Taiwanese Islands
11-01-2005, 09:17
Admiral Shimadu watched as his forces finally sailed into position. For this assault the Commonwealth have put together a total of 6 Carrier Battle Groups, 4 Carrier Strike Groups, and more than a hundred more submarines under the Strategic Forces Command.
3 CBG and 2 CSG are stationed on either side of the Hawaiian islands; 50 submarines are stationed to the north and another 50 to the south. A Marine Corps Task Force, carrying the 5th Division, is still sailing towards the area, several hundreds of kilometres behind the Carrier Groups on the western Side at location Pearls Beta.
11:30 a.m. Commonwealth Naval Forces begins to prepare. All submarines started surfacing, the cruisers adjusted their positions, flight crews finished their last checks, and alert status went to DefCon1. No orders were issued by the Admiral; all the captains knew what to do already.
11:59 a.m. Major Matsu Yokosaki turned towards Admiral Yoshitsugu Shimadu. This is it. The last chance to turn back. "Sir? Awaiting commands, sir."
Taking a deep breath, Shimadu watched the clock tick aboard the bridges of his Blue Ridge Class command ship.
"Operation Pearl Harbour is a go." He spoke into the mic.
Three seconds later, at exactly noon Hawaiian times, all submarines and cruisers began firing off their cruise missiles. The first wave will hit the Parlim military installations within 15 minutes.
The second wave will arrive much sooner after that, the Admiral noted as he watched the second salvo of missiles shooting off into the sky.
Prior to the attack the Commonwealth High Command has determined that there was to be no nuclear weapons involved. However, all existing nuclear missiles are instead fitted with traditional explosives, and these are among the first to arrive in Hawaii.
Major Yokosaki watched in awe as the whole sky is filled by cruise missiles before her. Never before has a bombardment of such sizes been conducted. Over the next hour, a total of 9,966 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles and 27,072 MIRV from Trident and Makeyev Ballistic Missiles will be launched against targets across the Hawaiian archipelago. The Fusion and Geothermal Generators are the first targets; next the Airstrips and Hangar Facilites, the Housing Facilities and Barracks, and lastly the Naval Facilites and Manufacturing Plants. The only place that is not targeted is the Military R&D Laboratory.
And this is only the beginning.
3 CBG and 2 CSG are stationed on either side of the Hawaiian islands; 50 submarines are stationed to the north and another 50 to the south. A Marine Corps Task Force, carrying the 5th Division, is still sailing towards the area, several hundreds of kilometres behind the Carrier Groups on the western Side at location Pearls Beta.
11:30 a.m. Commonwealth Naval Forces begins to prepare. All submarines started surfacing, the cruisers adjusted their positions, flight crews finished their last checks, and alert status went to DefCon1. No orders were issued by the Admiral; all the captains knew what to do already.
11:59 a.m. Major Matsu Yokosaki turned towards Admiral Yoshitsugu Shimadu. This is it. The last chance to turn back. "Sir? Awaiting commands, sir."
Taking a deep breath, Shimadu watched the clock tick aboard the bridges of his Blue Ridge Class command ship.
"Operation Pearl Harbour is a go." He spoke into the mic.
Three seconds later, at exactly noon Hawaiian times, all submarines and cruisers began firing off their cruise missiles. The first wave will hit the Parlim military installations within 15 minutes.
The second wave will arrive much sooner after that, the Admiral noted as he watched the second salvo of missiles shooting off into the sky.
Prior to the attack the Commonwealth High Command has determined that there was to be no nuclear weapons involved. However, all existing nuclear missiles are instead fitted with traditional explosives, and these are among the first to arrive in Hawaii.
Major Yokosaki watched in awe as the whole sky is filled by cruise missiles before her. Never before has a bombardment of such sizes been conducted. Over the next hour, a total of 9,966 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles and 27,072 MIRV from Trident and Makeyev Ballistic Missiles will be launched against targets across the Hawaiian archipelago. The Fusion and Geothermal Generators are the first targets; next the Airstrips and Hangar Facilites, the Housing Facilities and Barracks, and lastly the Naval Facilites and Manufacturing Plants. The only place that is not targeted is the Military R&D Laboratory.
And this is only the beginning.