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Agiel7 · 03-01-13, 01:01 AM

I remember reading Guests of the Ayatollah where once it became clear it would be a drawn out crisis, some Pentagon guys were given the task of drawing up a rescue operation, then two days later were brought before the Joint Chiefs to present whatever they came up with. Of course, on such short notice, it wasn't much of a plan at all, and the unfortunate soul who was in the hot seat had to deliver this with the caveat that a better plan could be made given more time, and he began with: "Obviously we don't want to do this..."

The plan was to para-drop commandos near a road into Tehran that was known to have quite a lot of truck traffic. They would then hijack the trucks they needed, drive to the embassy, free the hostages, then fight their way 300 miles to the Turkish border. The planner who delivered this finished it off by repeating "Obviously we don't want to do this."

That said, I thought of this: B-2s bomb the airstrips and hangars known to house the most dangerous elements of the Iranian armed forces (not that a bunch of poorly maintained F-4 Phantoms could pose much of a threat to F-15s). Rangers, Delta Force, and engineers would be dropped near the known underground nuclear facilities, along with Javelins and Humvees and jeeps with TOW launchers mounted on them to deal with Iranian armour. Should the Iranians scientists lock themselves into the nuclear processing facilities, the engineers would devise a method to contact the men inside and ask them nicely to open the doors so they can smash the centrifuges, and should they refuse, inform them that they have the means to breach the doors or prepare them in such a state that a laser-guided bunker buster could do it for them. The engineers also prepare makeshift FARPS for the helicopters that will extract them. While the engineers work, air escort and SEAD shooters punch air corridors into Iran not only so C-2 Greyhounds and C-17 Globemasters can resupply the ground troops by para drop, but also for CAS assets to assist the troops as well. If at all possible, the ground troops are to collect data that can prove the intentions of the Iranian nuclear program. Once that is done, the troops are extracted by helicopter after refueling from the FARPS built by the engineers.

Now obviously we don't want to do this.

03-01-13, 01:01 AM	#14
Agiel7 Gunner Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 97 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I remember reading Guests of the Ayatollah where once it became clear it would be a drawn out crisis, some Pentagon guys were given the task of drawing up a rescue operation, then two days later were brought before the Joint Chiefs to present whatever they came up with. Of course, on such short notice, it wasn't much of a plan at all, and the unfortunate soul who was in the hot seat had to deliver this with the caveat that a better plan could be made given more time, and he began with: "Obviously we don't want to do this..." The plan was to para-drop commandos near a road into Tehran that was known to have quite a lot of truck traffic. They would then hijack the trucks they needed, drive to the embassy, free the hostages, then fight their way 300 miles to the Turkish border. The planner who delivered this finished it off by repeating "Obviously we don't want to do this." That said, I thought of this: B-2s bomb the airstrips and hangars known to house the most dangerous elements of the Iranian armed forces (not that a bunch of poorly maintained F-4 Phantoms could pose much of a threat to F-15s). Rangers, Delta Force, and engineers would be dropped near the known underground nuclear facilities, along with Javelins and Humvees and jeeps with TOW launchers mounted on them to deal with Iranian armour. Should the Iranians scientists lock themselves into the nuclear processing facilities, the engineers would devise a method to contact the men inside and ask them nicely to open the doors so they can smash the centrifuges, and should they refuse, inform them that they have the means to breach the doors or prepare them in such a state that a laser-guided bunker buster could do it for them. The engineers also prepare makeshift FARPS for the helicopters that will extract them. While the engineers work, air escort and SEAD shooters punch air corridors into Iran not only so C-2 Greyhounds and C-17 Globemasters can resupply the ground troops by para drop, but also for CAS assets to assist the troops as well. If at all possible, the ground troops are to collect data that can prove the intentions of the Iranian nuclear program. Once that is done, the troops are extracted by helicopter after refueling from the FARPS built by the engineers. Now obviously we don't want to do this. Last edited by Agiel7; 03-01-13 at 01:18 AM.