Operation Whirlwind

DATE: 26/02/2026

TIME (GMT): 19:00

ERA: Cold War

MAP(S): Sumava

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Official

AUTHOR(S): Flappy

SLOTS: 60 / 82

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The year is 1956, and the fragile stability of the post-war world is screaming toward a breaking point. In the heart of Europe, the Hungarian People's Republic—once a bastion of the socialist brotherhood—is hemorrhaging. What the Western press describes as a "spontaneous uprising for liberty," Moscow recognizes as a calculated, violent counter-revolution funded by imperialist agitators. The socialist order is not merely fracturing; it is being torn apart from within. The streets of Budapest, once silent under the watchful eye of the Party, are now choked with the smoke of burning barricades and the defiant cries of those who would see the Warsaw Pact dismantled.

However, the true crisis is not found in the civilian mobs, but in the barracks. Elements of the Hungarian People’s Army (MN), sworn to defend the workers' state, have committed the ultimate betrayal. Entire regiments have defected, turning their Soviet-supplied SKS rifles and BTR-60 armored cars against their own advisors. These self-styled "Revolutionary Guards" have abandoned their oaths, seizing the nation’s nervous system: the primary airfields that guard the frontier, the sprawling rail networks that link the East, and the ancient, brooding capital of Budapest itself. To the Politburo, this is a "contagion" of sovereignty—a political plague that, if left unchecked, will infect Poland, Czechoslovakia, and eventually the Soviet heartland. Moscow cannot, and will not, allow the iron curtain to be breached by its own inhabitants.

To ensure the survival of the Eastern Bloc and the absolute security of the Soviet borders, the High Command has authorized Operation Whirlwind. While the world’s eyes are fixed on the massive armored spearheads of the Soviet Ground Forces—thousands of T-54 tanks currently idling their engines on the Ukrainian border, waiting for the signal to crush the resistance under a million tons of steel—the true success of the intervention rests on a razor’s edge. The heavy armor is too slow to prevent the rebels from blowing the bridges and scuttling the airbases. To paralyze the Hungarian military before they can organize a cohesive national defense, Moscow has turned to the elite: the 7th Guards Airborne Division (VDV) and the shadowed specialists of the Spetsnaz GRU.