A Storm Rising

[Mara Lithaen]

Mara sat behind her desk, finger steepled under her chin. The world today, as always it had been since she took office, was chaotic beyond imagination. Her Horde allies had conquered land from one end of the world to the other, whether by true conquest or by diplomatic shenanigans, and their influence was now stronger than ever. She felt the call to join them in her very bones, to lead her nation to glory... but it was not yet time. Perhaps... Perhaps it was, in truth, and she was simply nervous about sending the soldiers of her nation to die on some faraway battlefield. For whoever shot the bullet, fired the missile, loaded the gun that actually kill them, it was on her shoulders that they were there to be killed.

She knew from Jane that she could reasonably expect her soldiers to make good their losses, inflict terrible casualties on their enemies - but no losses were ever good... merely acceptable. [i]There might be a way to reduce that...[/i] she thought, and picked up the phone.

"Get me Minister Kehenna." She told her secretary, and a few minutes passed before Christian picked up the phone.

"Your Excellency, how are you?" he asked.

"I'm well, Christian. I do wish you'd call me Mara."

"I'm sorry, milady."

"Well... at any rate, have you been watching the news lately?" She asked, a bit put out.

"The business in Africa?" he queried.

"Indeed. I think it's about time to do some 'exercises' with our Marscurian friends." Mara stated.

"I'll get on it..."

[quote]To: Marscurian Siberia
From: The Northern Imperium

Subj: Exercises

Would you be amenable to a joint military exercise in Alaska?[/quote]

[KaiserMelech Mikhail]

The entirety of the Marscurian Siberian 1st Army is currently in Alaska. They would be willing to undergo these exercises with you.

[Mara Lithaen]

The two forces would meet at a plain north of the Yukon-Charley Rivers Reserve - more than large enough to house the 360,000 troops that would soon be arriving. The Northern Imperium would play the role of both OpFor and Defender in the exercises. Each exercise roughly divided up so that 120,000 troops would be involved during them, 30,000 Marscurians and 30,000 Imperials on each side. Laser-tag systems were distributed, RIS-rail mountable versions for the Imperials and whatever design the Marscurians needed given to them. Special tank laser systems were distributed, and all rockets and artillery shells were replaced with AoE signal emitters that denoted a kill within their radius. Anti-tank weapons were also fit with laser-tag systems.

[img]http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7969/exercise2.jpg[/img]

Black: Imperium
Red: Marscurians.

Edited February 9, 2012 by Mara Lithaen

[KaiserMelech Mikhail]

While the Marscurian commanders met with their Imperial counterparts, the first moves were being made by both sides. With the same standard operating procedure, both groups sent out the three different advanced units. Snipers, armed with the M13 sniper rifle and several days of food were sent into the woods to hunt the opposing advanced units that the opposing team would have sent out. Scouts, armed with an SMG-1 submachine gun, a rough map, and a short-wave radio, were sent towards the opposing team to track their movements. The last group were the artillery forward observers. These men were armed with just an MP-33 pistol, a detailed map with the correct gridlines, and a long-range radio that reached back to base. They weren't allowed to go longer than 31 miles out, as that was the maximum range of the largest guns. While the men were working their way through the woods, the Marscurian commanders went over the situation with the Imperials. General Mikhail Marantzbaum, the commander of the 1st Army was in charge of the western team, and General Moshe Rosen, one of the higher-ranking generals in the army, was in charge of the eastern team.

[Mara Lithaen]

General Koslova commanded the 1st Line Army, roughly 30,000 troopers and materiel, on the OpFor; her counterpart, General O'Neill commanded the 2nd for the Defenders. Fire Scout and Reaper drones were launched from their mobile trailers, providing reconnaissance for both sides, while the Mountain Rangers disappeared into the underbrush with DMRs and M-40 sniper rifles, their spotters armed with Mark 134 light machine guns and laser-designation units for the rocket artillery favored by the Northern Imperium. All their weapons were fitted with the laser-tag system distributed to both sides.

"Gunfire" crackled as the two sides recon teams met in combat, at first single, widely dispersed shots, rapidly becoming a relatively steady thrum of blank rounds accompanied by laser hits and misses. The much more vehicle-based Imperial troops tore out, sending up rooster tails of moist earth from the back wheels and tracks of APCs, IFVs and tanks, seeking to enter battle with their counterparts on either side.

[KaiserMelech Mikhail]

"Resh 10, Mem 3, Yud 526, Samech 0, Mem 3, Drayen Keseyderdik Tzvantzik," crackled over the radio.

"Roger Roger," Captain Markoff responded before replacing the hand piece of the radio. "RESH 10, MEM 3, YUD 526, SAMECH 0, MEM 3, DRAYEN KESEYDERDIK TZVANTZIK," he yelled out, putting his earplugs in. The gun crews who had been sitting around the campfire suddenly rushed to their vehicles, started the engines, turned them so that the faced the correct direction, and lowered the platform to stabilize the guns. As the the barrels were being raised to their correct angles, the gun crews put their earmuffs on.

BOOM! The first gun shot its 175mm shell down to the target specified. Since the artillery piece took a full minute to reload, the shots were scattered so that the guns, fifty on each side in a concentrated fire-base, would have a shot fired almost every second. As ordered, this went on for two minutes, so that a total of 1200 "shells" were fired at the opposing soldiers' position. When this was over, the captain got on the radio again to the forward observers, requesting a new position, as the opposing group should have dispersed at this point.

Downfield, the eastern team that was being "bombarded" took a lot of casualties. Each shell took out at least one man, sending the red lights on their uniforms flashing, with 2,500 men gone. However, the armor was traveling far in front of the main force, and escaped unharmed.

At the far front of the eastern force, a lone tank destroyer, the fastest tracked vehicle, located a contingency of the western Imperial team. Its turret whirring with the hydraulics, the barrel took aim at jeep that was traveling along the side and fired. The tank destroyer then sped into a clearing in the the trees in an attempt to hide. Shutting down the engine, but leaving the electric systems on to power the hydraulics, the commander took command of the machine gun to take any soldiers who would try to attack them.

[Mara Lithaen]

A nearby tank commander registered the destruction of a screening Hammer IFV, and the M1A3's Rheinmetall 120mm smoothbore gun tracked the fleeing tank destroyer, sending a APFSDS round "downrange"... and directly "through" the opposing TD.

A battalion of Defender Apache Longbow helicopters swooped low over the battlefield, the AH-64E's low radar cross-sections coupled with their altitude putting them below the range of anti-aircraft fire, and proceeded to rain hell on the advancing OpFor Marscurians, out of the range of the Imperial OpFor's Starstreak-B launchers.

OpFor Ranger spotters began to mark targets, and a flight of MGM-30 Unitary rockets began to pick off Defender artillery pieces, silencing the Marscurian guns and Imperial launchers, as well as targeting armor and infantry, though with less success in that department than the Marscurian "bombardment" had.

[KaiserMelech Mikhail]

With the hit, the electronics in the tank destroyer shut down, and red lights began flashing.

"Well lads," the commander said, "it appears we're dead." Getting out of the vehicle, the crew started crawling towards the enemy.

"UUUUUUGH, OOOOOOH, YOU GOT US!"

"BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG!"

"A CANDLE THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT BURNS HALF AS LONG!"

They then fell to the ground twitching, milking the situation as much as they could.


On the advancing front, the troops would scatter at the sounds of the helicopters. The only ones who would stand and fight were the RPG squads, who would aim at the approaching birds, fire, then run for cover. The helicopters were to fast to hit any other way. However, loads of men were still hit, unable to break rank and run fast enough, or unable to find sufficient coverage.

The close concentration of artillery pieces in their fire bases, although enabling large concentrations of attacks and efficient communication, also made them extremely vulnerable to attack. The bombardment took out 20 of the 100 artillery pieces in the firebases, along with many of the low-altitude anti-aircraft cannons.

"SCOUTS," the commanders yelled over the radio, "FIND THOSE MISSILES BEFORE THEY TEAR US ALL TO SHREDS."

[Mara Lithaen]

After several weeks of back-and-forth good-natured war-gaming (well, good-natured after the fact) the time had come. Marscurian and Imperial divisions turned in their laser-tag systems, replacing them with M203 grenade launchers and their AK counterpart, the GL, along with a hundred and one other battlefield aids. They stationed themselves along the Canadian border, tank divisions dividing up into platoons supporting 560,000 infantry, supported by well over 1500 AH-64E Apaches and nearly two thousand artillery pieces of all makes and models, mostly Imperial Paladins and M201A2 Launchers. The infantry did not go unprotected, finding transport in countless Hammer and CV9040 APCs and IFVs. No unit above platoon level went without local, battlefield and theater air defense in reasonably close proximity, with Centurion CIWS platforms attached to the ADS units (which, being a pair of ginormous miniguns attached to driving radar that can be slaved to human control, also made them very effective against non-missile armed infantry and light vehicles).

The entirety of the Combat Air Force flew that day, 150 F-22s and an equal number of F-23s, along with a smaller number of Delta Raptors and Strike Widows (read, 100 total) flying alongside them, preparing to unleash hell on any ground forces in their path with their CBU-87 Combined Effects Munitions and CMU-230 incendiary canisters. B-2 Spirit bombers (24) lit up, their engines shaking the dawn, lifting off with 80,000 pounds of payload, headed for the Canadian army's concentration points throughout the near half of the country, flying high and emissions-low, a new generation of radar-absorbing paint bettering their defense.

Coincidentally, this was sent to the Canadian Government.

[quote][img]http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2806/test5y.jpg[/img]
[center]From the Desk of the Empress[/center]
To the citizens of CANADA, who may have just signed up for military service with the knowledge that your alarm klaxons would only be activated if war was declared... War was declared.

For the Empire![/quote]

With that issued, the tanks, soldiers, helicopters and air weapons streaked off to begin their assault, rolling over the admittedly defenseless northern border, pushing down towards Calgary. The Sturmjaegers were hoping to prove their name this day and all those after it.

Additionally, this blasted from every speaker in the Army, along with a selection of other great hits.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbmOPEquDFs"]Highway to Hell[/url]

Edited February 23, 2012 by Mara Lithaen

[Triyun]

[b]Military Dispatch from Tianxia to Canada[/b]

The Pacific and Arctic Oceans are hereby closed to your forces. Respect this or else.

-Regards

Ruiners of Your Day

[KaiserMelech Mikhail]

The English version of Marscurian News:
[img]http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae218/mikial21/Warnewspaper-1.png[/img]

With that, the Marscurian troops and tanks charged across the border, and attempted to head east while the Imperials headed south to take Calgary. The first target would be Whitehorse, Yukon, the territorial capital. Troops would start by advancing down Highway 1, the Alaska Highway. With hills and trees on both sides, everyone would be on high alert. Tanks would lead the way, followed by the infantry. The immediate target was the town of Haines Junction, where Highway 1 split to both the south and the east, towards British Columbia and Whitehorse. The town would be vital to the streaming of reinforcements, so it needed to be taken at all costs.

In the seas, the 2nd and 3rd Fleets of the Marscurian Siberian Navy would enter the Eastern Pacific Ocean to blockade all traffic to and from Canadian ports. Any ships caught trying to enter or leave would be boarded by a team of naval infantry. If the ships were foreign, they would be turned away with a stern warning that the Canadians were under a strict naval blockade. If the ships were Canadian, the ships would be taken to Marscurian Siberia, their cargo unloaded and the ships broken up for scrap metal to support the war effort against the aggressors. The 2nd Fleet would stay 75 miles off the Canadian coast, far away from any coastal defenses. The 3rd Fleet would patrol the western half of Vancouver Island, targeting anything of military value.

Edited February 23, 2012 by KaiserMelech Mikhail

[Centurius]

[b]Dispatch from the Athenian Federation to Canada:[/b]

The Atlantic and Southern Oceans are hereby closed to your forces. Respect this or we have a missile 'test'.

Sincerely,
Your Undoing.

[TheShammySocialist]

Edit: Declaration of Support Post retconned...

Edited March 2, 2012 by TheShammySocialist

[JEDCJT]

The Canadian Ministry of Defense had watched the military 'exercises' taking place in the neighboring Northern Imperium for some time now. Nevertheless, it was surprised by an outright invasion, especially with the hostile message received from the Imperium just prior to the attack and the blatant lies spewed by Marscurian Siberia. Naval bases located near Tofino and Victoria in Alta Vancavite (Vancouver Island), and near Westport and Ocean Shores in the Province of Alberquerque (Washington State) reported the presence of Siberian military vessels. Luckily enough, the Ministry of Defense had responded to the exercises in kind.

From a paltry 5,000 troops and 100 tanks, to over 300,000 troops reinforced with 2,500 tanks and 1,500 heavy artillery pieces, Canadian forces were concentrated in the mountainous region between the border and Yukon City (Whitehorse), a certain distance away from the border. Heavy equipment had been brought in to bolster the border guard - Juggernaut II Main Battle Tanks, Titans and Abrams Tanks upgraded with the 'Tank Urban Survival Kit' (TUSK).

As reports of heavy fighting alongside the border, as heavy-armed border guards of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), and some individual infantry units, fought valiantly to hold the invaders at bay, filtered into the headquarters of the Canadian Military High Command, military commanders and strategists debated, in a hastily-convened emergency meeting with the Lord Protectors, on how to deal with the rapidly-evolving situation and to develop an overall defensive strategy aimed at repulsing the invasion. It was decided that Canada would not fold in face of ludicrious attempt by foreign powers to destroy Canada and its integrity; she would fight back and fight hard. The invaders would pay for their folly with every drop of their blood. Every drop.

Facing a war on two fronts, one in Africa and now one at her western border, Canada was duly placed on DEFCON 1, the highest level ever issued in her history. Nearly 800,000 troops in the New Portugal Region, already in full alert given the earlier orders issued by the Defense Ministry, prepared to fight for their country. [b]Operation PATRIOT[/b] was launched, with RADAR and PAVE PAWS bases entering full operations as the three branches of the Canadian military readied to work together in repelling the invasion. To begin off with, UAV drones were dispatched to scan Canadian waters off the coast of Alta Vancavite and Alberquerque, pinpoint the position of Siberian military ships and designate them as targets for anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) that were to be launched; AWACs were also dispatched for the same purpose, defended by several squadrons of interceptors that were tasked with neutralizing any threats to the AWACs. In turn, about ten to fifteen submarines would be dispatched to scout out the locations of the Siberian blockade; metric $%&@tons of ASBMs would be launched from land, from aircrafts, and from the submarines in large numbers to destroy or severely cripple the ships. Missiles such as the Kh-22 and low-flying long-ranged cruise missiles like the Kh-55 would be used for this purpose.

At the same time, airfields and airbases near Yukon City were buzzing with frenzied activity as twenty squadrons of F/A-66 Light Weight Fighters, EF-50 Banshees, and the T-50Cs (totalling 240 aircrafts) lifted up into the air with orders to engage the threat. The F-66s would engage the fighters for the most part, utilizing their stealth features to gain an advantage. The T-50Cs, with their supercruise engines, would lift off their bases inland and fly toward the enemy aircrafts at full speed. With their powerful full body 360 degree AESA, the T-50Cs would be able to detect enemy aircrafts, using radar in at a squadron level as a networked multi-static radar. The EF-50, in particularly, was to wage electronic warfare on enemy aircrafts, and the F-35 was to provide close air support for Canadian ground forces and perform accordingly. In turn, five squadrons of stealth bombers (Tu-160 Heaven's Fury S and B-2 Shadow, totalling 60 aircrafts) would launch operations against enemy targets on the ground, dropping munitions upon them. Tactical ballistic missiles would be launched in scores at enemy positions and advances as to wreak havoc and inflict casualties upon the enemy, and provide assistance to Canadian ground forces; they would target built-up air defenses and tank columns, among others.

On the ground, as aircrafts flew abroad and missiles whizzed overhead, thousands of troops stationed near the city of Dawson were rushed to the front in order to relieve the beleaguered border guards, and if possible, to plug in any gaps that may have developed in their defense, and failing that, to stage a limited retreat as to minimize casualties while inflicting major damage to the invaders in the process. As for the reminder, the hundreds of thousands of troops throughout the Yukon began digging in their positions, especially in mountaineous regions like the Brooks Range and part of the Interior Mountains, among others. Teams of defenders would cover themselves with IR-proofed tarps and lay low to avoid (or minimize) detection by enemy UAVs, and pop up at appropriate times to engage the enemy that appeared in sight. They would utilize MBTs to target enemy troop transports and tanks; Tor systems would not only be used to shoot down hellfire missiles, but also UAVs, helicopters, low-flying cruise missiles, and low-flying aircrafts, and they would be supported in turn by Tunguskas and C-RAM units, which would target artillery shells. In addition, they would be armed with MANPADS such as Stingers and Starstreaks to target the enemy Apaches. In some cases, the defenders would utilize EFOGMs (enhanced fiber optic guided missile) to target the enemy helicopters, troop transports and tanks they encountered; EFOGMs would be particularly useful, for they would not be easily jammed by the enemy. The IR-proofed tarp teams would be separate from dug-in tanks, Tors, Tunguskas, and C-RAM units; once they had fired MANPAD missiles or EFOGMs in small numbers at the enemy, they would displace, cover themselves again, and repeat.

To deal with any enemy breakthroughs, the Canadians would show that the enemy was not the only one that used helicopters; they would deploy hunter killer teams of helicopter gunships, flying at low altitudes, to launch (in other words, spam) missiles at enemy mechanized units on the ground as well enemy Apaches. Surface-scanning radars would, in fact, be used to find Apaches. To deal with enemy SAMs on the battlefield, fighters already up in the air along with additional ones lifting up into the air would proceed to perform SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) operations, launching long-ranged cruise missiles to target enemy battlefield and theater SAMs and AAAs, and anti-radiation missiles at their radars, with the intentions of putting them out of operation. To deal with enemy aircrafts, SAM launchers such as the Patriot PAC-1 (in other words, the MIM-104B Patriot), PAC-2/GEM (MIM-104D), and PAC-3 (MIM-104F) went into operation, launching missiles to target the aircrafts, especially the stealth bombers (which would lose some stealth while they were opening their bomb bay doors). In addition, the Canadians would utilize mobile SHORAD (short tange air defense), especially the ADATS (air defense anti-tank system) - which would work with Tors and Tunguskas - to deal with tanks and aircrafts.

From behind the Canadian lines, SS-26 Stone tactical ballistic missiles would be launched, utilizing radar terminal guidance and (in some case) electro-optical guidance to target enemy armored columns, SAM/RADAR sites, and/or forward operating bases. Fighters (these not currently engaging the enemy up in the air or escorting AWACs) would drop cluster munitions in rough terrain areas such as hills or valleys to target enemy tanks. Any enemy advance were to be met by cruise missiles armed with cluster warheads, which strove to deal as much damage as possible. The Defense Ministry was glad the Army Corps of Engineers had been working, for some time in peacetime, on installing powerful anti-tank mines and anti-personnel in mountains, hills, and valleys, especially narrow passes. As soon the invasion began, the Army Corps of Engineers intensified the process of laying mines, particularly in the Yukon. The mines would serve as a nasty surprise for the enemy, and the defenders would make sure the enemy never had the time to even get close to the mines (let alone know exactly where they were) to defuse or demine them.

Once the aerial defense systems did their part, the second wave of F/A-66s and mostly T-50Cs, joined in by F/B-23 Strike Widows, would be launched in large numbers (thirty squadrons of aircrafts, or 360 aircrafts, in addition to any surviving aircrafts of the first wave) to engage any surviving enemy fighters and interceptors. AWACs would be used extensively, under heavy fighter protection, to pinpoint the enemy (especially F-22s and F-23s) and try to destroy them.

The enemy would see that any attempt to seize Calgari (Calgary), and even Yukon City itself, would be riven with much difficulty, and involve much blood-letting. Canada's rough terrain coupled with its vast size (Calgari was over 2,500 km away from the NI border) and a people determined to defend their country combined together to create a highly-formidable obstacle the invaders had to surmount if they were to succeed in their invasion.

[Mara Lithaen]

"We have customers, Basilisk." Captain Wallace said into her helmet mike, her Strike Widow's sensor operator showing her the first glimmers of fire-control radar lighting up from the AD stations lining the border. Basilisk Squadron's "shooters" rode abreast in a miles-long line ahead of the Strike Widows, for, as stealthy as the Widows were, the Raptors were quite a bit more lethal in a dogfight. The same was (mostly) true of the other strike units in the massive assault - and a few squadrons, like Basilisk, were tasked only with killing radar and SAMs/AA. And they would do so, with lethal efficiency.

Turning her belly towards the heavens and popping her armament bays as her operator marked a SAM site, she let fly with a hypersonic AARGM-88F missile, (advanced anti-radiation guided missile, 88, mark F), immediately closing her bays and streaking off on a wildly different vector afterwards.

Her maneuver, known as the "Wallace Weave" among the fighter pilots who had learned it, repeated itself all up and down the stormfront of raining destruction that was the IAF's SEADAA task force, blotting away SAMs and radars, immediately returning to Stealth.

Every CV-9040 transport in the assault force (roughly 10,000 IFVs) was the up-armored Mark IV version with depleted uranium appliques and the AMAP-ADS hardkill defense system, in addition to either a Javelin pod or a Starstreak-B pod for local AD. Thus, the hunter-killer teams ran into an immediate wall of heavy anti-air from the 9040's 40mm Bofors and Starstreak-B pods. Additionally, two squadrons of F-22s had spread themselves among the rest of the strike wave, loaded down with Starstreak-B canisters of their own, and engaged the helicopters viciously while F/B-22s and Strike Widows pounded advancing units into scrap metal with CBU-87 CEMs and CMU-230 napalm canisters. The CEMs dropped bomblets - anti-personnel, anti-tank, anti-materiel and anti-minefield, standard loadout - in a flurry upon the Canadians, 202 total per bomb, 4 per strike fighter. Every explosive was set to detonate immediately, and for the small percentage of duds - though the spreads on the munitions was impressive, it was not enough for the high explosives to avoid fratricide, clearing their own debris and duds out of the way of the advancing Imperials.

To add headache atop headache, AN/TWQ-2 Phalanx and TWQ-4 Slammer units roved with the forces, the mobile SAMs rapidly making a nuisance of themselves with the Phalanxes' GAU-12 20mm rotary cannons and twin Stinger pods, each carrying four missiles, and the Slammers' 6 two-stage LANDRAAM missiles. The LANDRAAM had a second stage to allow the main to have similar performance to its' air launched brother, the AMRAAM.

MIM-201 Imperial SAMs launched from behind the border, along with a blast front of S-500 SAMs, the Imperial PAVE PAWS systems paying off in spades in finding and targeting the non-stealth Canadian planes. For the ones with significant stealth capability, 22 squadrons (272 planes) of Widows and Raptors were armed with 2 Sidewinder or 2 METEOR II and 4 STARSTREAK-B canisters, each of which contained 3 Starstreak-B missiles for dog-fighting, which the Imperial pilots employed ruthlessly, diving out of the sun, barely detected by even AESA that knew where to look (RL example, true story), their EOTS aiding them in their search, along with the Mark One eyeball. About a quarter of the Widows flew as EW planes, jamming enemy radar and playing merry hell with communications and guidance. The network link of each squadron to the others enabled a sensor operator on an F-22 on the far southern end of the front to know that the northern end's AWACS had picked up enemy AWACS units and was diverting a missile strike towards it.

Every trooper was geared up in Dragon Skin armor, with a clamshell shrapnel-defeating layer made of shock-resistant plastic over their torso and Kevlar armored pads on their legs and shoulders, a la the Interceptor rig. Their armor was fully NBC-equipped, and a respirator mask covered their faces. For all this protection, however, once they left their transports the bloodletting began in earnest, as the two opposing forces clashed, dozens of casualties and fatalities showing up on CASEVAC's boards, Blackhawks and Ospreys sliding forward when possible to evacuate the wounded. For the losses they took, however, the Imperials more than made up for themselves, benefiting from the Imperium's practice of "Every soldier a marksman", and proving it with deadly efficiency with any and all of their equipment, from pistols to missile launchers to HMGs and GL emplacements.

Rangers ranged far out ahead of the main forces, hydrogen-electric powered buggies scooting their teams near silently across the tops of the hills, armed with .50cal machine guns or M134 SAWs, while Ranger Snipers took up positions ahead of and above the advancing forces, L96AW rifles and Barrett 416 rifles serving to ruin the day of any officer or light-armored-vehicle that crossed their path. Still other Rangers tooled around on their buggies, armed with SMAW or Javelin racks, raining hell on armor and then speeding away, the composite vehicles sneering at the efforts of radars attempting to lock onto them.

TOMAHAWK and LLASM-B hypersonic cruise missiles were readied behind the lines, and ripple-fired as the Snipers spotted targets for them, their supporting BGM-109G TELs immediately folding up and racing away from their start points, Centurion ADS and CV-9040s trailing them and screening them.

M-201 MLRS rained hell for a hundred kilometers before them with M-29, M-30 SADARM (Search and Destroy Armor) and M-31 Unitary munitions dropping from the sky under the terminal guidance of satellites thousands of miles above, and even targets of opportunity marked by passing Strike craft. MGM-140A missiles added their fury, the larger missiles sprinkling thousands of mines atop and infront of the Canadians, while MGM-135 missiles where held in reserve in the event their deadly payload of VX would be needed in some dire situation.

The 2300-tank-strong Imperial Armored Corps drove onwards, the M1A4 TUSK-ADS fanning out to meet the oncoming Canadian tanks, some climbing as far as possible to the top the hilly/mountainous terrain to offer the best vantage, while others stayed to the low country, trusting to the artillery and high-tanks to cover their sides as they moved to crush enemy forces in detail. Their Rheinmetall M256E1 120mm smoothbore cannons, firing M829 APFSDSLRP rounds (Armor-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding-sabot long rod penetrator) and HEAT shells, the rounds moving faster than a mile per second once they left the barrel, began chewing into the flanks and turrets of their opponents, some of the Imperial-tanks tanking up hull-down positions in depressions and turning themselves into low-visibility deathtraps for the Canadians, while the other sought to get into the Canadians' rears. AMAP-ADS systems shot down many, but not all of the rockets and missiles aimed at them, and a few lucky tanks' systems even managed to knock off-course the rounds headed in their direction from the Canadians, but of the rest, most of the Imperial tanks survived with missing tracks or compromised armor sections, and compensated by turning and presenting their unharmed side to their foes, some destroyed outright, however. Thanks (perhaps) to their designers, the blowout panels functioned as intended and a goodly number of their crews survived.

The B-2s were flying on a southerly route, looping around through the Californian Republic, over Union territory, and finally dropping in directly in the rear of the Canadian forces, before dropping 960,000 pounds of destruction on roads and rails between Calgari and battlefront. Their other 12 sisters looped north, coming over the Tianxia-patrolled Arctic and looping in from behind the advancing forces, dropping small-diameter bombs and large CBU-88 canisters (upscaled 87s) from one end of the mountain-range entrenched forces to the other, before returning home via the route they had taken; both groups intensely relieved that the SAMs which had managed to acquire them had lost lock or missed, though a B-2 had taken a rather nasty hit from the southern defenses, and was limping back to Calcasieu JFB. Shortly after the Yukon bombardment ended, a crazy-arsed Ranger team got the Hell out of Dodge, as they had called it in.

Edited February 25, 2012 by Mara Lithaen

[TheShammySocialist]

[b]Classified[/b]

Within only five hours of aid to their northern neighbors being promised, the first elements of the Armed Services of Greater New England were preparing to roll north into Canada, while other forces began to prepare the country for retaliation attacks against the homeland. Following a highly encrypted cable that was flashed to Canada's Military High Command, requesting Canadian authorization for an affirmative action on entering the country, multiple strategic airlift aircraft would take off from NEAB Dow. These aircraft would head directly for Central Canada, making plans for setting up a forward expeditionary operations headquarters, the planes carrying the vanguard of what would become a full military assistance mission to aid Canada against its the multitude of foes arraying against it.

Air-to-air refueling tankers, AWACS, electronic warfare/attack aircraft, strategic reconnaissance aircraft (including stripped down versions of the [i]Phantom[/i] Stealth Strategic Bomber), as well as a duo of airborne command posts would also make the journey to Central Canada. These aircraft would not fly unguarded, however, with well over three hundred of the newest [i]Banshee[/i] Stealth Fighters, and a cohort of sixty [i]Phantom[/i] Stealth Strategic Bombers flying with them, all of them armed with air-to-air armament, including the [i]Phantoms[/i], which carried missile truck configurations. The aerial armada, once given a final green light from the Canadian military's high command echelon, would proceed westward at all haste, flying at minimal altitude across the darken Canadian landscape in the dead of night towards Saskatchewan, and various designated landing sites around Saskatoon.

Upon their arrival, if they got the affirmative nod from Canada's general staff at all, crews would camouflage the deployments with netting and finding as much cover for their aircraft as possible, utilizing municipal airports and their hangers for the aircraft, particularly fighters. While aircraft would land, the modified [i]Phantom[/i] Strategic Stealth Bombers would proceed at all haste towards Northeast British Columbia/Northwest Alberta, and would begin collecting ELINT and SIGINT intelligence. The modified [i]Phantoms[/i], stripped of their bomb loads, were lighter then their heavy-hauling bomber cousins, and able to reach higher speeds, as well as have a longer range. The aircraft would loiter in these regions, behind the front lines, well out of harms way, but able to haul ass away from danger if needed.

Back at home, air defense preparations began in earnest as maritime air patrols continued off the coast, as a few of the newest vessels of the New England Navy, mostly submarines, formed protective patrol patterns off the coast of the country. Inland, mobile surface-to-air missile units would begin camouflaging positions, setting up their "shoot-and-scoot" patterns, with a high concentration of these forces near the coast, protecting the more heavily industrialized interior of the Confederation. The air defense network was layered, with mobile anti-aircraft guns posted amongst the mobile SAM sites, and LAV-AD CIWS vehicles also interspersed amongst these units heavily. Bases and large cities were the main focus of air defenses, which would form protective rings around the largest and most key strategic cities. The defense networks of the Confederation compartmentalized, the servers all reverting to internal defense servers with no external access to these systems. Along the long coastline, mobile launchers of supersonic anti-ship missiles would camouflage themselves, getting into pre-war positions for defending the Confederation's coastline, using netting, terrain, and buildings to mask their positions.

Aircraft would be spread out amongst various bases and airports, with there being so many municipal airports across Greater New England, there were a plentiful amount of runways and small hangers that could house half a dozen fighters here, half a dozen fighters there. Air patrols were established out of the main bases, while fighters posted at municipal airports would be kept in reserve for when they would be needed. With the NEWSNet still going through its software teething, the Confederation was able to maintain command and control through more manual means. The coordination abilities of the NEWSNet were still useful however, especially coordinating the mobile and fixed radar systems of multiple frequencies, including AESA, bistatic, low-frequency, many of them frequency-hopping radars, while high-resolution quantum-well infrared spectrum cameras with long-range capabilities scanned the sky to detect and track anomalies.

Troops would be spread out across the countryside to avoid being bunched up, mostly posted in battalion-sized bivouacs, avoiding large bases, and carrying extra ammunition, fuel, and spare parts for their vehicles and equipment. These dispersed forces would make use of whatever camouflage or terrain they could for their bivouacs, utilizing the heavy forests of New England to mask their locations, and keeping their vehicles off to mask any infrared sightings. Other ground forces, mostly maintenance and rearmament crews for the NEAF, would be loaded aboard trains and vehicle convoys, which would strike out for Central Canada provided they were allowed in the borders. Moving at night, these forces would rumble across the countryside, a mixed bag of Humvees, five-ton trucks, tractor-trailers, aerosans, and more.

[KaiserMelech Mikhail]

LAND WAR:
"AYZN PARSHTELN!"
Iron Shield, a tactical retreat, was the ultimate strategy now. The Canadians outnumbered the Marscurian soldiers by more than 3 to 1. Barely into Canadian territory when the order went out, a massive rearrangement of forces was necessary, something that would be very difficult under such heavy fire. The main battle tanks and tank destroyers that were leading the army would push forward to engage the Canadian armor that was currently shelling the infantry. From the rear of the heavy tanks would also pull forward, and with their heavy armor and dual 130mm cannons, they would bear the brunt of the assault against the Canadian armor and troops. This line of tanks was what composed the Iron Shield. Meanwhile, the RPG teams would move from the road into the trees and the hills that surrounded it. Able to simply run between the trees, they would try to flank any vehicle that the Canadians sent against the main army. Their main targets were the tanks, with the tandem rounds able to pierce both ERA and thick metal armor. Other targets would be APCs, IFVs, and troop transports. For further targets, recoilless rifles would be able to rain death on tanks, armored vehicles, and pillboxes and machine gun nests. While the Iron Shield attempted their best to destroy as much of the attacking Canadians as possible, the rest of the army turned and ran back to Alaska. Once they were back on the Imperial side of the border, the tanks and RPG teams would attempt to escape back onto that side of the border. Meanwhile, the heavy 155mm and 175mm artillery pieces were arranged in several packed fire bases along with anti-aircraft artillery to take down any attack helicopters that may try to destroy the artillery.

Once the tanks made it back, or they were all destroyed, the artillery would unleash hell on the Canadians. The coordinates were relayed by recon planes that circled the battlefield above, pointing out masses of Canadian troops, fortification, or artillery. Meanwhile, the 40 land-based fighters were sent out to target Canadian aircraft of all types. Using missiles, they would attempt to shoot down any helicopter or attack aircraft that tried strafing the retreating troops. If it was a bomber, they would circle around and target the engines with their guns to save missiles.

SEA WAR:
The war at sea was a bigger disaster than the war on land. Blockading a major city like Vancouver put the Third Fleet square in the sights of a major Canadian fortification. Of the 15 ships in the fleet, every single one was hit by several missiles. Since all missiles hit above the waterline, none of the ships were sinking, but substantial hits to weapons systems, superstructures, radars, and other vital areas contributed to thousands of casualties for the fleets, and the immediate withdrawal of all the ships. They would certainly not be returning for the remainder of the war. This was a major setback, as the 3rd fleet held all the big gun ships, and was the main foreign assault fleet. This left the 13 ships of the 2nd Fleet as the only vessels remaining to enforce the Canadian blockade. The force included 5 frigates with advanced sonar systems and anti-submarine mortars to destroy any subs that attempted to attack the three aircraft carriers that were at the center of the fleet. At the same time, all available fighter aircraft and helicopters were on around-the-clock duty to watch out for any attack from the skies including UAVs and bomber aircraft. As a precaution, the 2nd fleet would move itself 50 miles further from the shore.

Under as much power as they could muster, the crippled ships of the third fleet limped back to the Horde port of Vladivostok. They would remain there until they could travel to Globukiye Vodishtot in April for a complete repair in drydock.

Edited February 24, 2012 by KaiserMelech Mikhail

[MostGloriousLeader]

The following message was hand delivered to the Canadian Ambassador in Washington D.C.

[font="Courier New"][quote][u][b]TOP SECRET[/b][/u]
TO: CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
FROM: AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMENT OF STATE
TOPIC: CANADIAN WAR

IN SPITE OF OUR NATION'S GENERALLY NEUTRAL/APATHETIC OUTLOOK ON WORLD AFFAIRS, AS WELL AS THE LACK OF A DEFENSE TREATY BETWEEN OUR NATIONS OR ANY REALLY MEANINGFUL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS FOR THAT MATTER, WE ARE INQUIRING AS TO IF YOU WOULD BE ACCEPTING OF OUR OFFER OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE. WE REGRET THAT OUR FULL CAPABILITIES CANNOT BE BROUGHT TO BEAR DUE TO PRACTICAL AND POLITICAL CONCERNS BUT NONETHELESS WE WISH TO HELP IN SOME FORM. WE CANNOT HELP BUT FEEL THAT TIANXIA MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE A HAND BEHIND THIS. EVEN REGARDLESS OF THAT POSSIBILITY THIS UNPROVOKED INVASION ASSISTED BY A NATION ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD HAS NO POSITIVE IMPLICATIONS.[/quote][/font]

[Domingo the Honored]

The entire available Cyrantian infantry, all four armies of 70,000 soldiers, were packed into ships and set off from the coast. The military had been stationed strategically at the location to prepare for their leaving, and the time had come. Their plan was certainly not fool-proof, but it had its advantages, and the men were sent to carry out their orders. The north-eastern coast was the starting point, from there they sailed as a fleet of unarmed and incognito cargo ships towards Canada. They did not have military landing ships but the plan had been formulated around that fact, and with the element of surprise on their side they knew it could be done. They sailed for Cannon Beach, Oregon, a small beach town in the very northwestern corner of the region. It was a small and insignificant place, and certainly unlikely to receive an attack of nearly 300,000 men, but that insignificance would hopefully aid the landing.

The fleet of ships approached the Oregonian coast at Cannon Beach in the early morning. Their attack was a blitz, in which all of the ships were to hit the beach almost simultaneously, which they did. The ships beached violently but accomplished their task, and in a short while 280,000 fully armed soldiers poured out of the hulls. Half of the men rushed for the shore emplacements and opened fire with their assault rifles, backed up by their fellows nearer the water. The other half pushed in the direction of the small town of Cannon Beach, their real target. They hoped to end the skirmish quickly and quietly so the second phase of their operation could commence without issue.

[KaiserMelech Mikhail]

From the English-Language issue of Marscurian News
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[Evangeline Anovilis]

Altough there was a fair distance between the fighting in the former New Portugal and the state of Nouvelle-Vicidalia, the fact it was the same continent and not just a small dispute, but indeed an invasion by the Horde made the war a matter that could not go unignored.

[b]Classified Message to Canada
[quote]
To: Canadian Foreign Ministry
From: Lisette de Nouvelle Beziérs
Subject: The Canadian War[/b]

To our fellow Americans,

As we have no ties with neither canada nor the Horde, we are currently not thinking of entering this war on any side, but as it still is fought on the soil of this continent, we would ask Canada to allow a small group of Vicidalian observers, in order to allow us to get a better understanding of the situation on the frontlines. after all, this could easily become a matter concerning us all and the lack of stated war objectives from the Hordes side makes us fear that this war may engulf the whole of the continent, should this attack not be stopped already in your territory. Our delegation will not be involved in any planning or combat unless attacked, but it shall serve as a direct connection between our countries in these months and as a monitoring team for the frontline war situation.

With regards,
[i]Lisette de Nouvelle Beziérs[/i]
[b]Ministre des affairs étrangeres de Nouvelle-Vicidalia[/b][/quote]

[Triyun]

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The Canadian Ministry of Defense had watched the military 'exercises' taking place in the neighboring Northern Imperium for some time now. Nevertheless, it was surprised by an outright invasion, especially with the hostile message received from the Imperium just prior to the attack and the blatant lies spewed by Marscurian Siberia. Naval bases located near Tofino and Victoria in Alta Vancavite (Vancouver Island), and near Westport and Ocean Shores in the Province of Alberquerque (Washington State) reported the presence of Siberian military vessels. Luckily enough, the Ministry of Defense had responded to the exercises in kind.

From a paltry 5,000 troops and 100 tanks, to over 300,000 troops reinforced with 2,500 tanks and 1,500 heavy artillery pieces, Canadian forces were concentrated in the mountainous region between the border and Yukon City (Whitehorse), a certain distance away from the border. Heavy equipment had been brought in to bolster the border guard - Juggernaut II Main Battle Tanks, Titans and Abrams Tanks upgraded with the 'Tank Urban Survival Kit' (TUSK).

As reports of heavy fighting alongside the border, as heavy-armed border guards of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), and some individual infantry units, fought valiantly to hold the invaders at bay, filtered into the headquarters of the Canadian Military High Command, military commanders and strategists debated, in a hastily-convened emergency meeting with the Lord Protectors, on how to deal with the rapidly-evolving situation and to develop an overall defensive strategy aimed at repulsing the invasion. It was decided that Canada would not fold in face of ludicrious attempt by foreign powers to destroy Canada and its integrity; she would fight back and fight hard. The invaders would pay for their folly with every drop of their blood. Every drop.

Facing a war on two fronts, one in Africa and now one at her western border, Canada was duly placed on DEFCON 1, the highest level ever issued in her history. Nearly 800,000 troops in the New Portugal Region, already in full alert given the earlier orders issued by the Defense Ministry, prepared to fight for their country. [b]Operation PATRIOT[/b] was launched, with RADAR and PAVE PAWS bases entering full operations as the three branches of the Canadian military readied to work together in repelling the invasion. To begin off with, UAV drones were dispatched to scan Canadian waters off the coast of Alta Vancavite and Alberquerque, pinpoint the position of Siberian military ships and designate them as targets for anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) that were to be launched; AWACs were also dispatched for the same purpose, defended by several squadrons of interceptors that were tasked with neutralizing any threats to the AWACs. In turn, about ten to fifteen submarines would be dispatched to scout out the locations of the Siberian blockade; metric $%&@tons of ASBMs would be launched from land, from aircrafts, and from the submarines in large numbers to destroy or severely cripple the ships. Missiles such as the Kh-22 and low-flying long-ranged cruise missiles like the Kh-55 would be used for this purpose.

At the same time, airfields and airbases near Yukon City were buzzing with frenzied activity as twenty squadrons of F/A-66 Light Weight Fighters, EF-50 Banshees, and the T-50Cs (totalling 240 aircrafts) lifted up into the air with orders to engage the threat. The F-66s would engage the fighters for the most part, utilizing their stealth features to gain an advantage. The T-50Cs, with their supercruise engines, would lift off their bases inland and fly toward the enemy aircrafts at full speed. With their powerful full body 360 degree AESA, the T-50Cs would be able to detect enemy aircrafts, using radar in at a squadron level as a networked multi-static radar. The EF-50, in particularly, was to wage electronic warfare on enemy aircrafts, and the F-35 was to provide close air support for Canadian ground forces and perform accordingly. In turn, five squadrons of stealth bombers (Tu-160 Heaven's Fury S and B-2 Shadow, totalling 60 aircrafts) would launch operations against enemy targets on the ground, dropping munitions upon them. Tactical ballistic missiles would be launched in scores at enemy positions and advances as to wreak havoc and inflict casualties upon the enemy, and provide assistance to Canadian ground forces; they would target built-up air defenses and tank columns, among others.

On the ground, as aircrafts flew abroad and missiles whizzed overhead, thousands of troops stationed near the city of Dawson were rushed to the front in order to relieve the beleaguered border guards, and if possible, to plug in any gaps that may have developed in their defense, and failing that, to stage a limited retreat as to minimize casualties while inflicting major damage to the invaders in the process. As for the reminder, the hundreds of thousands of troops throughout the Yukon began digging in their positions, especially in mountaineous regions like the Brooks Range and part of the Interior Mountains, among others. Teams of defenders would cover themselves with IR-proofed tarps and lay low to avoid (or minimize) detection by enemy UAVs, and pop up at appropriate times to engage the enemy that appeared in sight. They would utilize MBTs to target enemy troop transports and tanks; Tor systems would not only be used to shoot down hellfire missiles, but also UAVs, helicopters, low-flying cruise missiles, and low-flying aircrafts, and they would be supported in turn by Tunguskas and C-RAM units, which would target artillery shells. In addition, they would be armed with MANPADS such as Stingers and Starstreaks to target the enemy Apaches. In some cases, the defenders would utilize EFOGMs (enhanced fiber optic guided missile) to target the enemy helicopters, troop transports and tanks they encountered; EFOGMs would be particularly useful, for they would not be easily jammed by the enemy. The IR-proofed tarp teams would be separate from dug-in tanks, Tors, Tunguskas, and C-RAM units; once they had fired MANPAD missiles or EFOGMs in small numbers at the enemy, they would displace, cover themselves again, and repeat.

To deal with any enemy breakthroughs, the Canadians would show that the enemy was not the only one that used helicopters; they would deploy hunter killer teams of helicopter gunships, flying at low altitudes, to launch (in other words, spam) missiles at enemy mechanized units on the ground as well enemy Apaches. Surface-scanning radars would, in fact, be used to find Apaches. To deal with enemy SAMs on the battlefield, fighters already up in the air along with additional ones lifting up into the air would proceed to perform SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) operations, launching long-ranged cruise missiles to target enemy battlefield and theater SAMs and AAAs, and anti-radiation missiles at their radars, with the intentions of putting them out of operation. To deal with enemy aircrafts, SAM launchers such as the Patriot PAC-1 (in other words, the MIM-104B Patriot), PAC-2/GEM (MIM-104D), and PAC-3 (MIM-104F) went into operation, launching missiles to target the aircrafts, especially the stealth bombers (which would lose some stealth while they were opening their bomb bay doors). In addition, the Canadians would utilize mobile SHORAD (short tange air defense), especially the ADATS (air defense anti-tank system) - which would work with Tors and Tunguskas - to deal with tanks and aircrafts.

From behind the Canadian lines, SS-26 Stone tactical ballistic missiles would be launched, utilizing radar terminal guidance and (in some case) electro-optical guidance to target enemy armored columns, SAM/RADAR sites, and/or forward operating bases. Fighters (these not currently engaging the enemy up in the air or escorting AWACs) would drop cluster munitions in rough terrain areas such as hills or valleys to target enemy tanks. Any enemy advance were to be met by cruise missiles armed with cluster warheads, which strove to deal as much damage as possible. The Defense Ministry was glad the Army Corps of Engineers had been working, for some time in peacetime, on installing powerful anti-tank mines and anti-personnel in mountains, hills, and valleys, especially narrow passes. As soon the invasion began, the Army Corps of Engineers intensified the process of laying mines, particularly in the Yukon. The mines would serve as a nasty surprise for the enemy, and the defenders would make sure the enemy never had the time to even get close to the mines (let alone know exactly where they were) to defuse or demine them.

Once the aerial defense systems did their part, the second wave of F/A-66s and mostly T-50Cs, joined in by F/B-23 Strike Widows, would be launched in large numbers (thirty squadrons of aircrafts, or 360 aircrafts, in addition to any surviving aircrafts of the first wave) to engage any surviving enemy fighters and interceptors. AWACs would be used extensively, under heavy fighter protection, to pinpoint the enemy (especially F-22s and F-23s) and try to destroy them.

The enemy would see that any attempt to seize Calgari (Calgary), and even Yukon City itself, would be riven with much difficulty, and involve much blood-letting. Canada's rough terrain coupled with its vast size (Calgari was over 2,500 km away from the NI border) and a people determined to defend their country combined together to create a highly-formidable obstacle the invaders had to surmount if they were to succeed in their invasion.
[/quote]

[quote]You were warned about the Pacific[/quote]

As ASBMs fired over the Pacific, the boost phases would ping off of the OTH radar systems lining the Alaskan line. Information was rapidly then coordinated to the missile defenses surrounding the area. RIM-6 missiles were rapidly launched from Fort Beihai and Various missile cruisers, using their enhanced boost packs to begin engaging ASBMs in boost phase, before they could build up speed.

In space meanwhile, the Tianxia space forces would use S-1 and S-2 craft to begin initiating a blockade of the space assets the Canadians would utilize. In LEO, S-1s would use directed energy to do targeted jamming of Canadian Satellites which would move over the battle space, preventing the Canadian ground systems from coordinating with the space borne assets. At the same time MEO navigation satellites and GEO communications satellites would be engaged by the Tianxia Space forces much larger S-2 craft, deploying localized high powered white noise jammers which could seize up the satellites across a broad range of frequencies blocking the capability of the enemy to use either smart bombs or do data link coordination between planes. In many cases, Tianxia would simply put objects in front of the satellites making communication near impossible. At the same time these forces would begin doing a massive signal data mining operation on Canadian capabilities.

SIGINT space assets of the Tianxia forces meanwhile would begin reporting back the data analysis on the frequencies which both the PAVE-PAW radars and other OTH radars were emitting, and forwarding them to strategic command, along with the locations of those radars within Canada.

Using this information, the Strategic Command forces in Japan began target acquisition the enemy's primary radar capability and outfiting the Talon Global Prompt Strike package to engage it. The principle method of doing this was programing the eight Talons ICCMs used for the mission operation to operate its RAM material along the frequencies used by the enemy OTH radar. Once launched, these units would rapidly accelerate to Mach 20 before reaching their target. Because they would absorb the OTH radar signals, this meant they would be exceedingly difficult to see until they were within a few hundred kilometers of the target. Once within this range, their DRFM jammers would feed enemy targeting bad data, while in the final boost seperation phase the units would employ anti-IR countermeasures to prevent targeting.

Rapidly following on the Talon Strike, Tianxia F-5 squadrons were launched from bases in the Aleutians and Fort Beihai, totaling 10 Squadrons. This would be supplemented by 2 F-3 Squadrons flying on normal jet super cruise to remain stealthy. Supporting them were a flight mix of flying wing stealthy skyhawk AWACs and EWACs, all operating on passive for the initial approach. Using the satellite coordinated information about enemy radar signals, the spread out flight would fully exploit the geographic weaknesses in enemy radar coverage to get as close as possible with little chance of detection. This was further assisted, by both the planes stealth characteristics, and their RAM capabilities. In fact it would allow them to locate the canadian radar sweeps before the Canadians had a chance to locate them.

As enemy AWACs began scanning, the F-3s accelerated, using their RAMJETs to slip the enemy defense net, they'd fire at about 200 kilometers out their NGTAMs which were equipped with dual passive radar homing/ spoof resistant EO/IR guidance systems to home in and destroy enemy AWACs. Firing two missiles at each of the AWACs, as well as three missiles at each of the Tu-160 Sinos in the combat area (which btw, JED are not stealthy ). The interceptors then would rush back to bases in the rear as the real air battle began.

EWACs would begin homing in on enemy radar frequencies of fighters, and send back drfm jamming signals giving them false signals of where to engage enemy targets forcing the expenditure of fuel. But at the same time, tailored data streams would begin being sent with the jamming information, infecting the enemy battle net with a worm attack. In some ways the Canadians would be fortunate here because with reduced satellite capability they could only do line of site communication, which limited their data sharing capabilities, but those aircraft that could network would now be subject to dangerous cyber attack. The worms would begin by removing the cooling systems on the radar systems they were engaging as well as targeting the fuel pressures on aircraft engines giving two tendencies for the canadian aircraft to explode during malfunction. At the same time it would be designed as well to totally $%&@ up sensors, making it even harder to engage the incoming force of F-5 Super Quantums.

F-5s would home in on Canadian radar signals using them to direct their highly countermeasure resistant EO/IR scopes. From 120 kilometers the F-5s would begin launching missiles with both EO/IR and passive guidance against the enemy fighter groups. Their primary goal would be the destruction of the high capability EF-50s, which would with the jamming likely begin to drop before the Canadians had a damn blue what the hell was going on.

This was rapidly followed on by using the EO/IR systems to home in on the F/A-66s whose primary weakness was their IR signature. They would be hit by the second of the one two punch, being simultaneously engaged by the same group of F-5 air crafts as they continued to move in across the battle space.

As this was happening, the skyhawk AWACs came online, using their radars to do pencil beam energy attacks against Canadian Ground to Air Defense radars, hitting them with huge surges of energy and cyber attack to blind them as the F-5s began their game against the Canadian Adversary.

This attack was followed on by a large formation of Bombers flying over the Bering Strait. 48 B-11s would receive targeting information about the mass of Canadian Forces and the airfields they launched from. The B-11s would engage 1000 ER-M-51 hypersonic cruise missiles to engage all the airfields in the Yukon and nearby simultaneously to leave many a Canadian aircraft in the air burning fuel while not having any runways to refuel, forcing the bases that would survive into a logistical nightmare, where planes would start to run out of fuel and drop from the sky that way after doing highly fuel costly airfield defense missions.

[Generalissimo]

Procinctia has continued to politely voice concerns about Northern Imperium’s invasion yet Alaska refuses to acknowledge our existence.
What minor disagreements that may have existed between our respective nations could have been resolved by informing us aware of the issue(s). . .
– maybe without resorting to preemptive undeclared invasions?
Had the Imperium’s Empress Mara Lithaen bothered to return our persistent, to the point of stalking, calls perhaps it wouldn’t come to this.
We still prefer resolution without violence, but words only go so far.
Procinctians cannot yield to Northern Imperium’s continued unjust occupation of Procinctia!
Procinctia’s Resistance backs Canada’s defiance to the Alaskan menace complete full support.

Procinctia’s Resistance authorizes the creation of a Procinctian Resisance Militia in Canada.
These forces will be composed of Procinctian expatriates, Canadians who support Procinctia’s liberation, and anyone else willing to fight for a free Procinctia

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Edited February 27, 2012 by Generalissimo

[Mara Lithaen]

Captain Wallace brought her F/B-23 to a streaming stop, a dozen 20mm holes in her fuselage that had thankfully not found anything truly vulnerable (including one Moriah Wallace) to damage. Some of the other pilots in her group couldn't say the same, though, and were strewn across the Canadian countryside. The assault had, for what it was worth, fared well – casualties were heavy, but lighter than expected across the board, minus those of the B-2s, who had lost one bird entirely and taken various states of damage on a half dozen others. Of all the air groups, she thought, the 12th Strike Air’s A-10 Warthogs had taken the least damage and dished out the most carnage in return – the 12th had confirmed well over two hundred vehicular kills, mainly of the Main Battle Tank and APC variety. Moriah had a modest four tanks and a shattered company to her own name, all while being chased by an absolutely stubborn Canadian fighter who had clung to her every move, harassing her with 20mm fire and Sidewinders before one Major Tannenbaum had moseyed over from the 39th Air Superiority and revoked the pilot’s wings rather insistently via the use of a dogfighting Starstreak-B canister missile to the thrust cans.

Meanwhile…
The Army’s artillery made their presence known, the M109A7s and MLRS-201 launchers making a heady nuisance of themselves with their cluster munitions and unitary warheads. The A7s traveled en masse, their 155mm guns thundering five times every time they stopped, fired and timed so that every single round landed on target at the same time, and then moved on – all the while, another group was beginning their firing sequence. The fast A7s pounded the Canadians’ Yukon mountaintop positions relentlessly, even through the casualties they took in the valleys and on the hilltops of the broken terrain of the NW Territory.

The Imperial MLRS-201s followed the main column more sedately, stopping for just long enough to lob a few satellite-guided cluster munitions towards targets designated by the lead elements of the force on the route to the town of Haines Junction and I-1. For some odd reason, the Canadians seemed to be focused in the northern half of Canada, but that was fine for the Imperials. 1500 M1A3 TUSK Abrams and 200,000 troops thundered towards Haines – 800 MBTs and 150,000 troops looped up behind the Canadians’ mountaintop positions, gunning for Yukon City under the support of fully a third of the Imperial Air Force, with Tianxian fighters not far behind. The other two thirds of the Air Force was focused on the Haines ground force, codenamed Sturm.

The smaller ground force, Jaeger, took a beating as it advanced northwards, losing some 20% of its MBTs and a similar number of IV90120s and APCs to enemy fire, though the personnel casualty rate was slightly lower, due to the massive emphasis Imperial engineers had placed on survivability among the Imperium’s fighting vehicles. The casualties could have been far, far higher, bad as they were, because it appeared that a lucky artillery strike or air strike had beheaded parts of the command structure early in the fighting.

The Sturm force moved south at the same time, coming up against heavy resistance, and AH-64E Apaches flurried out in front of the main Sturm spearhead, playing cat-and-mouse with Canadian AA, SAMs and MANPADs, taking fairly heavy losses in exchange for destroying a large number of enemy vehicles and personnel, clearing the way for the M1A3s’ charge, their M256A1 main guns spitting death towards the defenders as the Imperials surged to take Haines Junction and secure a supply route for the Imperium.

Edited March 5, 2012 by Mara Lithaen

[Triyun]

With Canadian Capabilities severely destroyed casualties were assessed as the following:

90% degradation of Canadian Satellite Capabilities in the Western Part of the Country
89 EF-50 Screaming Banshees Lost to F-5s
30 EF-50 Screaming Banshees Lost to Cyber attack
65 F/A-66 Lost to F-5s
15 Lost to Cyber attack
50 Lost to refueling issues
70 T-50s lost to F-5s
90% of AWACs lost to F-3s
All Tu-160 Sinos Lost to F-3s
Destruction of 85% of Air to Air fields within range to launch fighters in the North
Destruction of All OTH Sites on the West Coast

Tianxia forces would remain silent as the second round of attacks was upcoming, instead deploying a forward phalanx of 24 F-1s, 18 F-5s, 48 F-6s with AWAC and EWAC support to protect the Tianxia bases.

Meanwhile, outside of Early Warning systems fields of view, in Antarctica, 30 'scientific' heavy lift boosters would be launched to place payloads into Polar Orbits.