Valkiir wrote:The Hindustani State wrote:Mediterranean Sea
Commander Vikram Singh nearly burst out laughing at the Saranidian response. They sent a fleet of aircrafts to stop a fleet of troop carriers... escorted by corvettes.
“Fire the AA cannons” the commander ordered, as the corvettes aimed and started firing at the planesYet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with cold pitiless eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.Satellites picked up the increase in military band radars and the distinctive thermal flashes of weapons fire, singles flashed around the globe, and into computers, and across the monitors of the officer assigned various roles. in minutes responses dictated by contingency plans and pre-arranged codes flashed back fro their terminals, to command and control networks and receivers linked to the submarines loitering in the Atlantic. These ships were not city killing world-ending nuclear-armed doomsday warriors. they were meant for far more precise work, lethal silent assassins primed to strike at a moment's notice against enemies that might not even know they were in the crosshairs.“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
in this case, the strike would be a bolt from the blue, six submarines firing 24 missiles each in rapid sequence, then a second sequence thirty seconds later. the missiles were ejected from their tubes, and once reaching the surface solid-fueled rockets accelerated the missiles to twice the speed of sound climbing vertically to fifty thousand feet. solid-fueled air-breathing ramjets then ignited the sleek rapier thin missile continued to accelerate as they flew in a high arc before plunging almost vertically toward their targets. targeted by radar, thermal, multi-spectrum visual imagers, and passive radar detecting systems each missile pinged its neighbor as the missile picked out the most opportune target in the Hindustani State fleet of transports and corvettes below.
the first wave targeted the corvettes, using their fire control radars to home in on. at five thousand meters the warheads or the hypersonic Shaitain Missiles split apart into a swarm of five-kilogram, 1350 meters per second, 4,556,250 joule submunitions made of tungsten and steel. The missiles that hit their target would hit their target with a dozen or more projectiles aimed at the ship's powerplant, engines, and radars. each one hitting with the power of an anti-tank gun. In the confusion of a naval battle it was unlikely the enemy would pause to consider that the incoming missiles were from anyone but the force they ere engaging, the silent assassins would unload 144 missiles at the corvettes to neutralize the air defense, then the second wave would strike the intended target.
The transports were target with a different munition this one was a single warhead filed with microscopically powdered iron oxide, aluminum, magnesium, and zinc. If, or WHEN they hit the missiles would rip through the upper works of the ship, penetrate the hull rupture filling open spaces with a cloud of superheated metal that burst into flame instantly creating a shockwave that could blow out bulkheads, buckle the hull outward consume every molecule of oxygen available and turn human tissue into charred carbon almost instantly. That was before the ship's cargo of war materials, fuel, and other combustibles were added into the nightmarish mixes.
A ships stuck By Shaitan would not likely survive the encounter, and anyone aboard it was not long for the world, with entire units of troops herded into metal boxes and set in the middle of the ocean where there was no hiding, and no place to run, the opportunity to strike a lethal, and decisive blow was a temptation few military planners could pass up. And with a chance to increase the odds of a Victory for Saranidia being the goal, the chance was not thrown away by The war planners far far away, watching their satellite feeds in anonymity
The submarines would abruptly stop and freeze.
Across every screen was a single message.
ACTION TEMPORARILY VOIDED BY CO-OP UNTIL OP COMES IN.
OOC: Are you really telling me that you have subs firing from the Atlantic at some guy in the Eastern Mediterranean who just left the Suez and expect people to not notice?
I'm not saying it's impossible, but...
On hold until OP approves.
EDIT: Actually, voided. Combat should not begin until OP says so.
