Coop Rolling Thunder SAR

DATE: 03/03/2021

TIME (GMT): 19:00

MAP(S): Cao Bang Vietnam

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Official

AUTHOR(S): Aris for Brothers in Arms

SLOTS: 71 / 76

RATING: (16)

Operation Rolling Thunder was the codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and represented a major expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Using surface-to-air missiles and radar-controlled anti-aircraft artillery, the North Vietnamese shot down hundreds of American planes over the course of the bombing campaign. As a result, pilots and aircraft weapon systems operators accounted for the majority of the American prisoners of war who were captured and held by North Vietnam.

In this case, an American Grumman C-1A support aircraft is shot down in a neutral zone southeast of the Mekong River.
A company of the 1st Air Cavalry Division undertakes to find and rescue the two pilots. They will be transported to the area by River Patrol Boats of Task Force 116^th.
There will be light coverage by helicopters which, for security reasons, cannot fly to the specific area, which is full of enemy anti-aircraft guns.The weather is very bad with low clouds and a lot of fog.