NationStates Jolt Archive

The Liberation of Bahrain was a neccessity. The Kingdom posed little threat to Hallad, or Hallad's assets, but was another bothersome little nation in the Middle East. Right now there were two types of nations in Middle East: those who sided with the Socialist power Hallad and those who sided with the Capitalist nation New Zambuda. Bahrain was no friend of the Worker's State.

It began with the assembly of a small group of marines. Only a division of Red Marines would be involved in securing Bahrain. A regiment of bombers would lead the initial strike, and a regiment of MiG-28 Flounder A's would destroy the Air Force of Bahrain while it was on the ground. Four Submarines would be in charge of destroying the enemies fleet.

After a week of assembly, the force was ready to strike. The MiG-28s took off with no problems, and were armed with AS-X-20 and AS-X-19 missiles. Both were upgrades of the AS-20 and AS-19 Soviet missiles. Each of the seventy-two planes carried five of each missile.

The mission went of swimmingly. An estimated eighty per cent of their airforce was destroyed and ninety-six per cent of their anti-air capabilities, and only one Hallad plane was destroyed. The bombers took off as the MiG-28s turned around. They were all Tu-95 Bears, armed with free falling bombs. They attacked two known army bases, and then the rest of the SAM sites. Escorting them was a regiment of Su-36 Imperator As. The Su-36's destroyed the scrambling enemy air force, taking five cassualties. One Yu-95 was also shot down.

The men boarded various craft as they prepared to move across the bay to the unwelcoming beaches of Bahrain.

A group of two destroyers and three frigates were assigned to stop the Halladi marines from reaching the beach. Unfortunatly, there were two state-of-the-art SSN's stalking the small fleet. SSN-1 and SSN-2 were both Beta class submarines. SSN-1 stalked the fleet from behind, while SSN-2 was several nautical miles south of them.

The gap in between the transports and the Bahrain fleet was closing. Any moment now the transports own defenses would be in range, but so would the frigates and destroyers. The Bahrain fleet used old Soviet weapons, no match for Halladi technology.

The Transports and Bahrain fleet came into range of each other. SSN-1 moved to flank speed, an impressive 45 knots. SSN-2 did not engage. They moved to the surface, and readied their VLS missiles. With SSN-1 going at such a speed, it was detected by the enemy fleet. However, they knew nothing of SSN-2.

Four wired torpedoes were loaded in SSN-1 and fired off. The captain ordered the wires cut. The enemy fleet began firing off ASW mortars, but this did not help. The noise from the mortars drowned out the noise of the torpedoes. Two frigates exploded. The first one to be hit simply slid into the water. Crew dived off their ship in order to be picked up, at some other date. The second frigate's crew had no chance; the ammunition storage was damaged and the ship's ammunition exploded.

SSN-2 launched it's missiles. By then SSN-1 had fled the scene with only slight damage from a mortar round that had exploded close to it. The missiles from SSN-2 aquired their targetsl, and the fleet was eliminated. The transports moved on, picking up the survivors of the Bahrain fleet. They pressed on to the shore.

SSN-1 and SSN-2 moved back to port. They needed to repair any damage they had and rearm. Then they would hunt down the rest of the enemies' fleet.

The men of the Red Marines hit the beaches. There was no resistance, all forces in that area had deserted or had been anhillated. The Marines set up their base camp, expecting heavy resistance from a force much larger than a brigade of men. Their transports had since left, and the men would be on their own, getting supplies dropped down by cargo planes, or flew in by helicopter, every twelve hours.

The first day was plagued by guerilla attacks, but the marines kept on moving. In two days they had taken half the island, and only had twelve dead, another twenty wounded. There were thrity deaths involved with the 2,000 logistcal troops in the area, and sixty wounded.

The battle at sea had gone well. Most of the remaining fleet had been destroyed, two frigates had defected to the Halladis. But, there were Halladi cassualties. Two Executor class missile corvettes were destroyed and a True Directorate class Frigate recieved severe damage.

(OOC: It's Earth RB, now. But if VE comes back, there will be Earth DA [which will be exactly the way it was before his deletion], and Earth RB.)

OOC: I know, but notice, I started this thread a while ago.