Havana Blues

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HAVANA BLUES v1.00 for DW - Reinforce Alert >=v1.51 by Puma

Difficulty: ****

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Controllable platforms:

SSBN K-535 Yury Dolgorukiy (Borey)

SSN K-335 Gepard (Akula III) with deep submergence rescue vehicle AS-36 (Poisk-2)

Of course, you can choose any available type of controllable submarine.

The mission is extensive and over extremely long distances - long playing time, only for hardened submariners.

Randomly generated civilian, military air traffic and ocean fauna.

Your submarine's starting position is selected from 12 random areas ranging from the Florida coast to Crooked Island - ensuring a variety of possible tactics and mission approaches given the bottom profile at each location.

No matter how you want to reach Havana, you'll always be faced with warships (up to 9 total + anti-submarine helicopters from their decks), submarines (up to 9 total), including several British and Dutch Navy vessels, and the US Navy's P-8A Poseidon and P-3C anti-submarine patrol leotards.

Each mission launched will be unique.




Two mission types for both controllable platforms:

1.) (Peacetime - default)

HQ: Commander, as a result of our trip and the heightened tensions, the U.S. Navy has declared a naval blockade of all Russian military vessels bound for Cuba. We assume these are just idle threats from the Yanks. Continue your journey to Havana with the group of ships led by Admiral Gorshkov, which is near Cape Canaveral on course 190 and closely shielding U.S. territorial waters, entering Havana harbor tomorrow evening around 10 p.m. The Commander-in-Chief has ordered you to use all available non-nuclear means in self-defense to suppress the active threat. Sail undetected into Havana harbor through all U.S. Navy patrols.

2.) (War Time - enforce the US naval blockade by force - trigger it by launch one passive decoy within 1 minute of launch)

HQ: Commander, full combat readiness. As a result of our travel and the increase in tensions, the US Navy has declared a naval blockade of all Russian military vessels bound for Cuba. We assume these are just idle threats from the Yanks. Continue your journey to Havana with SSGN 266 Orel, which is located 150 nmi northeast of Havana and will arrive in port in 15 hours. The Commander-in-Chief has ordered you to use all available non-nuclear weapons in self-defense to suppress the active threat.

One special mission for SSN K-335 Gepard (Akula III) with deep submergence rescue vehicle AS-36 (Poisk-2) - trigger it by launch one passive decoy within 1 minute of launch)

This mission is a continuation of variant 2. ), where you sail with K-266 Orel (OSCAR II) to Havana, and is extended to include an incident that occurs at an unknown time (it will be either immediately or within a few hours), when the K-266 Orel is sunk by the US Navy (accidentally or fatally - no one knows) and severely damaged (radiation leak from the reactor and destroyed salvage pod) sinks to the bottom somewhere in Florida Bay with 19 surviving sailors trapped (each time at a different randomly selected location at depths between 500 and 850m - you don't get her exact location, but with a misidentification error of up to 20 nmi and you have to find her somehow - ideally by sonar (but this can reveal you at great distances from enemy naval patrols).

And your task, among other things, will be to try to rescue the sailors trapped in the wreck of a submarine lying on the bottom, when they have a few days' supply of air. This mission is only available when you select the K-335 Gepard nuclear attack submarine, as it carries the DSRV Poisk-2 and you select it by default with the "war time" option (launch passive decoy). This is not the end of this mission though, if you manage to rescue the sailors and get them on your submarine's DSRV AS-36, you will receive further orders over the radio from HQ. The mission to Havana will be aborted and the new order is - conduct a parity retaliation and sink one US attack submarine off the east coast of the US whereupon you will become the hunted game (unless you already are and your presence was not detected until the rescue of the sailors) and you will have no choice but to make your way through the many enemy naval patrols to the Atlantic Ocean to the designated area, whether by brute force or by subterfuge is your choice.

 

One special mission for SSBN K-535 Yury Dolgorukiy (Borey) - trigger it by launch one active decoy within 1 minute of launch

The mission starts as a classic variant 2) for Borey, but at a random time (it can be up to several tens of hours) this mission is activated.

HQ: Commander, mission to Havana cancelled full combat alert. A few tens of minutes ago, a French strategic nuclear strike was launched by a pair of Rafale aircraft from the southwestern Black Sea region with a pair of 300kt ASMP-A missiles on Novoro
ssiysk and Sochi. The Commander-in-Chief decided to inflict devastating de-escalating limited NATO strategic nuclear retaliation on the coastal cities of Florida, a task entrusted to you Commander. The positional area to conduct the retaliatory strategic deterrent rocket strike is located in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nmi east of Cherokee and the Abaco Islands, reach it as quickly as possible in maximum concealment, upon reaching the positional area conduct a radio reauthorization of the rocket strike. TARGETS: 1) Key West, 2) NAS Key West, 3) Miami, 4) Stuart, 5) Cape Canaveral, 6) Tampa, 7) Sarasota, 8) Fort Myers, 9) Naples.

There is a 30% probability that the US strategic nuclear forces will respond to this limited retaliatory strategic rocket strike on the Florida coast and all missions that started innocently enough will still fail. And you will be informed of that:

Commander, it's fu*ked! HQ is reporting on the emergency frequency that the US is responding with a massive retaliatory strategic nuclear strike on the Russian Federation, minutes ago all major cities in Europe were destroyed by tactical nuclear strikes. F*ck! I suggest that the crew vote and pick an island in French Polynesia, we'll head there and start our new short life there, along with submariners from other countries who I'm sure are also sailing there. MISSION FAILED. EARTH FAILED.

P.S. The resemblance to the K-561 Kazan cruise that ended yesterday and Admiral Gorshkov's trip to Havana is purely coincidental, but the story inspired me to create these missions.

 

[Stewy1]

Wow - this looks incredible and very thorough! Thanks for making this!

[pitti]

Thank you