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]

In emergency, you can get a *lot* of people into a Chinook. This was proved in the Falklands - when the Atlantic Conveyor burned out, the task force was left with precisely one Chinook, which spent the rest of the war being horribly overloaded.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Well, I've killed off enough people already that the residents of RAF Benson are probably neither here nor there. If you really want the spouses and children of RAF Benson to perform a marvelous feat of coordinated evacuation and cram themselves in to a Chinook, then I will allow them to pass.

*waves magnanimously*

[bunn.livejournal.com]

In fact, I may even give them a dramatic escape, rather in the manner of the civilian fleet heroically defended by HMS Thunder Child. That would be good.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I appreciate your graciousness.