In the event of sudden overwhelming attack on, say, RAF Benson, by, say, the serpent-spawn of hell, do you think that the crews of the Chinook and Puma helicopters stationed there would:
a) Attack the serpent-spawn, even though the helicopters are not really designed for that sort of thing (and I am not sure if they are even armed with anything that would be likely to give serpent-spawn anything other than very momentary pause).
b) be used to evacuate and flee the base, assuming that they have maybe three hours notice, tops, and certainly would not be able to remove everyone living there.
You can assume that they are not getting any orders from the MOD. I've already dealt with them.
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dhampyresa :
In the event of serpent-spawn infesting London and the French using their nuclear submarines to attempt to put a stop to the serpent-spawn before it moves across the Channel, how much of Northern France would become uninhabitable?
a) Attack the serpent-spawn, even though the helicopters are not really designed for that sort of thing (and I am not sure if they are even armed with anything that would be likely to give serpent-spawn anything other than very momentary pause).
b) be used to evacuate and flee the base, assuming that they have maybe three hours notice, tops, and certainly would not be able to remove everyone living there.
You can assume that they are not getting any orders from the MOD. I've already dealt with them.
Supplementary question inspired by
dhampyresa :In the event of serpent-spawn infesting London and the French using their nuclear submarines to attempt to put a stop to the serpent-spawn before it moves across the Channel, how much of Northern France would become uninhabitable?
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I have no idea as to the answer to the other question, other than quite a bit?
*waves magnanimously*
2: I assume you mean the nuclear missile subs, rather than the hunter/killers. The key question is then, probably, how many missiles they use. If both of the subs at sea use all of their 16 missiles each, and spread these evenly over northern France, that's probably enough to make it, at least, pretty unpleasant for a long time.
2) yes. The suggestion was made that if serpent-spawn infested Greater London in a decisive enough manner, the French would probably try to nuke London via their nuclear subs in order to prevent infestation (and that they are likely to be the first to act, since it would be such an immediate threat to them).
So I was trying to work out the likely impact on Northern France of nukes hitting southern Britain (not actually hitting France) Pp points out that they would probably start with sending in their airforce first before resorting to nukes though.
And I am sure that Pp is right, and they would start with their air-launched tac nukes. Limited numbers of these wouldn't create so big a problem for northern France (although the pas de Calais wouldn't be a nice place to live).
No need for nukes. Conventional weapons can destroy a city quite handily. Or if the serpent-spawn travel in clumps, cluster munitions might work. Also blocking the Channel Tunnel, and the ports and airports would probably be the logical first step.
Members of the British armed forces not stationed in London and not in hospital are currently conducting an urgent conversation involving 'the majority of our civilian population is right in the middle of this and we have no plan, what to do'. Although there are some helicopter gunships giving it a go.
The French authorities, however, are in the position of 'strike now and the English casualties will be regrettable but at least they will not be French casualties' and in conversation with dhampyresa last week, we both had to agree that in that situation the French would certainly want to nuke first and ask questions later. :-D
The Scots would certainly feel the same but I don't think the Scots have any independent nuclear capability.
Major military powers of all types are probably watching the situation with concern, but being a little further away, are perhaps less likely to deploy explosives at an hour or so's notice.
Also they swim, so the coast is more of a threat than the Chunnel.
I like a good thorough disaster.