Putting Tactics In Motion.(MT/Closed/ATTN Sondria)

[Mahdah]

Putting Tactics In Motion.

A Collective Story of The War Against The Islamic People's Republic of Nasiriyah

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Prologue

The Mahdavian Embassy in Sassan the capitol of Nasiriyah was on peaceful terms with the populace since the embassy's establishment in 1984. When the President of Nasiriyah Saleem Abdullah met with the Messiah of the time and had agreed on a embassy being established in the capitol. Ambassador Tahir Katırcı sat in a confortable leather office chair provided by a local Sassan furniture company for good will to the Ambassador. Tahir was monitoring his computer looking through the news section of the Mahdavian state sponsored news website, the embassy was a three story office like building with the Ambassador on the third floor with a expansive glass window behind the Ambassador's office desk. The Embassy security was fifteen men strong from a security firm in Mahdah and lightly armed posted inside the building and outside at the entrance.

While Tahir was on the computer outside the embassy a slowly forming mob was approaching the embassy gates as the sound of engines was becomming clear, a tracked BMP-2 was comming towards the embassy entrance sitting ontop were Nasiriyah Soldiers sporting Type 56 assault rifles. Something wasn't right as the security personnel outside fell back towards the entrance to the building and the security official barged in to the Ambassador's office and told him the situation. Tahir looked out the window and saw the situation and opened his desk drawer and pulled a SIG P210 semi automatic pistol and had two other embassy security personnel accompany him.

The door was barricaded and the window covered from view as the tracked BMP-2 crashed into the gated entrance knocking it down while Nasiriyah soldiers hopped off the vehicle and a firefight erupted. Within seconds the firefight was a slaughter and the Nasiriyahi soldiers had mopped up the security outside while the ones that were left fired from the second floor. The BMP-2's 30mm autocannon lifted up pointing at the second story and fired off four rounds which blew the window and what concrete was their to bits, the security personnel inside were thrown out the window or blown into pieces.

A platoon size force of Nasiriyah soldiers stormed the embassy gunning down staff workers inside and made their way to the third floor. They found the ambassador's door barricaded and simply shot through the door with their assault rifles, the men inside and Tahir ducked for cover. The security inside shot back at the door injurying one of the soldiers as he was pulled away from the door. The soldiers outside the embassy then fired on the third story window as one of the security personnel was struck several times and bled out. Tahir crawled to the corner as the soldier finaly brought a axe and chopped the door away the remaining security personnel shot dead two of the soldiers who tried to get in, Tahir shot a third one as they rolled a grenade in the room.

The remaining security officer sheilded Tahir from the grenade taking most of the shrapnel and collapsed, Tahir was alone now as they stormed the room quickly disabling Tahir of his pistol and dragged him outside to the mob. The mob roared as their was a single tree that had been planted in the courtyard as rope was brought over and Tahir was hung from the tree, his body spasamed as one of the soldiers tugged on his legs to speed up the process. Tahir was dead and the mob entered the courtyard and the embassy itself looting and vandalizing the building. President Abdullah had shared the same fate when military soldiers stormed the Presidential palace and hung Abdullah from the palace balcony. General Abd-al-Rashid had couped the former President and installed a military dictatorship putting the country into martial law.

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Chapter I

Within the confines of the Imperial War Council assembly room, high ranking Warmarshals(General) had gathered together infront of a plasma television screen watching the events of the Embassy attack by the Military dictator, General Abd-al-Rashid who took over the country in a coup killing and hanging former President Abdullah from the presidential palace and then orchestrating the massacre of the Mahdavian embassy. Ambassador Tahir and the staff and security had been slaughtered and Tahir hung from a tree in the courtyard. Messiah Hakan Gavrilyuk condemed the attack and the overall coup of the former rightfull President and declared a state of war against Rashid's dictatorship soon afterwards. The council had convened to draw up plans of the overall conquest of Nasiriyah and putting a more friendlier government into power that would be similar to President Abdullah's administration.

"We have been convened here today to discuss the strategy for conquest of Nasiriyah and the arrest of Abd-al-Rashid for crimes against the Greater Empire for killing foreign nationals and the coup of President Abdullah, so. What is the current strength of the Nasiriyah military?" Warmarshal Kadri Yavuz explained to the rest of the Warmarshals before finishing with a question.

"Well Warmashal Yavuz" one of the other Warmarshals began. "The Nasiriyah army has three corps which make up the ground forces, the 1st corps maintains four armored divisons one is their Headqaurters divison in Sassad and one mechanized divison. Intelligence reports that the first corps is on the move to defensive positions near the Najib Heights which is a series of low land hills. The second corps is comprised of three armored divisons and two mechanized divisons they are on the move to the border and intelligence reports they're reinforcing their Border birgade who've pulled back from the border to the outskirts of Bakr city which their are two highways that they've dug themselves in around.

The third corps is comprised of a reserve armor divison and several infantry regiments that have been positioned along the coast and in the small penninsula they aqquire. The northern coast's infantry regiments and two Armored brigades that have formed their 4th Corps just receantly are moving to support the Republican Guard regiments and a reserve Armored divison defending the capitol in and around it. Finaly their are special forces units we have yet to identify or find their positions." the Warmarshal explained.

Warmarshal Yavuz nodded and was impressed with the Army Intelligence Divison who had figured our the enemys ground forces hours after the embassy attack.

"How does their airforce and navy fair?" he asked which knowing these two would be critical to the conquest of Nasiriyah.

"The airforce contigent is not a major threat if we handle them properly, the airforce mostly is made up of interceptor sqaudrons although they have a variety of other sqaudrons. They have deployed several sqaudrons of interceptors, fighters and helicopter sqaudrons to deny us aerial dominance. Their aircraft models aren't very formidable and I perdict aerial dominance in the first week of the assault. Their navy is even less formidable with a size of 125 vessels mostly gunboats and missile boats, they dont have many modern surface ships and only one aircraft carrier. I predict dominance of their waters in the first two weeks of our fleet's deployment and we can open up another front easily" the Warmarshal explained.

"Exellent work. I can predict that Nasiriyah will be under our control in atleast a month" Warmarshal Yavuz announced as the other warmarshalls agreed and nodded. The session was soon ended and war was upon Mahdah and their would be vengence.

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The Mahdavian - Nasiriyah border was a hive of activity, the border birgade on the Nasiriyah side of the border had pulled back to link up with elements of the 2nd Corps. The Mahdavian assault would consist of a army group of four hundred thousand men and women, the new front planned to be consisting of two corps which would be transported by the fleet that would decimate the Nasiriyah navy and open a second front into the war. Most of the I Army Group had massed at the border where they needed to be and elements of the Mahdavian Airforce had been readied for combat and were deployed to the border.

Two sqaudrons of Sukhoi-33 fighter aircraft and a sqaudron of A-10 Thunder bolts streamed across the border into Nasiriyah airspace. Intelligence reports had identified AA batteries near the border and the three sqaudrons of aircraft would be on the offensive and destroy the AA battery emplacements. Meanwhile the I Army Group had moved into Nasiriyah completely and were approaching the dug in positions of the 2nd Corps as meanwhile the I Strike Flotilla was being mobilized with two Corps of troops for deployment on a second front deep into Nasiriyah.

The Nasiriyahians were quick to respond as their AA Batteries which were mostly SAM emplacements and mobile heavy flak cannons which opened up on the sqaudrons as they approached. The Sukhoi-33 fighters were quick to manuever and deploy their counter measures as missiles and bullets flooded the air. The A-10s did the same although two aircraft were shot down by the AA Batteries but fourtantly many of the Sukoi-33 fighters fired their X-38 Air to surface missiles disabling many of the AA batteries. Several of the A-10 Thunderbolts had dropped well placed J-DAMs on the remaining AA Batteries and skewered the fleeing mobile AA vehicles with their 30mm GAU gatling cannon rounds which left the vehicles in ruins on the battlefield.

The foward elements of the I Army group which were two armored divisons had entered an engagement with the Nasiriyahian 2nd Corps Armored divisons. The majority of Nasiriyahian tanks were T-72s and old T-55s which were now up against the more mobile ZKS-76 main battle tanks of Tehraanian origin and the heavy firepower of the T-99 tanks. Tank fire was exchanged back and fourth between the two as the majority of casaulties were the blown up T-55s and several T-72s that littered the battlefield. They're were several ZKS-76 tanks that were damaged beyond repair by lucky shots to the tracks or the main gun was destroyed. The T-99s were fairing well and would be hanging back and taking shots at the enemy tanks from a far.

The T-72s ATGM launcher was becoming a problem to the engaged armored divisons of the I Army group. A sqaudron of AH-1 Viper attack helicopters were soon put out on the scene and engaging the T-72s with their AGM-114 Hellfire missiles which were mostly HEAT missiles used for Anti armor. They did exellent against the T-72s which were being destroyed left and right. The T-72s AA gun did some damage but were not effective against the more mobile helicopters above them. The Nasiriyahians Mechanized divison was pulled back into Bakr city where it was mostly evacuated besides the government sponsored Islamic militant group that had flooded volenteers into the city. The Bakr defenders were at a number of 25,000 soldiers and the 2nd Corps commander had ordered a retreat of the remaining armor into the city while the 2nd Corps Artillery battalion had begun firing on the outskirts where the approaching 5 divisons of the I Army group were heading.

The war was on and already the first city was underseige and motives by both sides were being put into motion for their next big steps.

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Chapter 2

Sergeant Kadri Aksoy who is currently sqaud leader of third sqaud, 2nd platoon from the 2nd Mechanized Battalion sat in the lead Jaguar Infantry fighting vehicle, for a convoy of Jaguar vehicles that make up the second platoon were on the move into the edge of Bakr city. Following the strip of road on the northern highway leading into the city it was quiet inside the Jaguar vehicle as the convoy entered the city limits driving through a bridge that took them into the city proper. Aksoy's assistant sqaud leader was a lance corporal who went by the name of T.J who sat beside him near the hatch door.

"Askoy, how far untill we reach our objective?" T.J asked as the convoy carried on through several empty streets.

"Not too far, we should be there soon. Nasiriyahian frontlines arent far from where we are" Askoy answered as the Jaguar jolted to a stop as pinging sounds were heard which meant bullets bouncing off the armor.

"That's not good." One of the sqaudmates said as Askoy gripped the hatch lever and turned it opening the hatch door to the Jaguar.

"Lets go kick some ass" Askoy replied fully opening the hatch door and getting into the fight as his sqaudmates came out and the hatch door closed. Askoy pulled up his ARX-160 assault rifle and got to cover as did his sqaudmates, his assistant kneeling beside him as they were figuring out what was happening.

The Nasiriyahians were firing at them with light machine guns and rifle fire from several buildings, two sqauds of them were out a street down from them taking cover behind concrete vehicle barriers and sandbags. A rocket from a RPG-7 flew over the lead Jaguar vehicle, The Jaguar's 30mm autocannon turret which was operated by a gunner inside the vehicle fired a burst of six 30mm rounds at the Nasiriyahians behind the barrier. The barriers were chewed away by the high explosive rounds as several of the soldiers behind it were torn to shreds as others got out of the way. The Jaguar IFV's then trained their autocannon fire on the buildings where the Nasiriyahians were firing from. Rubble and debree rained down on the suppressed sqauds below them,.

The Nasiriyahians soon had a T-72 turn the corner behind the suppressed sqauds, aiming its barrel towards the Jaguars. Askoy got his team away from the corner and down the alley way which was a dead end, the Jaguars franticly reversed backwards and fired 30mm rounds at the tank's superior frontal armour. The uneffected T-72 let off a round which nearly missed the lead Jaguar, one of the men from 1st sqaud fired a rocket from his SMAW which had a direct hit on the T-72 but did little to nothing. The T-72's coaxal HMG opened up to suppress the others as it let off another round and hit a Jaguar which pierced it's composite armor and left it imobilized in the street. A following Jaguar was able to fire it's TOW launcher which got a direct hit and disabled the tank.

A second TOW missile hit the tank which had hit it's ammo compartment causing a explosion ripping the top off the hull sending it flying into the air. The Nasiriyahnian soldiers had retreated back some laying suppressive fire with RPK light machine guns. The Jaguars had returned now with a vengence firing 30mm autocannon rounds as some of it's APC varients gunners fired their grenade launchers. Askoy and his sqaud moved up the street while the Jaguars laid down superior firepower and the other sqauds followed their lead. Askoy and his sqaud crossed a intersection and took cover behind what was left of the barriers as the other sqauds made their approach the Jaguars following behind them.

Suddenly two men from 1st sqaud went down in a hail of bullets as Nasiriyahian machine guns had opened up. Askoy lifted his ARX-160 assault rifle and fired a burst towards the Nasiriyahians as the others followed suite firing towards the machine guns positions. One of the ICSW teams were soon set up and begun firing multiple 52mm mortar shells suppressing the machine gunners, followed by the accurate fire from a DSSR which killed the gunners. The Jaguars opened up again pelting the remaining enemy soldiers with 30mm rounds which dispersed them sending them off running.

The Jaguars were soon sent forward as the sqauds followed in support, Two A-10 Thunderbolts raced over their heads as the men saw them followed by distant explosions from well placed J-DAM's and rocket fire on additional Nasiriyahnian armor and infantry units that were ahead. Askoy looked at his sqaud as they would soon be in battle again, he'd have it no other way.

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While the battle for Bakr city was underway the 2nd Corps of the I Army Group was moving to meet the Nasiriyahian 1st Corps at the Najib heights which had several indiviual towns and villages around the low land hills. A perfect position at the Najib heights was a fortified position of a ruined abandoned building being used by their Artillery detachment. The Nasiriyahians armored divisons spread out along the heights in improvised positions as their infantry regiments occupied the towns and villages. Above the approaching battle at the Najib heights was a sqaudron of Sukhoi-33 fighters flew above the Najib heights unopposed.

It wasnt long untill MiG fighter jets appeared on the scene and a dogfight had started. It was apparent that the Mahdavian fighters were superior and had quickly mopped up the MiGs who went down in fireballs above the battlefield. The fighters now turned their attention to the Artillery that was firing at the 2nd Corps of I Army Group, the Sukhoi-33 fighter jets swung around and went on the attack firing their X-38 air to surface missiles which destroyed the fortified artillery emplacement and even took out several tanks before leaving the area.

The second corps armored divisons went head to head with the Nasiriyahian first corps armored divisons and the battle for Nijib Heights begun. Meanwhile sitting at port in the Vahit Naval Port was the first Strike Group which it's Admiral Fatih Havryil commanded the mighty Kraken Super Capital ship which came from Lyran Arms. The First Strike Group was made up of 215 surface vessels and were mobilizing to decimate what was the 1st Nasiriyahian Fleet out in the Sea of Ayman . Going along with the Strike group was two Corps from the 7th Army Group and would be the ones to open up a new front in the war on Nasiriyah that was in it's third day.

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Inside the confines of a flying Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter were 24 members of the Special Operations Divison or better known as M-SOD. In the middle of the night above Nasiriyah a M-SOD operation was playing out, their objective was to HALO jump into the village of Abd-al-Aziz to eliminate the hierarchy of the Nasiriyah sponsored Holy Warriors of Allah militant group. The HWA were said to be planting IEDs and setting up ambush points in current battle zones and the leader was in direct contact with Nasiriyahian Generals to relay where to go and defend. M-SOD was going in to delay the government communication between them and the HWA and perhaps break the militants apart.

As the Mi-26 hovered high above the village the pilot announced it was time to go, the M-SOD soldiers lined up and as the cargo door elevated downwards and the signal was giving. The M-SOD operators jumped out one by one and simultanously deploying their chutes. The operators hit the ground not to far from the village and wrapped up their chutes and headed into the village, once inside the village their were sentries posted and others who were obviously HWA members. It then begun as the M-SOD operators begun consecutivly killing the guards leaving their bodies where they were and split up into teams searching the homes for the leaders.

It wasnt long before one of the teams entered a house where the leaders were, gathered around a map of the current battlefields. Just like that their deaths came and each were shot with three bullets to the chest. The mission had taken 6 minutes and no one else knew what was going on as the M-SOD operators had left the village rallying at a marked area for pick up 3 miles away. Eventualy the same Mi-26 landed and they all boarded inside, the operation had been complete as the Mi-26 took off towards Mahdavian soil. When the many of the heirarchy members were found dead along with their guards the HWA had become disfunctional and split into indiviual groups which the I Army Group would handle later.

The first week of the war against Nasiriyah had concluded and much had been done. The I Army Group was currently making progress in Bakr city and soon a breakthrough would decimate Nasiriyahian forces in the Nijib Heights. A M-SOD operation against HWA leadership had caused the group to become disfunctional and break apart. Much more was coming in the upcomming days that would further crush Nasiriyahian opposition. All in due time..

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Chapter 3

It was nearing midnight at AFB Bohdan and twelve pilots were heading out at fast pace to their newly delivered MTD Type-37, "Sarissa" Strike Bombers. Earlier they had been breifed on a cooridnated strategic operation nicknamed, 'OPERATION DAWN BRINGER' which when breifed was the systamatic destruction of several major Nasiriyahian airforce bases. Nasiriyah was home to fifteen airforce bases and eight civilian airlines which were to be taken by ground forces in future operations. Three major airbases needed to be destroyed in this operation, all three were the bases fielding many of the Nasiriyahian airforce's Tupolev 95 long range bomber aircraft which was a deemed a major risk to ground operations in Nasiriyah.

Sarissa Strike Bomber Pilot Deniz Aslan had climbed aboard into the pilot seat of the Sarissa as did his other three staff that accompanied him. Behind them several feet away was another Sarissa Strike Bomber that was going to take a route following behind to a different airbase and another Sarissa was behind that one doing the same thing. Each bomber had been designated a airforce base to hit and as the clock ticked down it was time to start the mission. Aslan begun turning the Sarissa Bomber on as did the other two behind them, then did the appropriate tests and procedures as Aslan prepared for take off.

"Cobra One to Bird's Nest, reporting in" Aslan said as did the other pilots he could hear through his helmet ear piece.

"Fox One to Bird's Nest, reporting in"

"Jaguar One to Bird's Nest, reporting in"

"Birds Nest to all operators, on your screens are the mission breifing and mapping of the airforce bases you will indiviualy be destroying. Be safe and let'em burn" the Commanding officer of the operation said from the control tower as Aslan pushed foward the analog stick and jolted the Sarissa forward down the runway as he pulled a second stick back, the Sarissa smoothly climbed into the air as did the others. The airforce base he was gridded to target was 600km away as began the flying process and they would be there in atleast 15 minutes.

As the minutes clocked down Aslan had begun flying the Sarissa at low altitude to increase it's stealth while the EW officer worked on jamming the radar station in the airbase. Within seconds the EW Officer reported they were now jamming the airbase's radar, flying below the sound barrier and at low altitude would make them almost invisible. They were now at the range to begin launching munitions, through Aslans retnial lens he had a view of the airbase clear in his veiw and was in night vision mode. The Weapons officer was then relayed targets to hit such as the hangars and tarmac, the weapon of choice that was first were the Large guided bombs, consecutively within seconds several LGBs were dropped and guided to their targets decimating three hangars causing several massive explosions.

As the Sarissa continued its fly around, the thermobaric bombs which were EO guided were let loose and consecutively destroyed the tarmac and any aircraft lined up outside. A fuel depot had been struck as the explosion was massive a even larger mushroom shaped cloud followed as the Sarissa's EW officer reported it had also disabled the radar stations radar systems. Three more hangars were found and once again the Sarissa didn't dissapoint as they decimated the remaining hangars, the mission had taken 4 minutes to complete as suddenly the Sarissa took off climbing into the air and volting away from the scene like a comet towards base as did the other three who had completed their missions.

"Operation Dawn Bringer Successfull, great job. Return to base"

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The seige of Bakr city in it's 10th consecutive day was progressing well for the 1st Corps beseiging the city. The defending Nasiriyahians were on the retreat after every battle against the 1st Corps, the defenders had lost the majority of their armor capability inside the city and were down to a handfull of BMP-2s and the overall infantry urban combat. A-10 Thunderbolt tactical level bombings were doing wonders for the 1st Corp as they were able to inflict hurt on upcomming enemy units before they got there. When the HWA heirarchy was killed and the group split, infighting was had with even some fighting against their own country's military. Ofcourse the 1st Corps exploited and was taking the fight to all of them. The current frontlines on the seige of Bakr city were now 2km from the city limits of the city and they could tell the enemy was at their breaking point.

The amount of casualties utilized by the Nasiriyahians in Bakr was at a staggering 17,000 soldiers while casualties for the 1st Corps was at 1,042 men and women. Prisoners of war numbers of captured Nasiriyahian soldiers was at 3,045 POWs, the current battles on-going inside the city was for three key bridges that run over a water source pumped in from below ground pipes at a river. Nasiriyahian attempts to blow the bridges had failed and combat was heavy.

Several A-10 gun runs had definatly softened up the bridge's defenders as the 1st Corps had already overrun one of the bridges. A platoon of mechanized vehicles were getting across with infantry and had preformed a flanking manuever on the defenders which had completely disorganized them allowing for a breakthrough and the taking of the two remaining bridges. The city had effectivly been taken as many of the remaining defenders had surrendered mostly and was a major victory of the war. The Nijib Heights were next on the major victory list as air dominance in the heights had been stripped from the Nasiriyahians.

The 2nd Corps which were now had been in full fledged combat with the defenders were expecting a breakthrough anytime. With air superiority in Nijib Heights, a increase in A-10 gun runs had been utilized against the Nijib defenders, causing chaos amongst them and the increasing approach of defeat of the Nijib Heights and the 2nd Corps of Nasiriyah. To maximize the effectiveness of their defeat during the night a force of paratroopers from the Mahdavian Army Airbourne had been paradropped in behind enemy lines and had rained havoc on the villages defenders. By the next day the airbourne force with assistance from the air had secured the Nasiriyahians back and were pushing towards their rear as the majority of 1st corps pushed foward, the Nijib defenders were being crushed like a pancake.

It wasn't long before the low lying hills had been secured and the airbourne and 1st Corps had met in the middle, signifing that the Nijib Heights had been won. Casualties just as Bakr were minimal and Nasiriyahians had suffered another large defeat. It seemed the tide of the war had now been in Mahdah's favor and were to complete their overall goal of taking Nasiriyah very soon.