Assault on Avalon Dam

ASSAULT ON AVALON DAM
Destruction of the V2 Launch Complex

Combatants:

Allied Forces -------------- VS. ----------A World With No Boundaries

Mission Objectives:

Allied Objectives
-Destroy the V2 launching facility underneath Avalon Dam

Boundless Objectives
-Prevent Allied destruction of V2 facility, launch V2

Background:
After the official end of the Belkan War, the terrorist organization known as A World With No Boundaries bombed the South Belkan city of Lumen, on Christmas Day, 1995.

Shortly thereafter it was found that AWWNB had in their possession a nuclear experimental V2 Multiple Independently-Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The Allies hastily drew up a plan to attack the location of the V2, which resided within Avalon Dam.

Operation Thunderbolt: (B7R - The Round Table)
The Allies call for an air assault to destroy any and all aircraft and air units that have supported the Coup d'etat forces and "A World With No Boundries". This requires Galm Team to traverse the B7R Region enroute to the Avalon Dam Complex. Here the Galm Team engages some of Osea and Belka's finest pilots that had defected. The Ace path you have chosen will determine whcih Ace Squadron you will engage.

Operation Point Blank: (Valley of the Kings)
The Allied plan called for a massive air assault on the ravine leading up to Avalon Dam to allow friendly planes through. Most of the Allied force was used as diversion for the many terrorist aerial forces and advanced SAM systems designed to shoot down any plane which did not appear as a friendly in their Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF) systems.

Many Allied squadrons fell to the constant barrage of fire from the SAM systems and the many terrorist flights defending the installation, however, Ustio's famed mercenary squadron GALM managed to infiltrate Avalon Dam, past the defenses of the ravine and the many terrorist squadrons. Now it was time for the impossible.

Cipher, GALM flight's leader, had to dive into openings in Avalon Dam which housed a complex system of tunnels that housed the V2 systems, which allowed for a launch from the facility. After several dives into the facility, destroying AA fire from AAA guns in the complex and bearing through AWWNB propaganda, Cipher managed to destroy all three V2 systems, which caused for the inability of AWWNB to launch the V2 from Avalon Dam.

Outcome:
With the facility damaged and the V2 systems destroyed, there was no possible way for AWWNB to launch their V2. It seemed the terrorist plot had been completely foiled, however...

SOURCE:
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (The game itself)

ACCREDITATION:
Original article by Ribbon-Red
Updates by Ribbon-Crimson