Date/Time: 07-04-2018 / 00:00:00 Zulu
Location: Apra Harbour, Guam

Introduction

The massive Chinese (and then later North Korean) missile attacks were devastating physically and mentally to the United States and its allies in the Pacific. Critical airbase infrastructure and significant numbers of aircraft were destroyed on the ground on Okinawa, Guam, the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese homeland. The forward-based aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was sunk with thousands lost and its ruptured reactor was now a looming environmental disaster off Japan. Japanese and South Korean population centers struck by North Korean missiles were overwhelmed, rescuing citizens from crumbling and burning buildings in population centers that most missiles seemed to target. The overall toll was massive and the modern media had captured most of these events live, and along with social media broadcast them almost in real-time worldwide. The results were destruction of key assets, chaos, panic and fury. China and her belligerent ally had struck first decisively.

China and North Korea did not go unscathed. The American preprogrammed counterattacks had in many cases struck, although with the benefit of knowing what was coming many of the sea launched Tomahawk missiles were intercepted or the targeted sites were evacuated ahead of time. The citizens of both nations were actually informed of the Tomahawk attacks but Chinese intelligence shaped the message coming from its controlled media to make it look like it was a "preemptive attack by the Americans" which both governments had responded to in a decisive manner. They then stated that their military was now moving to remove the American threat to China in the region completely.

The world’s reaction to a sudden great war between superpowers was extreme. Most national governments retreated to secured bunkers to gather information and assess their positions. Militaries went to high alert and in some cases mobilizations were started. Economic markets sunk to near crash lows and trade came to a halt. Populations clung to social media and broadcast news and in some cases actually celebrated the destruction in the streets. The world order was clearly shaken and nobody knew what it would evolve into.

The American military was battered, and cyber- and space attacks had commenced disrupting communications and creating more chaos. One message was received by all though, and this was “Pick yourselves up and get back into the fight. This is where the counterattack begins.”

 

Scenario Notes:

This is a single-sided ASW oriented battleset scenario with a duration of 8 hours.

I have modified some existing USV boats in the database to act as hunter/killer ASW and MIW assets. There is good evidence the US is pursuing this but in some cases the actual models do not appear to have been selected.

Be sure to look at your CUSV configurations (sensors, weapons, ships, minehunting equipment) to get an understanding how each is configured and develop a plan.

If you want to better model USV logic in your game session use the mission editor. It is probably close to the behaviors and logic as you will be preprogramming stuff and not driving real-time using a plotted mission.