SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Operation Labuan

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/dow...o=file&id=6371

It's Tuesday, October 15, 1996. Bill Clinton is the U.S. President . The top movies are 'Long Kiss Goodnight', 'Michael Collins' and 'Ghost in the Darkness'.

The top songs are Los Del Rio's 'Macarena', Donna Lewis' 'I Love you Always Forever' and Celine Dion's 'It's all Coming Back to Me Now'.

Five days ago, USS Thach chopped from COMSEVENTHFLT to Maritime Commander, Australia (MCAUST) and left Fleet Bast West, in Western Australia, to demonstrate an intelligence collection mission on illegal fishing vessels in the Australian Heard and McDonald islands EEZ.

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The southern Indian Ocean is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. Characterised by high winds and heavy seas, it is known as the ‘screaming fifties’. Cold water affects ship structures and can cause hypothermia for crew. Man overboard as well as operating in boats are a risk.

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Freezing weather can make hulls brittle. Support vessels will often remain 200NM or more north of the Heard Island – allowing them to be in warmer water.

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This mission goes for a little less than 6-7 days and was made with RA 1.50.3. I believe it's compatible with later versions.

Constructive feedback welcome via the Subsim Forums.

The best feature about this mission is that all voice sounds have been replaced with the excellent AI voices from llElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io/ It took a lot of effort, but it's a massive improvement in sounds!

Don't want to give too much away, but this mission could have some challenges! ;)
Stewy

INSTALLATION
Place all of the files in the 'Scenario' folder into your 'Scenario' folder in DW.

BUGS
None found in testing.

LEGAL STUFF
All military aspects and research are from 'OSINT' (open source intelligence). Naturally, downloading this mission is at your own risk.

This mission is fictitious.

Further Information:
Podcast on Royal Australian Navy Patrols in the HIMI EEZ
https://soundcloud.com/australian-na...southern-ocean