Orange Twilight: the Netherlands during the Twilight War and beyond

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Orange Twilight: the Netherlands during the Twilight War and beyond

Orange Twilight is an alternate universe based on the Twilight:2000 role-playing game set during and the aftermath of World War III (the "Twilight War").
 
The Twilight War has it beginning in 1995 when the Soviet Union and the People Republic of China go to war, a year later in late May of 1996, the East German military losses two divisions during fighting in China, angry of the losses suffered and the lack of compassion the Soviet Union has to the loss of two divisions results that a small group of senior officers in the East German Army begin secret talks with a select group of counterparts in West Germany. On October 7th 1996 the West German Bundeswehr crosses the inter-German border and begins attacking Soviet garrison units still in present in East Germany, several days later East German military units join their west counterparts in fighting Soviet forces, the United States and its NATO allies are quickly drawn into a European conflict with the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies resulting in the Twilight War.

Map of divided Netherlands 1998-2007



(Orange) Unoccupied Netherlands with its provisional capital located in the city of Groningen, one of the few large cities in the Netherlands which was not hit by Soviets nuclear strikes during the Twilight War.

(Yellow) Netherlands Military Zone in Bentheim (Dutch: Nederlandse Militaire Zone in Bentheim) in the former County of Bentheim (German: Grafschaft Bentheim), district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony. Garrison of three Jaeger Battalions (light infantry specialized for assault, defense operations and urban warfare) belonging to the Netherlands-German Regiment (Dutch: Nederlandse-Duits Regiment, German: Niederländische-Deutsch Regiment, NDR) located in the Prins Claus barracks in the town of Nordhorn.

(Red) French occupied Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany.

(Blue) The Unione Francais (English: French Union) ore also known as the French-Belgian Union before the absorption of Belgian in the French Republic, its capitol is Paris.

(Brown) Part of the country of Hannover.

(Light Green) Parts of the French puppet state of Westphalia Republic (German: Westfalen Republik).

This is map of former Germany from 1998 to 2007 before the French Republic signed the Peace Treaty of Arnhem in 2007 with the Netherlands ending the French-Netherlands War.



Map showing former Germany and parts of the Netherlands and France from 1998 to 2007

(Orange) Unoccupied Netherlands with its provisional capital located in the city of Groningen.

(Yellow) Netherlands Military Zone in Bentheim (Dutch: Nederlandse Militaire Zone in Bentheim) in the former County of Bentheim (German: Grafschaft Bentheim), district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony. Garrison of three Jaeger Battalions belonging to the Netherlands-German Regiment (Dutch: Nederlandse-Duits Regiment, German: Niederländische-Deutsch Regiment, NDR) located in the Prins Claus barracks in the town of Nordhorn.

(Green) The Free State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern), the second German country formed from the remains of old Germany when it was created in 2001, a year after the end of the Twilight War. It has its capitol located in the city of Munich.

(Purple) The People Republic of Saxony (German: Volksrepublik Sachsen) which came into being in 2003 after Saxony won the Saxony-Brandenburg War and annexed Brandenburg. It capitol is officially is Berlin, but it being destroyed during the Twilight War (1996-2000) it has its provisional capitol in Dresden.

(Blue) The Unione Francais (English: French Union) ore also known as the French-Belgian Union before the absorption of Belgian in the French Republic, its capitol is Paris.

(Red) French occupied Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany.

(Light Blue) The State of Baden-Württemberg (German: Land Baden-Württemberg) is located in the southwest, east of the Upper Rhine. Its has its capitol located in the city of Stuttgart.

(Light Green) The Westphalia Republic (German: Westfalen Republik) is a French puppet state formed in 1999 a year after the French in the aftermath of the Twilight War moved into the Zone Morte from Frankfurt to the Rhur in order to secure what remained of German industry and partly to stop these resources from falling into the hands of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg or Hannover. The capitol of the Westphalia Republic is located in the city of Dusseldorf.

(Brown) The country known as Hannover includes the areas of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein as well as parts of Westphalia, Hesse and Saxony-Anhalt. It has it capitol located in the city of Hannover.

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Service of Special Assignments

The Dienst Bijzondere Opdrachten (English: Service of Special Assignments, DBO) was a Netherlands organization during the French-Netherlands War. Following the provisional cabinet approval, it was officially established on February 26th 1998, a month after the Belgian-French invasion of the Netherlands on January 2nd 1998 with its mission being to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in French-occupied Netherlands and in Vlaanderen.

Relationships

The DBO cooperated fairly well with its civilian counterpart, the Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (English: Internal Security Service, BVD) and its military counterpart the Militaire Veiligheidsdienst (English: Military Security Service, MVD) during war, usually on technical matters as DBO equipment was readily adopted by the Korps Commandotroepen, maritime special operations company of the Netherlands Marine Corps and the Speciale Depot Regiment belonging to the Free Flemish Army.

Locations

DBO maintained serval training, research and development or administrative centers across un-occupied Netherlands.

Operations

The DBO dispatched more than 140 agents into French-occupied Netherlands and in Vlaanderen of which at least 34 were killed. DBO agents arranged a total of 411 weapons and supplies droppings on numerous different sites both in French-occupied Netherlands and in Vlaanderen. DBO agents also supported the local resistance in French-occupied Netherlands and the Flemish Liberation Front (VBF) in Vlaanderen while also inciting revolt and guerrilla activity, hampering French troops movements through sabotage actions and assassinating French military and civilian officials, pro-French Netherlands and pro-French Belgians who worked closely with the French occupation administration.

Dissolution

After the French-Netherlands War had ended with the signing of the treaty of Arnhem in 2007 attempts to keep the DBO in being failed as both the MVD and the BVD made the point that they would be able to take over DBO activaties without a problem, thus DBO was dissolved officially in 2007. Most of its personnel reverted to their peacetime occupations or regular service in the Royal Netherlands Army.

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Flemish Liberation Front

The Vlaamse Bevrijdings Front (English: Flemish Liberation Front, VBF) also known simply as the Flemish Resistance (Dutch: Vlaamse Verzet) was formed by the Flemish government in exile when they began to bring together several resistance groups who were operating in Vlaanderen thereby creating the VBF.

The VBF while official a unified front was in fact made up of several resistance groups, the largest and best organized of them was the Flemish Secret Army (Dutch: Vlaamse Geheim Leger, VGL) who was made up of former officers and soldiers of the former Royal Belgian Army which ceased to exists when it was absorbed into the French Army, the VGL and others followed the instructions of the Flemish government in exile while several others where only part of the VBF due them needing the finance, equipment and supplies, both of which the Flemish government in exile and the Dienst Bijzondere Opdrachten (English: Service of Special Assignments, DBO), a secret service established by the Netherlands to operate in occupied Netherlands and Vlaanderen were able to provide.

After the signing of the Treaty of Arnhem in 2007 which saw the French withdraw their forces from French occupied Netherlands and saw the creation of an independent Vlaanderen, the former Flemish government in exile, now the official established government in Brussels began to disarm and demobilize the VBF, while large numbers of VBF went back to their civilian life, many former members of the VBF enlisted into the newly created Flemish Army, where they together with the former Free Flemish Army personal would form the core of the new Flemish Army.

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Soviet nuclear target list of the Netherlands

This is a list of cities in the Netherlands cities who were targeted by Soviet Nuclear strikes during the Twilight War of 1997 to 2000.

Provincie of South Holland

Alphen ad Rijn

Delft

Dordrecht

Gorinchem

Gouda

Hoek van Holland

Katwijk aan Zee

Leiden

Rotterdam

Den Haag

Provincie of North Holland

Amsterdam

Haarlem

Provincie of Zeeland

Breskens

Terneuzen

Vlissingen

Provincie of Utrecht

Utrecht

Provincie of Gelderland

Zevenaar

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Flemish government in exile

Establishment in Groningen

The Flemish government in exile (Dutch:Vlaamse regering in ballingschap) or also known as the Flemish government in Groningen (Dutch::Vlaamse regering in Groningen) was a government formed in early 2000 in the Netherlands provisional capital located in the city of Groningen by members of the Flemish government who managed to flee to on-occupied Netherlands after the outbreak of the Flemish Independence War in late 1999.

Composition

Initially numbering just four ministers, the Flemish government in exile was soon joined by numerous others. The government in exile comprised both politicians and civil servants in a number of government departments. Most were focused in the Ministries of the Defense, Finance and Foreign Affairs, but with skeleton staff in a number of others. By 2003, there were nearly 800 people working in the government located in the city of Groningen in all capacities.

Flemish refugees

One of the most pressing concerns facing the government in exile in late 1999 was the situation of Flemish refugees in the on-occupied Netherlands. By 2001, at least 3,500 Flemish civilians had arrived in on-occupied Netherlands, many of them without their possessions. The refugees had originally been dealt with by the Netherlands government, however in 2002, the Flemish government in exile with the help and assistance of the Netherlands government established the Bureau for Refugees (Dutch: Bureau Voor Vluchtelingen, BVV) to provide material assistance and employment for Flemish in on-occupied Netherlands.

The Netherlands public was at first exceptionally hostile to Flemish refugees in late 1999, because of the belief that Belgium of which Vlaanderen belonged to had betrayed the Netherlands by joining the French in their invasion of the Netherlands in 1999.

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Free Flemish Forces

The Free Flemish Forces (Dutch: Vrije Vlaamse Strijdkrachten) was formed by the Flemish government in exile in late 1999 with the backing of the Netherlands government. The Free Flemish Forces during its time being active was made up of soldiers ore volunteers from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium who managed to enter unoccupied Netherlands or those who were already living in the Netherlands. The Free Flemish Forces who where deployed mostly out of the on-occupied Netherlands provinces of Zuid Holland, Utrecht and Gelderland where they operating under and alongside the Royal Netherlands Army in their fight against the French in occupied Netherlands and aiding the Flemish Liberation Front (VBF) in Vlaanderen during the Vlaamse onafhankelijkheidsoorlog (English: Flemish Independent War).

After the signing of the Treaty of Arnhem in 2007 the Free Flemish Forces together with the Flemish Liberation Front formed the backbone for the newly created Flemish army.

Free Flemish Army in the Netherlands

Flemish Independent Brigade

Vlaamse Onafhankelijke brigade (English: Flemish Independent Brigade) was a Flemish army brigade size force made up of regiments of battalion size which where:

Regiment Bevrijding (English: Liberation regiment).

Regiment Grenadiers (English: Grenadiers Regiment).

Regiment Jagers te Paard (English:Regiment Mounted Rifles).

Speciale Depot Regiment (English: Special Depot Regiment, SDR) was the special forces of the Free Flemish Army consisting of the Bataljon Parachutisten (English: Parachute Battalion), Bataljon Commando (English: Commando Battalion) and several support units.

Flemish Section of the Royal Netherlands Navy

In 2001 the Royal Netherlands Navy transferred one former Onversaagd-class minesweeper (former HNLMS Onverschrokken who was decommissioned in 1993) and one former Dokkum-class minesweeper (former HNLMS Sittard who was decommissioned in 1997) to the newly established Flemish Section of the Royal Netherlands Navy (Dutch: Vlaamse Sectie van de Koninklijke Marine).

Flemish Section of the Royal Netherlands Air Force

At the time the War of Flemish Independence broke out the then Royal Belgian Air Force was for the most part already integrated into the French Air Force. Despite this more than 9 Belgian pilots managed to flee to unoccupied Netherlands where they would serve with the Royal Netherlands Air Force in the Flemish Section of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (Dutch: Vlaamse Sectie van de Koninklijke Luchtmacht).

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I've read some of the Twilight War a few years ago.
This is an interesting take on a Netherlands in that war. The country really gets a bad deal out of it all, though I guess is far from alone in that.

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Mar 17, 2018 14:58:50 GMT James G said:

I've read some of the Twilight War a few years ago.
This is an interesting take on a Netherlands in that war. The country really gets a bad deal out of it all, though I guess is far from alone in that.

I modified it a bit so the Netherlands has as a fighting change against the French.

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Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean in 1997

The Commander Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean (Dutch: Commandement der Zeemacht in het Caribisch Gebied, COMNLCARIB) is responsible for the activities of all forces in the Caribbean who operate from four bases (3 bases on Curaçao and 1 on Aruba).

The service branches, militias and volunteer corpses who operated in the Caribbean are:

The Royal Netherlands Navy (Dutch: Koninklijke Marine).

The 3 Amphibious Combat Group (Dutch: Derde Amfibische Gevechtsgroep, 3AGGP) of the Netherlands Marine Corps (Dutch: Korps Mariniers) which consist of the 31st,32nd and 33rd infantry companies.

The Netherlands Naval Aviation Service (Dutch: Marine-Luchtvaartdienst, MLD).

The Royal Netherlands Air Force (Dutch: Koninklijke Luchtmacht, KLu).

The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (Dutch: Koninklijke Marechaussee, KMar), military police.

Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Coastguard (Dutch: kustwacht voor de Nederlandse Antillen en Aruba, NA&A CG) (1).

The Antillean Militia (Dutch: Antilliaanse Militie, ANTMIL) which consist of three platoons (2).

The Aruban Militia (Dutch: Arubaanse Militie, ARUMIL) which consist of one platoon (3).

The Curaçao Militia (Dutch: Curaçao Militie, CURMIL) which consist of one platoon.

The Volunteer Corps Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Vrijwilligers Korps Nederlandse Antillen, VKNA) is made up of three volunteer corpses namely the Volunteer Corps Aruba (Dutch: Vrijwilligers Korps Aruba, VKA), Volunteer Corps Curaçao (Dutch: Vrijwilligers Korps Curaçao, VKC) and the Volunteer Corps St. Maarten (Dutch: Vrijwilligers Korps St. Maarten).

Bases and deployments of Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean

Curacao: Parera Naval Base

Parera Naval Base, the main naval base for the Royal Netherlands Navy and headquarters of the Commander Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean where the station ship (Karel Doorman (M) class multi-purpose frigate) HNLMS Van Amstel, one permanent support ship HNLMS Pelikaan (4), six Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats and two P-class patrol boats (5) operated from.

Curacao: Marine Barracks Suffisant

Marine Barracks Suffisant (6), the main marine base which house the 31st and 32nd Infantry Company (7) of the 3 Amphibious Combat Group (8), a detachment of the Antillean Militia (Dutch: Antilliaanse Militie, ANTMIL) which is made up of a small training cadre and one infantry platoon, the Curaçao Militia and the Vrijwilligers Korps Curaçao (VKC) which is made up of some 120 volunteers.

Curaçao: Hato Airfield

Hato Airfield, the main military airfield with two Fokker F-27-M transport aircraft and two P3C-Orions.

Aruba: Savaneta Marine Barracks

Marine Barracks Savaneta (Dutch: Marinierskazerne Suffisant, MSKSUF) houses the 33rd infantry company of the 3 Amphibious Combat Group who also serves as a military education and training unit for the Antillean Militia which is made up of a training cadre and two infantry platoons, Volunteer Corps Aruba (Dutch: Vrijwilligers Korps Aruba, VKA) which is made up of some 100 volunteers and the Aruban Militia.

Sint Maarten

The Volunteer Corps St. Maarten (Dutch: Vrijwilligers Korps St. Maarten) which is made up of some 120 volunteers.

The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee has some 20 personal on the island of Sint Maarten to assist the local police.

Notes

(1) The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Coastguard has approximately 160 personnel. Of these, 140 come from the Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten and 20 from the Royal Netherlands Navy. These 160 consist mostly of personnel actually deployed to carry out operations and the occupation of the Coast Guard bases located on Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.

(2) The Antillean Militia consist of local conscript personnel and a small volunteer cadre numbering some 148 who form three infantry platoons. The Antillean Militia is trained, clothed and equipped by the Marine Corps as (conscript) marines. When mobilized the Antillean Militia will be made up of eight company-sized security detachments each with company strength of 148 men (totaling some 1,184 men) who would be commanded by Netherlands Marine Corps officers and sub-officers.

(3) The Aruban Militia and the Curaçao Militia are unlike the Antillean Militia made up of professional soldiers and have their own officers.

(4) HNLMS Pelikaan (A801) can carry 3 trucks, 6 land cruisers, 2 water trucks, 27 pallets of goods and equipment and a total of 40 marines.

(5) There are four P-class patrol boats who are operated by the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Coastguard (NA&A CG). Two operate out of Curacao, one from Aruba and one patrol boat from Sint Maarten. Named P 1, P 2,P 3 and P 4 they have a displacement of 35 tons fully loaded, a speed of 18 and a complement of 6.

(6) Officially known as Detachment of Navy Base Parera, known until 1978 as Marine Barracks Suffisant (Dutch: Marinierskazerne Suffisant, MSKSUF).

(7) One company consist of a company staff, three infantry platoons, a combat support group and a service support group.

(8) Whit the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet War in 1995 the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps had station in the Caribbean the 21st Infantry Company stationed at Naval Base Parera (twenty-four men) and the 22nd Infantry Company stationed at Marine Barracks Savaneta (twenty-five men) part of the 2 Amphibious Combat Group (Dutch: Tweede Amfibische Gevechtsgroep, 2AGGP). When in July 1996 the Netherlands began to mobilize in responds due the West German Bundeswehr crossing the inter-German border into East Germany the two companies where redeployed back to the Netherlands. The two companies where replaced by the 3 Amphibious Combat Group (Dutch: Derde Amfibische Gevechtsgroep, 3AGGP).

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Aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union in 1997

Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier

The Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier is the first nuclear-powered super carrier to enter into service with the Soviet Navy allowing the Soviet Navy for the first time to have true blue water aviation capability. The Ulyanovsk-class is based upon the 1975 Project 1153 OREL (which never went beyond blueprints). The initial commissioned name was to be Kremlin, but was later given the name Ulyanovsk after the Soviet town of Ulyanovsk, which was originally named Simbirsk but later renamed after Vladimir Lenin's original name because he was born there.

The Ulyanovsk-class has a 85,000 tonnes in displacement (larger than the older Forrestal-class but smaller than contemporary Nimitz-class of the United States Navy). Ulyanovsk is able to carry a full range of fixed-wing carrier aircraft and is similar to United States Navy carriers though with the typical Soviet practice of adding anti-ship missile (ASM) and surface-to-air missile (SAM) launchers. Its hull (watercraft) was laid down in 1988 and was completed by the end of October 1995.

Ulyanovsk

Air group for the Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier

44 fighter aircraft, combination of Sukhoi Su-33 (Su-27K) and Mikoyan MiG-29K fighters.

6 Yakovlev Yak-44 RLD Airborne early warning aircraft.

16 Kamov Ka-27 Anti-submarine warfare helicopters.

2 Ka-27PS Air-sea rescue helicopters.

Riga-class aircraft carrier

The 67,500-ton Riga-class aircraft carrier supports strategic missile carrying submarines, surface ships and maritime missile-carrying aircraft of the Soviet fleet. The class is capable of engaging surface, subsurface and airborne targets. Superficially similar to American carriers, the design is in fact "defensive" in support of SSBN bastions. The lack of catapults precludes launching aircraft with heavy strike loads, and the air superiority orientation of the air wing is apparent.

Riga

Tblisi

Kiev-class aircraft carrier

The Kiev-class carriers are the first class of fixed-wing aircraft carriers built in the Soviet Union of which the first was laid down in 1970. The Kiev-class is partially based on a design for a full-deck carrier proposed in the canceled Project Orel. Originally the Soviet Navy wanted a super carrier similar to the American Kitty Hawk-class. However, the smaller Kiev-class design was chosen because it was considered to be more cost effective.

Unlike American, French ore British carriers, the Kiev-class is a combination of a cruiser and a carrier. In the Soviet Navy this class of ships is specifically designated as a heavy aviation cruiser rather than just an aircraft carrier. Although the ships are designed with an island superstructure to starboard, with a 2/3 length angled flight deck, the foredeck is taken up with the heavy missile armament. The intended mission of the Kiev-class is to support for strategic missile submarines, other surface ships and naval aviation and as such is capable of engaging in anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and surface warfare.

A total of four Kiev-class aircraft carriers where build by Soviet Shipyard No. 444, Mykolaiv between the period of 1970 and 1982.

Kiev

Minsk

Novorossiysk

Baku

Moskva-class helicopter carrier

The Moskva-class is designed for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) vessels, and therefore its weapons and sensor suite are optimized against the nuclear submarine threat. Their strategic role is to defend the Soviet ballistic missile submarine bastions against incursions by Western attack submarines, forming the flagships of an ASW task force. The lead vessel was launched in 1965 and named Moskva; she entered commission two years later. Moskva was followed by Leningrad, which was commissioned in late 1968; there were no further vessels built, reportedly due to the poor handling of the ships in rough seas. Both are conventionally-powered.

Moskva

Leningrad

Cruisers of the Soviet Union in 1997

Battlecruiser

Kirov-class battlecruiser

The Kirov-class battlecruiser was a class of nuclear-powered warship operated by the Soviet Navy who after the United States Navy Iowa-class battleship are the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships (i.e. not an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship) currently in active operation in the world.

Kirov

Frunze

Kalinin

Yuriy Andropov

Dzerzhinsky

Cruisers

Slava-class cruiser

The Slava class are designed as a surface strike ship with some anti-air and ASW capability with the first Slava-class cruiser becoming operational in 1983 and by 1997 there were eight in service with the Soviet fleet.

Slava

Admiral Flota Lobov

Chervona Ukrayina

Komsomolets

Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya

Admiral Flota Sovetskovo Soyuza Gorshkov

Varyag

Sevastopol

Kara-class cruiser

Nikolaev

Ochakov

Kerch

Azov

Petropavlovsk

Tashkent

Vladivostok

Kresta II-class cruiser

The Kresta II-class cruiser is an anti-submarine derivative of the Kresta I-class cruiser. The class has a new anti-submarine missile (SS-N-14), new Surface to Air Missiles (SA-N-3) and advanced sonar.

Kronstadt

Admiral Isakov

Admiral Nakhimov

Admiral Makarov

Marshall Voroshilov

Admiral Oktyabrsky

Admiral Isachenkov

Marshal Timoshenko

Vasily Chapaev

Admiral Yumashev

Kresta I-class cruiser

The Kresta I-class cruiser was designed for a surface warfare role but only 4 ships were built with this configuration. These ships were followed by the Kresta II class cruiser, an anti-submarine derivative.

Admiral Zozulya

Vitse-Admiral Drozd

Vladivostok

Sevastopol

Kynda-class cruiser

The first Soviet missile cruiser class whit their main role being in anti-surface warfare. The design proved top-heavy and was soon succeeded by the larger Kresta I-class cruiser.

Grozny

Admiral Fokin

Admiral Golovko

Varyag

Sverdlov-class cruisers

Sverdlov

Dzerzhinsky

Ordzhonikidze

Zhdanov

Aleksandr Nevsky

Admiral Nakhimov

Admiral Ushakov

Admiral Lazarev

Alexander Suvorov

Admiral Senyavin

Dmitry Pozharsky

Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya

Murmansk

Mikhail Kutuzov

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Royal Belgian Air Force order of battle 1998

The Royal Belgian Air Force (French: Force Aerienne Belge, Dutch: Belgische Luchtmacht) on January 2nd 1998 when the Kingdom of Belgium together with the French Republic began their invasion of the Netherlands had in service a total of 320 jet fighters (including the Mirage MirSIPs and F-16 recon fighters), 69 jet and propeller driven trainer aircraft, 30 transport aircraft (all versions) and 9 helicopters (all versions) in service

No. 1 Wing - Beauvechain, Belgium

No. 349 Squadron “Mace”: 24 General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcons.

No. 350 Squadron “Ambiorix”: 24 General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcons.

No. 2 Wing - Florennes, Belgium

No. 1 Squadron “Stingers”: 24 General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcons.

No. 2 Squadron “Comet”: 24 General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcons.

No. 3 Wing - Liege, Belgium

No. 8 Squadron: 20 Mirage MirSIPs (1).

No. 42 Squadron:12 General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcons (Recon mission) (2).

No. 9 Wing - St Truiden, Belgium

No. 7 Squadron: 16 Alpha Jets.

No. 33 Squadron: 16 Alpha jets.

No. 10 Wing - Kleine-Brogel, Belgium

No. 23 Squadron “Devils”: 24 General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcons.

No. 31 Squadron “Tigers”: 24 General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcons.

No. 15 Air Transport - Wing Melsbroek, Belgium

No. 20 Squadron: 11 Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft.

No. 21 Squadron: 1 Dassault Falco 900B, 2 Dassault Falcon 20, 12 Swearingen Merlin IIIA turboprop aircraft, 2 Boeing 727-29QC and 2 Airbus A310-222.

Elementaire Vliegschool/Ecole de Pilotage Elementaire - Goetsenhoven, Belgium

36 Siai Marchetti SF.260M and 1 SF.260D Single-engined trainer aircraft.

Search And Rescue (SAR) - Koksijde, Belgium

No. 40 Squadron : 4 Westland Seaking helicopters (SAR and transport) and 2 Eurocopter Cougar AS 532U2 helicopters (3).

Heli Flight Marine: 3 Sud-Aviation SA.316B Alouette III (Support to Belgian Royal Navy units/ships).

Notes

(1) The Mirage MirSIP is a upgrade of the Mirage 5 called the called the Mirage System Improvement Program (MirSIP) which included a total of 20 Mirage 5s (15 Mirage 5 BA and 5 Mirage 5 BD) who where upgraded in the 1992 to 1993 period.

(2) 12 F-16s where acquired after the withdrawal of the Mirage 5BR reconnaissance aircraft from service in 1995. Fitted out with Netherlands-built Oude Delft Orpheus underfuselage camera pods.

(3) 2 Eurocopter Cougar AS 532U2 helicopters acquired in 1997.

Royal Belgian Navy order of battle 1998

The Royal Belgian Navy (French: Marine Royale, Dutch: Koninklijke Marine) on January 2nd 1998 when the Kingdom of Belgium together with the French Republic began their invasion of the Netherlands consisted of 4 frigates,10 minehunters and 2 support ships.

Frigates

Wielingen-class frigates

BNS Wielingen (F910)
BNS Westdiep (F911)
BNS Wandelaar (F912)
BNS Westhinder (F913)

Minehunter

Tripartite-class minehunter

BNS Aster (M915)
BNS Bellis (M916)
BNS Crocus (M917)
BNS Dianthus (M918)
BNS Fuchsia (M919)
BNS Iris (M920)
BNS Lobelia (M921)
BNS Myosotis (M922)
BNS Narcis (M923)
BNS Primula (M924)

Command and logistical support ship

Godetia-class command and logistical support ship

BNS Godetia (A960)

Zinnia-class command & logistic support ship for mine countermeasures

BNS Zinnia (A 961)

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Destroyers and Frigates of the British Royal Navy in 1997

Destroyer

Type 42-destroyer or also known as the Sheffield-class destroyer

HMS Birmingham (D86)

HMS Newcastle (D87)

HMS Glasgow (D88)

HMS Cardiff (D108)

HMS Exeter (D89)

HMS Southampton (D90)

HMS Liverpool (D92)

HMS Nottingham (D91)

HMS Manchester (D95)

HMS York (D98)

HMS Gloucester (D96)

HMS Edinburgh (D97)

Frigate

Duke-class frigate ore also known as the Type 23 frigate

HMS Argyll (F231)

HMS Lancaster (F229)

HMS Iron Duke (F234)

HMS Monmouth (F235)

HMS Montrose (F236)

HMS Westminster (F237)

HMS Northumberland (F238)

HMS Richmond (F239)

HMS Somerset (F82)

HMS Sutherland (F81)

HMS Grafton (F80), under conduction at Marconi Marine (YSL), Scotstoun.

HMS Sutherland (F81), under conduction at Marconi Marine (YSL), Scotstoun.

Broadsword-class frigate ore also known as the Type 22 frigate

HMS Broadsword (F88)

HMS Battleaxe (F89)

HMS Brilliant (F90)

HMS Brazen (F91)

HMS Boxer (F92)

HMS Beaver (F93)

HMS Brave (F94)

HMS London (F95)

HMS Sheffield (F96)

HMS Coventry (F98)

HMS Cornwall (F99)

HMS Cumberland (F85)

HMS Campbeltown (F86)

HMS Chatham (F87)

Nuclear-powered fleet and Diesel attack submarines of the Royal Navy of 1997

Swiftsure-class submarine

The Swiftsure class is a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the early 1970s. Six boats were built and commissioned but HMS Swiftsure the first of her class was decommissioned in 1992 due to damage suffered to her pressure hull during trials.

Ships in class

HMS Sovereign (S108)
HMS Superb (S109)
HMS Sceptre (S104)
HMS Spartan (S105)
HMS Splendid (S106)

Trafalgar-class submarine

The Trafalgar-class is a type of nuclear-powered fleet submarine in service with the Royal Navy, the successor to the Swiftsure class. Like the majority of Royal Navy nuclear submarines, all nine vessels were constructed by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria and commissioned in the 1983 to 1993 period.

Ships in class

HMS Trafalgar (S107)
HMS Turbulent (S87)
HMS Tireless (S88)
HMS Torbay (S90)
HMS Trenchant (S91)
HMS Talent (S92)
HMS Triumph (S93)
HMS Triton (S940
HMS Traveller (S95)

Upholder-class submarine

The Royal Navy was going to follow the Oberons with nuclear-powered boats but there was still a role for diesel powered boats, as demonstrated by activities during the Falklands War, and they could be built faster than nuclear submarines. The only yard building nuclear submarines was Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness and it was occupied with the Vanguard class ballistic missile submarines. Accordingly to provide the Royal Navy with a diesel boat for the Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap, Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd developed the Upholder class from the 1970s onwards.

The design was based on their private scheme for a 2400 tonne submarine for export sales. This was combined with lessons learnt from the Oberons and the design of the Trafalgar-class fleet submarines. They were built with teardrop hulls and the fin was built from glass fibre to keep weight down. The Upholder-class is equipped with technology generally found only on nuclear-powered submarines and when the first of her class (Upholder) entered into service in 1992 they class was widely regarded as being among the best diesel-electric submarines in the world. The first of the class (Upholder) was ordered in November 1983 and completed in 1990, and there followed seven more boats (Unseen, Ursula, Unicorn, Undaunted, Upright, Undine and Unity) ordered in 1986 and completed in period of 1991 to 1996. The Royal Navy had planned to order 12 of the class, but this was trimmed first to 10 and then to 8.

Ships in class

HMS Upholder (S40)
HMS Unseen (S41)
HMS Ursula (S42)
HMS Unicorn (S43)
HMS Undaunted (S44)
HMS Upright (S45)
HMS Undine (S46)
HMS Unity (S47)

[lordroel]

West German Naval aviation in 1997

The West German Naval aviation is operated by the Marineflieger,the naval air arm of the West German Navy and had before the invasion of East Germany on October 7th 1997 which was the starting date of the Twilight War a total of 96 fighter aircraft, 17 maritime patrol aircraft, 19 light transport aircraft and 41 helicopters in use.

Marinefliegergeschwader 1 - Schleswig

2 Squadrons of 24 Tornado Interdictor Strike (IDS) each.

Marinefliegergeschwader 2 - Eggebek

2 Squadrons of 24 Tornado Interdictor Strike (IDS) fighters each.

Marinefliegergeschwader 3 “Graf Zeppelin“- Nordholz

2 Squadrons of 9 Breguet Br.1150 Atlantic long-range maritime patrol aircraft each.

1 Squadron of 19 Westland Sea Lynx Mk 88A anti-submarine warfare helicopters.

MFG Marinefliegergeschwader 5 - Kiel

1 Squadron of 22 Westland WS-61 Sea King search and rescue helicopters.

1 Squadron of 19 Do-28D-2 liaison /light transport /pollution control aircraft.

Note 1: MFG 3 supplies aircraft for deployment on warships (Westland Lynx helicopter). MFG 5’s Seakings are for search and rescue, while the Do-28, are used in a liaison role.

Note 2 : Marinefliegergeschwader = MFG (Naval Air Wing).

Note 3 : The Sea Lynx Mk 88A is a upgraded export version of the Mk 88 with Gem 42 engines, under-nose radome with 360° traverse radar and FLIR above nose.

[amir]

I didn’t see soesterberg on the target list- does the 32nd TFS keep flying with the KLU

[lordroel]

Nov 14, 2019 2:50:36 GMT amir said:

I didn’t see soesterberg on the target list- does the 32nd TFS keep flying with the KLU

The 32nd TFS was withdraw back to the United States when there was a breach between the civilian government "Civgov" (the civilian government) and the Joint Chiefs of Staft "Milgov" (the military government) which resulted in a low-intensity civil war, the 32nd TFS sided with Milgov and was withdraw as not to come into conflict with the French who where known to some understanding with Milgov while Civgov was known to be supporting Free Netherlands and its government operating out of the city of Groningen.