New Scenario for testing Cocos Islands India v Australia 1978

[Jorm]

Cocos Islands



Historical Background

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands, located about one third of the way across the Indian ocean occupy an important strategic location allowing extension of regional force projection, surveillance and secure lines of communication. They are also located close to Indian ocean and south china sea shipping lanes. Its strategic importance is highlighted by the 2400 metre airfield that was constructed in WWII.

In 1978, Due to the very poor treatment of the islanders and the feudal system of governance by the then owners, the Clunies- Ross family, the Australian government forced the islands owners, to sell the island to them using the threat of compulsory acquisition.

This scenario explores what may have happened if the disgruntled Clunies - Ross family instead sold the island to India.


Baggage, R., 1988 “Should Australia Plan to Defend Christmas and Cocos Island”, Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 45.

do a search on this file name for a downloadable PDF of the report.....

All feed back and suggested improvements most welcome

Changes
1. added some extra Indian targets on Cocos
2. Extended ready time on F-111.

[AlexGGGG]

Are the islands CocUs or CocOs? you seem to use both in various places, incl. scenario title and descriptions and briefs.

[Jorm]

Opps

Yes indeed it is Cocos, silly me.
I had a friend stationed there for two years and he aways pronounced it cocUs..... just stuck in my head..

[AlexGGGG]

Next thing, well, NEED MOAR Mk81s on the carrier

Other than that, looks like a fun scenario, while I'm still midway in it.

[Jorm]

you cant handle MOAR Mk81's !!! ;-P

will add....
cheers

[AlexGGGG]

Well, looks like I finished sea part of it, killing most ships, two or three subs, and a SAM, but I can't seem to be able to identify any of the enemy ground units. Apparently there a a few AAAs (S60?) somewhere on land, but I can't spot them. I tried using A-4s, helos, and F-111s for spotting all to no avail.

Finally, at 18 hours to go, I decided not to waste any more aircraft on spotting, and got this (with no scoring? - does the scoring work?)

SIDE: Australia
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LOSSES:
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4x F-111C Aardvark <--- while attacking ships
1x S-2E Tracker <--- ditto
1x Sea King Mk50 [HAS.1 Mod] <--- while trying to spot ground units


EXPENDITURES:
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316x 114mm/45 Mk6 Twin HE Burst [2 rnds]
12x 127mm HVAR Rocket
152x 127mm/54 HE-CVT [HiFrag]
27x 20mm Mk12 x 2 [50 rnds]
6x AIM-9B Sidewinder
12x Ikara [Mk44]
9x Mk46 LWT Mod 2
12x Mk8 Straight-Runner
60x Mk81 250lb LDGP
64x Mk82 500lb LDGP
21x Mk84 2000lb LDGP
16x RIM-24C Tartar
4x Sea Cat Mod 1



SIDE: India
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LOSSES:
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1x 57mm S60
1x Binoculars (Visual)
12x BR.1050 Alize
1x C 60 Mysore [Crown Colony Class, Fiji Group]
4x Canberra B.(I) 66
1x D 115 Rana
1x F 137 Beas
1x F 139 Betwa
2x F 140 Talwar
2x F 33 Nilgiri [Type 12I Leander Class]
1x INS Delhi
1x L-1049G Super Constellation
1x R 11 Vikrant <--- I bombed the carp out of it after I spotted him;
4x S 20 Kursura [PL-641M Foxtrot]
6x SA-2b Guideline Single Rail
3x SA-7a Grail [9K32 Strela-2] MANPADS
3x SDK Polnochny A [Pr.770D]
12x Sea Hawk FB.Mk.5 <-- probably down with their carrier; can't recall killing any of them in the air
4x Sea King Mk42 [HAS.1]
1x Vehicle (Fan Song C [SNR-75M])
1x Vehicle (Spoon Rest C [P-12])


EXPENDITURES:
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114x 102mm/45 Mk16 Twin HE Burst [2 rnds]
75x 114mm/45 Mk6 Twin HE Burst [2 rnds]
14x 20mm Hispano Mk5 x 2 Burst [50 rnds]
21x 20mm/70 Oerlikon Mk7 Burst [20 rnds]
56x 40mm/60 Mk5 Twin Bofors Burst [4 rnds]
82x 40mm/60 Mk7 Single Bofors Burst [2 rnds]
168x 40mm/60 Single Bofors Burst [2 rnds]
74x 40mm/60 Twin Bofors Burst [4 rnds]
250x 40mm/70 Mk5 Twin Bofors Burst [8 rnds]
338x 40mm/70 Mk7 Single Bofors Burst [4 rnds]
458x 57mm S60 HE
24x DSTA 2 Active Range-Only
6x SA-2b Guideline [SA-75M Dvina, 11D / V-750V]
2x SAET-60M WH
8x Sea Cat Mod 1
12x SX-A5 Tiger Cat Mk1



SIDE: Indonesia
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LOSSES:
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1x DE 1033 Claud Jones
1x F 251 Surapati
1x F 252 Pattimura
1x F 351 Riga


EXPENDITURES:
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24x 102mm/45 Mk16 Twin HE Burst [2 rnds]
29x 20mm/80 Twin Oerlikon Burst [20 rnds]
301x 37mm/63 Twin Burst [20 rnds]
113x 76mm/50 Frag
20x 76mm/50 HE
56x 76mm/50 Twin Frag Burst [2 rnds]


SIDE: Fishies
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LOSSES:
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1x False Contact (Medium)

[Jorm]

Nice
when did you go after the Indian carrier , pretty early ? and with the F-111's ?
I've played this trough at least 5 times myself and never went after the CV. very interesting to get playtest results for things i would not have tried .good one !!

Brilliant that you got to bang off a few Ikara's. All your ASW back on the carrier or the subs get close ?

There was a little surprise pack for Christmas Island, ill have to change it i think...
thanks for the very useful feedback

cheers

[Rory Noonan]

Interested to give this one a try, I have been to Cocos Islands a few times when I was working on Christmas Island. Tiny place!

[AlexGGGG]

I sent Orions out early to see what in there. Once they spotted the formation, I figured it must be carrier group, and I sent F-111s after the formation. I am a firm believer in destroying aircraft on the ground, and going after the carrier looked like a logical move.

Subs got pretty close to me, close enough to fire a couple of torpedoes, both misses. Actually it was the other way round - I got pretty close to them - I figured I will move close to destroy the SAM with naval guns, and I did, encountering subs in process. However I must admit I will often fire ASROC or other kind of torpedo in general direction of any unidentified subsurface contact, or a suspect sub location. Fish are not afraid of a torpedo, so fish continue on course and speed; the submarine, however, has to evade - this is how I tell subs from fish. Basically if sonar cannot id the contact quick enough, I will rather kill the contact than continue trying to id. Therefore, my torpedo expenditures are little higher than one might expect.

On the second thought, this must have something to do with the fact I had sonars in passive mode, but no sprint-and-drift. Next time, I will perhaps go with active sonars.

[Jorm]

Interesting that you were going to use naval guns on the island, that was my initial intent when setting up thescenario, but thought id rather leave the execution of the mission to the player.
yeah 1978 sensors are a weird mix of great on the C.F Adams class DDG and not so great for most all else....

thanks for the feedback, very useful !