As It Happens: Sino-Korean War
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AP Newswire 1800 Korea Local Time
PacCom Command on recent Offensive Counter Air Operations: “Less than Successful”
The new Sino-Korean Conflict has taken a dramatic turn as aerial combat intensified over the Korean Peninsula in the late afternoon hours. PacCom commanders have described the losses as “worrying”.
In a large offensive operation taking place at 1400 hours, a multi squadron sortie was directed against the southern half of the Pyongyang Air Defense zone in an attempt to open the capital to strategic bombing raids. UN Planners have commented that there are anywhere from 60-75 mobile Buk SAM launchers within the Pyongyang Zone alone and rooting them out is costly and difficult.
“These Buk copies, when teamed with low altitude triple A like the Tunguska, are absolutely deadly. These systems can fire on the move and hide in places where they are almost impossible to see from the air. There are a couple of Tor batteries in Pyongyang as well, so that adds to the difficulty.”
US Air Force officials have stated that most of the S-300 systems have been put out of commission by UN attack packages. Lessening the danger of high altitude strike missions but at great cost in aircraft, as these SA-10 sites are themselves heavily defended by swarms of Buk and 2S6 weapon systems and fighter aircraft patrols.
To make things worse for the afternoon phase, SKA forces managed to successfully launch a strike against Osan Airbase just south of Seoul. This is a heavy blow for UN forces, as there are only a half dozen or so airfields capable of efficient and sustained combat operations and the loss of any one of them for a significant amount of time can cripple UN war efforts in the air.
“Osan is just wiped out, damage to airbase facilities were light but the runway is just wrecked. We have no idea how long it will take to repair it. Air operations have ceased at Osan airbase for the time being.”
With the poor performance of the Pyongyang strike, and the successful SKA attack on Osan this afternoon. The war has dramatically returned to a stalemate where at noon, planners were confident that SKA forces were being successfully attrited with minimal UN losses.
“We’re just stunned by the pace and tempo of this conflict. It is unlike anything we have faced in our careers. Force levels have plummeted this afternoon as the SKA successfully manged to repel our air defense campaign with minimal damage and then the strike on Osan. This is a whole new war. The only good news is the Chinese losses are just as high, and it looks like we’re sitting at near parity over the evening and overnight phases.”
On the ground, events are at a stalemate with ground forces along the DMZ holding, or withdrawing in good order from larger forces when necessary. Allied forces are hampered by a lack of air superiority allowing A-10 and helicopters to operate with impunity in the FLOT. Key bridges have been struck by UN Forces, slowing down the assault as much as possible.
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Totally cool, S.
Put a carrier off the coast and sign me up! -
There is no way North Korea makes it to 2035
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Well in this scenario, they don’t. Kim is overthrown in 2025 and replaced by a DPRK General who is a puppet of Beijing and signs an alliance giving China full access to the North Korean territory. Something like that has to happen. China will never let a unified Korea ruled from Seoul on it’s border.
Think of it as artistic license for a fictionalized account of my current campaign. lol
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Very cool idea.
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Hey, Tom Clancy made his name writing entire books of fictionalized accounts of his Harpoon sessions with Dan Brown. Red October was originally a Harpoon scenario thought up by Brown. Red Storm Rising was also a Harpoon scenario they invented to play.
50 Shades of Gray started as Twilight Fan Fiction. The Martian was originally serialized blog fiction before fans convinced that author to publish.
The Falcon Campaign is an ideal setting and creates ready made events to imagine and write. Who knows where this could end up. The computer could write the book for me. Finish the campaign, collect the news accounts and notes and materials and edit it all together into something with a plot and characters. Who knows… I’m just exercising my imagination. If the community enjoys it and I make it through the campaign, there are plenty of other campaigns to mine for creative writing material. Maybe I’ll do the balkans next.
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Midnight, Korean Local Time
Associated Press - Night has fallen across the Korean Peninsula and midnight has come marking the end of the first day of this continuing war. Combat operations in the air continue, although at much less intensity than earlier in the day as heavy work loads and casualties take their toll on machines and men. UN Commanders are upbeat and confident. UN commanders have also stated that air superiority in the area around the DMZ has been achieved, although it is tenuous and possibly even temporary. They credit new tactics developed combined with new weapons to turn the tide against the SKA.
"We came up with this concept called a SATCAP, or SATuration Combat Air Patrol. Basically, we have identified several areas around the DMZ where enemy strike packages tend to congregate. Once these areas were identified, we sent in air strikes to sanitize a wide area of all anti-aircraft artillery and SAMs using Joint Stand Off Weapons. Those weapons have really made a difference as we are able to attack from much safer ranges. After the air defenses in these areas were cleaned up. We sent in large packages of fighter aircraft. Anywhere from 16-32 Aircraft packed into a box about 50 miles by 50 miles and 30000 feet high arranged in layers 10,000 ft high. The area is hence saturated with allied fighter aircraft at all altitudes. These operations lasted anywhere from 2-4 hours due to the intensity and numbers of aircraft involved meaning that this tactic cannot be sustained for longer than a few hours. However, SKA forces have suffered very heavy casualties as a result of the new tactics and our own losses have leveled off. They simply could not put enough fighters into the air after we knocked out those airbases to contest the airspace once we decided to take it.
The fact that every airfield in the southern half of North Korea has been rendered inoperable has dramatically slowed SKA air ops against our forces, and while casualties remain heavy, particularly in several squadrons that have been heavily engaged over the previous day. Some reinforcements have arrived to replenish our losses. The SKA forces are attempting the same, but losses have so far outstripped their ability to reinforce. Our pilots are simply doing outstanding work."
UN Intelligence officials have estimated that the SKA airforce has been heavily hit, and are estimating somewhere around 60-65% casualties have been inflicted on the SKA air forces.
“They’re hurting. No doubt about it they are hurting bad. But we have a very long way to go.”
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you are a story teller. learn to operate a camera sir. When you get paid, remember this post :). Enjoyed reading it, was waiting for mexican armada to show up in battle mechs
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North Korea will be here for a lonnnnggg time, they have played their hand as well as it could be played as bad as it is.
they realize that south korea will never have nukes, and would never allow the US to invade because they have everything to lose and shit to gain.also they would never invade unless they had the next 50 moves preplanned, expect a korean invasion (if it ever occurs) to be thorough with little room for an immediate response.
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Eagerly waiting for more!