Artic Sea - Sink the Tirpitz - Operation Tungsten

[dhyran]

SEC "Artic Sea - Sink the Tirpitz"
 an Aces Highİ event!

Event is open for everyone, welcome!

Start time 8:00pm UK, 21:00 CET, 10:00pm EET (Finland/Russia), 3:00pm EST next Sunday 24 october




Background
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HMS Victorious covered Russian convoys from January-March 1944, then took part in  Operation "Tungsten"
air strike against the German battleship Tirpitz, with HMS Victorious on 3 April 1944.
This was a first for British Naval aviation with the first comabt missions of the Corsair

Operation Tungsten was one of a number of aerial attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz
while she was in Norwegian waters (the Altenfjord) by the Fleet Air Arm (the air units of the Royal Navy).
Tungsten was scheduled for April 1944. Tirpitz was two weeks into trials after the end of
repairs resulting from the British X-craft attacks in September 1943.

The attack was to be two waves of dive bombers (Fairey Barracudas) protected by
naval fighters and led by the Strike Leader Lt Cdr Roy Baker-Falkner DSC RN.
The first planes took off on the morning of 3 April[1][2]. The bombers and their escorts
headed for the target, others to patrol around the carriers in case of German attack.

The first wave attacked while some of the fighters strafed the decks of the Tirpitz to
suppress anti-aircraft fire. The bombers of the first wave were carrying general purpose
bombs, which would prove effective against the lightly armoured AA positions and their
crews, alongside heavier armour-piercing bombs. An hour later the second wave attacked.
Again fighters strafed the Tirpitz from low level. By 08:30 the attacking aircraft
had landed on their carriers and the task force was turning for home.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tungsten



Frame 3:

Allies
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Bishops, 70% of participants

Planes available:
- F4U-1A, F4U-1D , F6F, Seafire
- TBM (substitute for the Swordfish) Minimum 25% must take a TBM


Orders:
-Start from C126 (HMS Furious) or C127 (HMS Fencer)
 C125 (HMS Pursuer) C128 (HMS Searcher)
-Primery target: Sink the Tirpitz, spotted at P55!!!

-Secondary target: protect own Fleet

Restrictions:
-None



Axis
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Knights, 30% of participants

Planes:
- 109G6 190A5
- JU88 Ju87


Orders:
-Primery target: Protect the Tirpitz!
-Secondary target: Find enemy fleet and attack
Enemy Fleet last spotted W to P 55

-Available bases A61, Ju 88 Ju 87
 A 59, A54 109G6 190A5


Arena Settings
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Terrains: Northsea
Event start, game time: 5:30
Time multiplier: 1.0
Icons: Icon range <1k (~2400), both friendly and enemy
Fuel Multiplier: 1.0
Radar: Axis - tower radar range 65000, dar bar range 150000 (about one full sector), 2min update rate
          Allies - Tower radar range 65000, 2min update rate
Killshooter: Off.
Friendly collisions: Off.
Kill messages: Off.
2 lives for every player.




designed and hosted by
dhyran

[zack1234]

hurrah! and Tally Ho!

do we have fog?

[dhyran]

hurrah! and Tally Ho!

do we have fog?

we have strong winds from NW ~ 25-35 knots

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dhy

[dhyran]

we will see a huge british fleet

historical action saw the biggest British fleet movement during WW2

Naval

Force I

    * HMS Duke of York - battleship
    * HMS Anson - battleship
    * HMS Victorious - aircraft carrier
    * HMS Belfast - cruiser
    * Destroyer escort group
          o HMS Onslaught
          o HMS Javelin
          o ORP Piorun
          o HMCS Sioux
          o HMCS Algonquin
    * 2nd Destroyer escort group (joined from the Faroes)
          o HMS Milne
          o HMS Meteor
          o HMS Matchless
          o HMS Marne
          o HMS Ursa
          o HMS Undaunted

Force II

    * HMS Bellona - light cruiser
    * HMS Royalist - light cruiser
    * HMS Searcher - escort carrier
    * HMS Emperor - escort carrier
    * HMS Pursuer - escort carrier
    * HMS Fencer - escort carrier
    * HMS Furious - aircraft carrier
    * HMS Sheffield - light cruiser
    * HMS Jamaica - light cruiser
    * Destroyers
          o HMS Virago
          o HMS Verulam
          o HMS Vigilant
          o HMS Swift
          o HMS Wakeful
    * Oilers
          o RFA Blue Ranger
          o RFA Brown Ranger

[edit] Air

    * No. 8 Wing (Furious)
          o 830 Naval Air Squadron, Fairey Barracuda
          o 827 Naval Air Squadron, Fairey Barracuda, (temporarily on Victorious)
          o Supermarine Seafire (force defence)
    * No. 52 Wing (Victorious)
          o 829 Naval Air Squadron Fairey Barracuda
          o 831 Naval Air Squadron, Fairey Barracuda (temporarily on Furious)
          o 1834 Naval Air Squadron, Chance-Vought Corsair
    * Searcher
          o 800 Naval Air Squadron Grumman Wildcat (20)
    * Pursuer
          o 881 Naval Air Squadron Wildcat (20)
    * Emperor
          o 882 Naval Air Squadron Grumman Hellcat (10)
    * Fencer
          o Wildcats (force defence)
    * 2nd Wave fighter cover
          o 1826 Naval Air Squadron, Corsairs (10)
          o 896 Naval Air Squadron, Wildcats
          o 898 Naval Air Squadron, Wildcats
          o 804 Naval Air Squadron, Hellcats (10)

[Curval]

I would have loved to join this but will be away from home for it.

From the Dayton Airshow (2003):

Me and Geoffrey *Dicky* Bird.  Dicky was a speaker at the Indy (2003) Con.  He was part of an Air Arm group that bombed the Tirpitz three different times.  I asked him if he hit it and he said "No idea...those smoke pots made it impossible to see."  They were a torpedo squad and were forced to level bomb because the Tirpitz was in a deep fiord.

[dhyran]

I would have loved to join this but will be away from home for it.

From the Dayton Airshow (2003):

Me and Geoffrey *Dicky* Bird.  Dicky was a speaker at the Indy (2003) Con.  He was part of an Air Arm group that bombed the Tirpitz three different times.  I asked him if he hit it and he said "No idea...those smoke pots made it impossible to see."  They were a torpedo squad and were forced to level bomb because the Tirpitz was in a deep fiord.

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great!

thanks for sharing!

[Amaazee]

Will be there this frame.


Salute Dhyran

[CAP1]

we have strong winds from NW ~ 25-35 knots

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dhy

holy crap!!! that's a LOT of wind

[JOACH1M]

Ill be in this!!!!!!!

[pervert]

Had a good time at this tonight! Thanks for putting it on! 

[dhyran]

Had a good time at this tonight! Thanks for putting it on! 

sir, thanks for joining it

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[zack1234]

I thought a Lancaster dropped a cookie on it?

[dhyran]

I thought a Lancaster dropped a cookie on it?

cc but that was another operation, the operation tungsten was based on the Naval forces

[zack1234]

I read that pre atomic bomb metal from sunken ships is used in medical scanners,because it has not been eradiated