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28-02-2005, 03:19
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Mississippian Forces in Western Sahara had been amassing strength for months, indeed they'd been rehearsing for this operation for years and now it was finally going down, H hour had arrived. The invasion was to be spearheaded by 6 parachute divisions from Mississippian Egypt, along with 4 parachute brigades from Western Sahara, after they seized the most important airfields and locations, light infantry would be airlifted in via C-130s and C-17s.
As for the armored forces tasked with the invasion, three Republican Guard Armored and two Republican Guard Mechanized Divisions had been moved into Western Sahara over the last few months, and they were to make the main thrust from Western Sahara through Morocco, taking all the major cities and then reaching the shores of the Mediterranean. The operation was going to rely on surprise, overwhelming force, speed, and superior tactical maneuver, constantly maintaining the initiative, and overwhelming air superiority.
Aerial Group XIV had been designated with providing aerial support for the invasion. They had at their disposal some four thousand combat helicopters and two thousand combat aircraft. Of those, some three hundred were MiG-41s, the bulk were F-22s, F-16s, MiG-31s, and Su-25s.
Overall command for the invasion had been placed in the hands of Field Marshal Reginald Smith, who was personally leading one of the RG Armored Divisions tasked with making the initial opening offensive thrust across the border as soon as the first paratroopers were jumping out of their planes.
The assaults would be proceeded by the brief but intense aerial and artillery barrage, and even naval artillery support, from a dozen or so battleships and six or seven dozen destroyers which were near Morocco. They would pound key defenses with cruise missiles and other precision munitions, to help clear the way for the invasion forces to make their play.
Western Saharan Commonwealth forces were also committing six infantry and twelve reserve infantry brigades to the assault, they were tasked with pinning in place all Moroccan border forces, while three Commonwealth mechanized brigades and two Commonwealth armored brigades, maneuvered in a double envelopment against them, and surrounded them, leaving them totally helpless and cutoff from all reinforcements and relief.
The T-98s were rumbling through the sands along the border region, the last parts of Western Sahara still covered by a significant amount of sand, except for the coastal beaches. Most of Western Sahara was lush and green, but not the border “badlands”. But it didn’t matter, soon they’d have all of Morocco and could continue the irrigation plans up into the most northern parts of Western Sahara without worrying about angering the Moroccan government, as they wouldn’t be around to anger anymore.
As the sun continued to beat down hard against all the rednecks (they ran out of sun block and now they are all indeed rednecks) amassed for the invasion the appointed minute finally arrived. A young Mississippian lieutenant about four miles the border looked down at his watch and then shouted, “Fire!”
The immediate result was that his battery of four 155mm howitzers immediately began to lob shells across the border with a vengeance. The loud booms and the roar as flashes of orange and yellow erupted from the barrels of the howitzers, the scene was being played out all along the border regions as over five thousand howitzers and mortars sang their chorus of death against the Moroccan border garrison forces.
Simultaneously, 400 Su-25s, who were already airborne and just waiting for the go word, pounced on any and all Moroccan “targets of opportunity” that they came across. They would carryout interdiction and close-air-support missions to help their forces. Any Moroccan units moving in the open would immediately become the targets of Su-25s and Mi-24s.
As this was happening, the first of the long stream of C-130s and C-17s, carrying the initial paratrooper waves, were crossing into Moroccan airspace, covered by a few dozen MiG-41s and nearly one hundred F-16s, they seemed to form a cloud that could nearly blot out the sun.
It had begun…
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Mississippian Forces in Western Sahara had been amassing strength for months, indeed they'd been rehearsing for this operation for years and now it was finally going down, H hour had arrived. The invasion was to be spearheaded by 6 parachute divisions from Mississippian Egypt, along with 4 parachute brigades from Western Sahara, after they seized the most important airfields and locations, light infantry would be airlifted in via C-130s and C-17s.
As for the armored forces tasked with the invasion, three Republican Guard Armored and two Republican Guard Mechanized Divisions had been moved into Western Sahara over the last few months, and they were to make the main thrust from Western Sahara through Morocco, taking all the major cities and then reaching the shores of the Mediterranean. The operation was going to rely on surprise, overwhelming force, speed, and superior tactical maneuver, constantly maintaining the initiative, and overwhelming air superiority.
Aerial Group XIV had been designated with providing aerial support for the invasion. They had at their disposal some four thousand combat helicopters and two thousand combat aircraft. Of those, some three hundred were MiG-41s, the bulk were F-22s, F-16s, MiG-31s, and Su-25s.
Overall command for the invasion had been placed in the hands of Field Marshal Reginald Smith, who was personally leading one of the RG Armored Divisions tasked with making the initial opening offensive thrust across the border as soon as the first paratroopers were jumping out of their planes.
The assaults would be proceeded by the brief but intense aerial and artillery barrage, and even naval artillery support, from a dozen or so battleships and six or seven dozen destroyers which were near Morocco. They would pound key defenses with cruise missiles and other precision munitions, to help clear the way for the invasion forces to make their play.
Western Saharan Commonwealth forces were also committing six infantry and twelve reserve infantry brigades to the assault, they were tasked with pinning in place all Moroccan border forces, while three Commonwealth mechanized brigades and two Commonwealth armored brigades, maneuvered in a double envelopment against them, and surrounded them, leaving them totally helpless and cutoff from all reinforcements and relief.
The T-98s were rumbling through the sands along the border region, the last parts of Western Sahara still covered by a significant amount of sand, except for the coastal beaches. Most of Western Sahara was lush and green, but not the border “badlands”. But it didn’t matter, soon they’d have all of Morocco and could continue the irrigation plans up into the most northern parts of Western Sahara without worrying about angering the Moroccan government, as they wouldn’t be around to anger anymore.
As the sun continued to beat down hard against all the rednecks (they ran out of sun block and now they are all indeed rednecks) amassed for the invasion the appointed minute finally arrived. A young Mississippian lieutenant about four miles the border looked down at his watch and then shouted, “Fire!”
The immediate result was that his battery of four 155mm howitzers immediately began to lob shells across the border with a vengeance. The loud booms and the roar as flashes of orange and yellow erupted from the barrels of the howitzers, the scene was being played out all along the border regions as over five thousand howitzers and mortars sang their chorus of death against the Moroccan border garrison forces.
Simultaneously, 400 Su-25s, who were already airborne and just waiting for the go word, pounced on any and all Moroccan “targets of opportunity” that they came across. They would carryout interdiction and close-air-support missions to help their forces. Any Moroccan units moving in the open would immediately become the targets of Su-25s and Mi-24s.
As this was happening, the first of the long stream of C-130s and C-17s, carrying the initial paratrooper waves, were crossing into Moroccan airspace, covered by a few dozen MiG-41s and nearly one hundred F-16s, they seemed to form a cloud that could nearly blot out the sun.
It had begun…