What-if questions

[bunn]

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.

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? 

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

1: a combination. Use your three hours to (a) load up some of the helicopters with whatever GPMGs, explosives & whatnot you can, and (b) use the rest to evacuate.

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.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like 1).

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.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, got you. In that case, I think, northern France will still be pretty unpleasant. A large chunk of it will be fairly directly downwind, and in the plume of the fallout; and by the time this has got 100/200 miles east, it will have spread north and south a good bit.

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).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That is, I think Pp is right, and they would send in their air force first. They might not use the air force's nukes straight away, but they might resort to them pretty quickly.