Command: Modern Operations

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12 Oct @ 3:11pm
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FleetEx '83-1'

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This is a project still in work but feel free to take it and make it what you want.

FleetEx 83 was a naval exercise that took place between March 29 and April 17 of 1983 in the northern Pacific Ocean near the Aleutian Islands. Three carrier battle groups participated in the exercise, consisting of the carriers Enterprise, Midway, and Coral Sea and their respective escort ships. According to Admiral Robert L. J. Long, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, FleetEx 83 comprised “the largest fleet exercise conducted by the Pacific Fleet since World War II.”The combined task force consisted of approximately 50 ships, 23,000 crew members, and 300 aircraft.
The exercise lasted approximately two weeks and was conducted in the Northern Pacific, within flight range of the Soviet Union coast. The purpose of the mission was to intentionally provoke the Soviet Union into responding so that the US forces could study their response, tactics, and capabilities as well as demonstrate the effective operations of a three-carrier battle force in joint and combined operations across multiple service branches in both the United States and Canada, in a high-threat environment.The exercises were extremely successful and effective in integrating the combined forces of the United States Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Canadian Maritime Command and Australian naval forces into an effective battleworthy whole. Despite poor weather, the fleet excelled throughout the exercise.
4 Comments
Quixotic 24 Oct @ 4:57pm 
Been working on a Fleetex 83 scenario for a long time, even done quite a bit of original research to see it done, I'm super happy to see someone actually finished one! It's a really fascinating "what if" situation, a good spin on the 80s "cold war gone hot" since it's in a theater nobody was expecting.
joao.feio.almeida 21 Oct @ 11:37am 
On the run to KAL 007 incident and Able Archer 83, one of the most dangerous years of our lives.
Many thanks for the scenario. Some fresh air on this workshop where NATO (!!!) is a current presence on far faraway shores in absurd and fully ahistorical settings.
History is not a revered topic nowadays...
Madog_Llewellyn  [author] 20 Oct @ 6:37am 
It took me 2-3 days or 12-18 hrs of time... The Russian's should have pretty accurate OB... but the USN units are me taking liberties and modifying the ships some.
eheines14 17 Oct @ 10:33pm 
Amazing build, how long did this take you?