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Chapter 4 by Nevermore Nevermore

Information.

Weapons, Tactics and Strategies

Who knew that we in the ARSE Department would have to do so much research in topics we weren't remotely interested in? We gave most of our research into the hands of some super-diligent research assistent, and as such we are not completely sure of the exactness of the information. Then again, if we wanted it completely right, we wouldn't have given it to the poor assistent. We will not take responsability if things turn out to be completely false.

6.1. Alex - Tanks and Thanks

The French version of the Javelin is the MMP. Though France uses both the Javelin and the MMP, having one in every platoon, would mean a sudden and drastic increase in national production. The cost of a Javelin is about 250.000 dollar. Production would have to be nationalized in order to deliver them at minimal cost. Since France is here the main deliverer of all equipment, nationalizing factories and **** labor could mean future problems with its population.

The Russian tank most encountered would be the T-90, a fearsome tank, barely rivaled by other nations. It has anti-radar counter measures, as well as anti-ballistic rockets in its arsenal.

The medium transport helicopter here mentioned would be the French Airbus Helicopters A215, capable of rescue missions or carrying up to 15 to 20 people. Due to roads being clogged by refugees, all transport of military personnel would have to happen by air.

Denial of access is one of the strategies in a war. One nation can blow up their own infrastructure to deny access to their country. Austria and Switzerland will most - or at least should - certainly do so in the event of war.

Furthermore, in countries with a lot of rivers, they will choose their lines of defense to be rivers and blow up every bridge they can. It will delay the enemy and offer valuable time to organize defenses.

Asymmetrical defense will be one of the only options for an invasion this size, besides denial of access. Set up frontlines beforehand, defend, then retreat, where in the meantime another division sets up prepared frontlines behind the first enemy lines. And so on, until you have enough retreated troops behind a last fortified barrier, in this case the Rhine.

16.1 Alex - More training and leadership

German artillery was mentioned in this chapter for the first time. Probably the Panzerhaubitze 2000, one of the most powerful conventional artillery systems deployed in the 2010s. It is capable of a very high rate of fire; in burst mode it can fire three rounds in nine seconds, ten rounds in 56 seconds, and can—depending on barrel heating—fire between ten and thirteen rounds per minute continuously. The PzH 2000 has automatic support for up to five rounds of Multiple Rounds Simultaneous Impact (MRSI). The replenishment of shells is automated. Two operators can load sixty shells and propelling charges in less than twelve minutes.

Germany should have about a 108 in active service. If it is one of the few but most fiercesome weapons the Germans have in their arsenal, it is this one.

19.1 Alex - Getting priorities in order

Blanketing an entire strip of land, 50 to 100 km wide, from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea with radio-active materials, to create a huge denial of access zone... Not sure how it would work, but it can't be done with dirty bombs, as far as I know. Perhaps the US could spread, or detonate explosives with, very high radio-active isotopes with a limited half-life, such as Californium-248 or even Cf-252. The mass casualty rate would be huge though, so to limit the number somewhat, leaflets would have to mass-dropped before destroying the entire area and all the people living in it.

48.1 Alex - Presents

Mentioned are the Tunnel Rats, an unofficial specialty of US combat engineers during the Vietnam war. The Viet Cong used extensive underground tunnels to live in, to transport men, food and equipment during that war. Since in the immersion program Alex and his section started to dig their way into safety, the Tunnel Rat was the opposite side of what they were becoming. After the Vietnam war, tunnel rats were used in the Russian-Afghan war, and also in the Israeli-Palestinian ongoing struggles. During the Russian-Afghan war, Russians discovered that Afghans were perfectly able to use their age old canal systems to get water into the caves, a engineering feat Alex used to fortify and specialize his ultimate bunker design during the radiation period (see 59.1 and further). Viet Cong were prepared to encounter the Tunnel Rats by booby traps, and tunnels that were often able to flood under water, or at least very crooked to hide behind and surprise the infiltrators. In that mind set, Alex had tried to prepare his cave system to protect the middle chamber, connecting both side chambers.

The 7.62x51mm NATO round is one of the calibers that could have been used in the third world war. It can be fired by multiple types of guns and rifles, the section of Alex used at the time, which were probably - but I am merely guessing here - the FN - SCAR H PR (High Precision Rifle) and the FN - SCAR H Mk2 (**** Rifle).

59.1 Alex - Radiation.

The Borei Class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine is one of the latest Russian submarines of which there more in production. As far as we know, they now have six of them. Aside from able to fire ship to ship torpedoes, its main function is being part of the nuclear ballistic missile triad. That triad consists of firing the nuclear ballistic missiles from the ground (missile silos or artillery based), from the air (via e.g. bombers) or from the sea (via e.g. submarines). Since there is a possibility to destroy the missile silos with bombardment or cyber-attacks, to destroy the air planes while they are still on the ground (or in the air if they are not stealth based), a nuclear-powered submarine can lurk in the sea forever and only fire the missiles when needed. It is presumed in this immersion program that the President of the Russian Federation will choose such a submarine as base of central command. Doing so, he will have easy access to the nuclear weapons on board, be reasonable safe, could isolate the crew from hearing too much news about his own nation, or even single-handedly fire the missiles himself.

It is known this submarine class can fire a maximum payload of sixteen RSM-56 Bulava nuclear missiles, each armed with six multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads. Databases of the time are somewhat unclear if the MIRV warheads could target effectively different locations. It is assumed in this immersion program that they could not. The function of the MIRV development was to avoid shooting down a single warhead destined to a single location. The warhead would split high in the air and come down as a sort of cluster artillery munition, targeting the destination with several smaller warheads at the same time, so interception from the ground is impossible. SDI (Space Defense Initiative) could offer a solution, firing lasers at the ballistic missile before they split up. The SDI at the time was only in development if not only just a pipedream by the USA.

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