troops from the northernmost corps based in Andong begin defending this town, preparing for a rapid escape to the coast if necessary.

-Ulsan-

The 40 000 Hudecian reserve corps began moving out as fast as they could to the frontline... ideally they would take advantage of the chaos caused by the destruction of the bridges and reach the front line. Otherwise they would move into defensive positions. However, a decision needed to be made soon, before they reach Yeongcheon.

At the airport, the 600 Hudecian aircraft were flying regularly trying to disrupt the Drapol advance.

[Garrison II]

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Garrison II at the moment is debating wheither or not to deploy the 4th, 7th, 12th fleets to the conflict and aid anti North Korean forces. Currently each fleet consists of around 50 ships.

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[Kilean]

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Garrison II at the moment is debating wheither or not to deploy the 4th, 7th, 12th fleets to the conflict and aid anti North Korean forces. Currently each fleet consists of around 50 ships.

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Lady Taylor
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uuh...this is invite-only, and you should post in the OOC thread before doing anything here

[Garrison II]

Someone could've told me that before.... How come it didn't say invite only in the 1st thread either?

OOC: You could try reading the first part of the first post...

[Garrison II]

Sorry I'll shut up now.

[Lunatic Retard Robots]

Near Gumi:

The 2nd Brigade of the 56th Uhlans division watches as the Drapoel troops advance, trying to cross the river with light tanks.

Lt. Colonel Tourville watches through binoculars as the first few tanks try the water. His gunner watches the tanks through his thermal, rangefinding, all-around very good gunsight.

"You may fire when ready!"

A 120mm round zooms out of the AMX-10RCT's cannon, headed for a Drapoel light tank.

Tourville puts down his binoculars and takes the RBS-56 BILL launcher on the turret. He aims for a tank with a group of troops behind it. The missile leaps out of the launcher with a bolt of fire, streaking towards its target. It sends a spike of molten metal down into the tank, and probably some of the infantry too.

The other AMX-10RCTs do likewise. Camoflauged on their side of the river, the 29 wheeled tanks open up on the Drapoel troops as they near the river.

On the sides of the tank positions, the paratroops themselves begin to open up.

12.7mm rounds tear through foliage, headed towards the soldiers of the People's Army.

Captain Taylor opens up with his L1A1, followed by the rest of his troops. They attempt to hold back the Drapoel advance until reinforcements can arrive.

North of Pusan, the 1st AEF sloshes onto shore. The port being too crowded, the armored force lands directly onto the shore. LCUs and LCMs first deposit 200 of the big, powerful MBT-5Bs. The engineer's vehicles are called upon to drag more than one out of the surf. The 1st AEF, the first AEF to be re-equipped with SEPs, deploys 700 of the excellent APCs. About 1 out of 10 are turreted, but most are equipped with an M2 and a missile launcher. They carry a total of 7,000 troops inside themselves. Behind them comes a group of G6 wheeled howitzers, and behind them a large force of trucks.

The 1st AEF is the picture of efficency, getting off the landing craft and onto roads headed inland very quickly. However, they do not move far inland. In the end, it is decided that the 2nd AEF will rush up to Gumi area, and the 1st AEF would drive up to Yeongdeok.

At the 2nd AEF's positions, infantrymen pile into trucks and APCs, after hastily dismantling their mortars and MGs. The tanks back out of their positions and begin the drive towards Gumi.

The 1st AEF's unit commanders get their columns moving. The Heavy tanks lead the column up the road. The SEPs and trucks follow, some of the SEPs equipped with AAA and SAM batteries. Why they did not just land on Yeongcheon, they did not know. Bad planning. At least they would help hold the line. On the coast, the 1st AEF's naval support advances up the coast with their troops. An Iowa moves along with them, ready to lend its 16 inch guns to the fray.

Ah well.

From the carriers, a strike group assembles. The 50 remaining Jaguars all take off, escorted by 30 MiG-29KIs.

They fly towards the Gumi battle area, and contact the FAC.

"This is snapdragon flight calling FAC. Repeat, snapdragon flight calling FAC."

[Promise of Joshua]

Battle Fleet Peiper arrives off Pusan:

14 CVNs: Judah, Reuben, Midian, Simeon, Nathan, Asher, Levi, Solomon, Jehu, Jericho, Elisha, Elijah, Rahab, Jordan
*standard aircraft compliment includes squadrons of F14d and RF-11d Raysian Archangel aircraft plus SH-60 Seahawk ASW helocopters, S-3B multi-purpose Vikings, E-2C AWACS Hawkeyes and EA-6B EW Prowlers. **
45 Ticonderoga Class CGs
60 Arleigh Burke Class DDGs
8 Spruance Class DDs
26 OH Perry FFGs
7 AOE Fleet Resupply vessels
8 As-39 Sub tenders
2 MHC-51 Osprey Minesweepers

20 Seawolf Class SSN attack subs *submerged on outer listening stations*

The following landing force begins debarking with the Pusan perimeter from 50 T-AKR/LMSR Watson (Bob Hope) class transports and 2 Rt-S10 ALCTs(specs to follow in additional post):

11th Lite Armored Corps (from Dibujante theatre)
11th Armored Div(20,000men 400 m1a2 Abrams 500 Bradleys)
13th Mechanized Div(20,000men, 250 M1a2 Abrams 600 Bradleys)

3rd Armored Corps:
12th and 16th Armored Divisions (20,000men 400 m1a2 Abrams 500 Bradleys each)
3rd Mechanized Div (20,000men, 250 M1a2 Abrams 600 Bradleys)

9th Armored Corps:
8th and 9th Armored Divisions (20,000men 400 m1a2 Abrams 500 Bradleys each)
6th Mechanized Division(20,000men, 250 M1a2 Abrams 600 Bradleys)

4th and 5th Seabee Regiments(3,000men each plus equipment)

Offloading from 12 Wasp Class LHAs and 12 San Antonio Class LPDs and 1 Rt-S10 ALCT:

1st and 2nd Marine Divisions (20,000men plus 330 MAFV-1 Borden Medium Battle Tanks each) The majority of the tanks are flame equipped and the squad weapons are M249s and extended range flamethrowers(one each per squad plus M16s etc).
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Details on the Borden.

Vehicle MAFV-1 Borden Quantity: (55 each for Marine Regiments)
Crew 4 (Driver, Gunner, Commander, Loader)
Length 6.45 Meters
Width 2.72 Meters
Height 2.13 Meters
Weight 30 Metric Tonnes
Speed
Road 78 kph
Combat 57 kph
Range 300 miles
Engine
1 x General Motors DRV-9a Water-cooled 4 cycle diesel
Armament
1 x Viking Military Technologies 130mm 1st Generation Electro-Thermal-Chemical Cannon
1 x Saco Defense Industries Mk 19 Grenade Machine Gun
1 x Fabrique National M240G 7.62 x 51mm Machine Gun
1 x Hughes EX34 25mm Chain Gun
1 x Laser Target Designator
2 x Four-Tube Thunderbolt IR/Laser-Guided ATGM Launchers
Ammunition
12 x ATG-1 Mjolnir ATGMs
30 x 130mm ETC Rounds
1,000 x 7.62mm NATO
800 x .50 BMG
Defensive Systems
Layered Ceramic/Composite Alloy Armour with 3rd Gen ERA on forward surfaces and on turret.
Laser/Infrared/Microwave Threat Receptors
Charybdis MkI Laser/Infrared/Microwave Countermeasures Suite
Triphammer Active Intercept System
Kevlar Mine Matt integral to crew deck
Fully NBC-Rated Life Support System
Life Support rated for operation to -48 degrees C
15-Canister Smoke Grenade System
Anti-Spall Coating on all surfaces
Engine mounted forward of driver for enhanced crew survivability
Optics/Sensors
Low-Light Systems for the entire crew
Turret-Mounted IR Sight for both Gunner and Commander
Full Telescopic Magnification on both Natural- and Low-Light systems
Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) Millimeter Wave Radar Set
Computer-Aided Target Recognition system
Communications
Real-Time Command, Control, and Communications (RTC3) Data Link
- GPS Moving Map w' position and status of connected RTC3 units
- Connected to Auto-Diagnostic system for transmission of unit status
- Zip-Squeal Text/Data Transmission Capable
Universal Adaptor Port for Wire Communications
Hardwired Intercom System
High-Frequency Encrypted Radio
Other Systems
Automated Diagnostic System
Enhanced Fire Control System
Unit Cost $6.1M
Prime Contractor Kotterdam Motor Corporation

Notes

While the MBT-3A1 was designed for sheer firepower, the MAFV-1 has been designed from the ground up for portability. MAFV stands for Medium Armoured Fighting Vehicle. It is a tough, agile weapons platform capable of packing a punch while not being too heavy to deploy in a hurry. The MAFV-1 was designed to meet the following requirements: Its dimensions and weight must be such that one can be transported aboard a C-130, two aboard an LCAC or a C-17, and four aboard a C-5 Galaxy. The last mobility requirement can indeed be reached, but requires that the vehicles be loaded on pallets, as they are just barely narrow enough to fit two abreast.

Weaponry:

Although designed to be less than half the weight and marginally smaller, the MAFV-1 doesn't skimp overly much on firepower relative to the MBT-3A1. In fact, it mounts the same 130mm ETC cannon, maintaining a kill-range of five kilometers, with an accurate range of seven kilometers. Like the weapon on the MBT-3A1, it is more than capable of firing HEAT, AP Canister, HE-FRAG, APFSDS-T, and the 130mm ETC version of the RAKE-T, as well as the newly designed Smart Top Attack Kinetic Energy, or STAKE round. On top of all that, it can fire the new ATG-1 Mjolnir anti-tank missile from the barrel.

For anti-materiel applications, the MAFV-1 carries a 25mm cannon by Hughes mounted coaxially to the main gun, as well as a Mk. 19 Grenade Machine Gun from Saco Industries as the commander's weapon mounted in an armoured cupola to grant him a measure of protection while firing it. The loader's weapon, a M240G machine gun by Fabrique National in the 7.62mm NATO, is designed to be quickly unshipped in case of the destruction of the tank to provide extra firepower for the crew.

Two four-tube Thunderbolt missile pods are mounted, one on either side of the turret to grant further anti-armour firepower above and beyond that already supplied by the main gun. In case of critical damage to the pods, or the expenditure of their rockets, both pods are entirely disposable, and may be ejected.

Defensive Measures:

The MAFV-1 mounts a quantity of layered ceramic/composite armour sufficient to defeat up to a 120mm cannon shot within its kill range even without the ERA mounted on the forward surfaces and the turret. No armour is impregnable, though, and a point blank HEAT or APFSDS-T shot still stands a good chance of killing the tank.

Rather than relying entirely on its potent armour, the MAFV-1 also mounts the new Triphammer Active Intercept System, and a full suite of laser, microwave, and IR threat receptors and countermeasures. Also, the forward-mounted diesel engine provides a measure of protection for the crew in the case of a penetrating hit, as well as being well-insulated against heat, and exceptionally well-muffled to decrease engine noise. The composition of the aerosol "Smoke" grenades has been changed so that the cloud not only blocks line of sight visually, but it obscures infrared devices. While the enemy will certainly know that there is a tank somewhere in that cloud of smoke, it lowers the probability of a hit when they are forced to fire blind. As always with KMC-designed vehicles, the MAFV-1 is equipped with a full NBC-rated life support system to protect its crew from environmental hazards.

Fire Control:

The fire control system on the MAFV-1 is based largely on the one currently employed on the MBT-3A1, allowing it to track, target, and engage multiple moving targets, even fast moving ones such as helicopters. This can be done in defilade, on the move, at rest, and even while swimming. The targeting computer is linked into a sophisticated analysis system with an adaptive database that will even suggest an aimpoint and round type based on the past observed performance of similar targets in combat situations. Equipped with a so-called AI similar to that in some of the more sophisticated computer games, the analyzer will actually learn the weaknesses of a specific type of target given enough exposure and is, of course, pre-programmed with the known weaknesses of many standard targets.
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Battleship Group. Taking up offshore firing positions to support the perimeter and approaches to same

Battleships Padre and Raider
2 Padre(Yamato) Class Battleships (AEGIS) First turret forward of superstructure removed along with most secondary and AA guns and replaced with some modern tech. Superstructure modified to resemble Ticongeroga Class crusier(on a much larger scale) "Padre" and "Raider"

Speed:30 knots
Crew:2500
6 18' Guns in two turrets 1 forward, 1 aft
16 5' Guns in 8 twin turrets
8 20mm Phalanx CIWS AA systems
40 Tomahawks TASM/TALM Cruise missiles in 10 quad launchers
20 Harpoon missiles in 5 quad launchers
Mk 7 AEGIS system with 2 MK 41 VLS systems installed where old turret was.

escorts:

6 Ticonderoga CGs
8 Arleigh Burke DDGs
1 AOE Fleet Supply vessel
1 MHC Minesweeper
2 Seawolf Class SSNs

Blockade Group

36 Kilo Desiel Attack Subs taking up station with orders to practice unrestricted submarine warfare against non allied vessels and/or blockade runners

18 Oscar II Missile SSGNs and 6 Virginia Class SSNs deployed outside blockade line off Pusan and submerged (Senior Capt Zuriach commanding)

The Typhoon II SSBN Agamemnon and OHIO class SSBN Benjamin

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Leaving Netayana for Kilean

The CVN Joshua, CV Caleb, and the Iowa (AEGIS) Battleship "Jericho City" with

10 Ticongeroga CGs
12 Arleigh Burke DDGs
8 Spruance class DDs
32 OHPerry FFGs
2 AOE Fleet Supply ships
2 MHC-51 Minesweepers
1 AS-39 Sub Tender
6 Virginia Class SSNs
48 T-AKR LMSR Watson class transports (empty)
2 RT-S10 Amphibeous Landing Craft Transports (specs below, also empty)
12 Tarawa LHA and 12 Austin LPDs(empty)

RT-s10 Specs
The Ferrussian Coalition of Defense Agencies (FCDA) recently announced the launch of a radical new sea transport: the RT-S10. The colossal ship is a platform for any major sea-based invasion, with an integrated LCAC (hovercraft) deployment and recovery system and a maximum capacity of 2,176 M1A1 Abrams tanks*.

The transport holds up to 60 LCAC hovercrafts (sold with the transport) and the 4 elevators can altogether lower 20 hovercrafts every 10 minutes. With 16 decks for tank/personell/truck transport, and another 2 for hovercraft storage, the space limitations are few. With space in the back for fuel and food (see schematic below), the transport is largely self-sustaining, at least for short periods of time. Additional supplies are recommended for any extended voyage, as is heavy escort.

The transport is armored quite substantially, as the capacity means that losing just one transport could be potentially devastating. It is equipped with a helipad, RO/RO ramps in the front for faster loading/unloading of tanks when at a major port, and quarters for the hovercraft and tank/truck crews. Loading and unloading MUST take place in relatively calm waters.

The ships are being produced as quickly as possible, but it takes quite some time to complete a single vessel. With the included 60 LCAC hovercrafts, an RT-S10 transport costs $6 billion.

Ship Schematic (IMPORTANT)

COST: $6 BILLION

SPECIFICATIONS
Length: 712 ft.
Beam: 273 ft.
Weight (empty): 73,345 LT
Propulsion: Slow speed diesel engines
Screws: 4
Waterline (at recommended max. cargo): 50 ft.
Crew Compliment: 182

Speed
Cruising (empty): 16.2 knots
Cruising (near-full): 13.9 knots
Max. (empty): 16.85 knots
Max. (near-full): 14.4 knots

Capacity
Recommended max. cargo: 197,320 LT / 220,998.5 tons
Overload max. cargo: 305,586 LT / 342,256.5 tons
Area per cargo deck (90%): 63,099 sq. ft.
Area per cargo deck (max.): 70,110 sq. ft.
Cargo decks: 16



ooc note: I figured out that an LHA/LPD combo would hold about 3,000 or so Marines and that 6 Watson class LMSRs would hold a full division of my Army (20,000men) I got the info used in those calculations from the globalsecurity.org site. I use the RT-S10s for equipment for my divisions.

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In the skies above the ROK aboard a U2

We've been told to transmit real time information about troops movements we can detect. We may not be of real help except looking for things behiind known enemy lines as we don't want to transmit firing info on our allies

Yeah, we should be able to pick up supply columns or groups of aircraft fueling and/or heading to launch points as well

[Hudecia]

OOC: although this is all really interesting POJ ... shouldn't it be in the OOC thread so we don't get this thread all confused?