Mediterranean Fury 3 Casbah Crunch

Mediterranean Fury 3 14 Feb 1994. The second day of World War Three, this is a companion to the Northern Fury series and the Northern Fury background document will give you a lot of the detailed history. In the Allied Forces South (AFSOUTH) Area of Operations (AO), the Soviets attempted an airborne and amphibious assault on the Bosporus in the opening hours of the war. This failed but it was a bold and bloody fight (Med Fury 1, not yet built), and linked to an attempted coup of the Turkish Government. Ankara is in lockdown and it is unclear how successful or not the coup actually was, news footage of street fighting, explosions and aircraft circling the city are airing around the world but the president of Turkey is still claiming power via radio broadcasts. Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary have joined the fight, seemingly reluctantly, and are contesting the airspace in Eastern Europe and the Balkans Nearly simultaneous to the attack in the Black Sea, a Container ship transiting through Port Suez exploded and caught fire; quick action by the local authorities pushed and towed it out to open water where it burned to the waterline and sank, but the Suez Canal remains open. During the first night of the war Syria made a surprise and somewhat uncoordinated attack on Israel through the Golan Heights supported by Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Beirut government has decried the violence but unrest is rapidly spreading and it very likely Lebanon will quickly plunge into a renewed civil war. (Med Fury 2, not yet built) NATO Situation: Although the situation is desperate at the moment, NATO is quite strong in the Mediterranean. · USS Eisenhower CVBG was conducting a training exercise off Corsica, several ships in the BG are dispersed but a long range ALPHA strike against the assaulting Soviet forces helped to stabilize the situation in the Bosporus. · USS Iowa TG along with the USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) are patrolling in the Eastern Med off Cyprus. · FS Clemenceau has n