Part 9: U.S Mission 6 - Southern France
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Medals earned:
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Earned for completing the mission.
Earned for completing the various secondary objectives.
New units commanded:
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NATO heavy attack-helicopter - A129 "Mangusta": This Italian-made helicopter is the ultimate tank-killer. Armed with dumbfire rockets, a 20mmm automatic cannon and HOT guided AT-missiles, it's capable of engaging and destroying even the heaviest enemy armour with ease. But all this power comes at the price of fragility, and enemy AA assets should be priority targets. All helicopters come equipped with flares that can be dropped to distract incoming missiles. Flares, naturally, have no effect on gun-based AA systems.
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NATO heavy tank - Leopard 2(A4): The Leopard is a German heavy tank, and the equivalent in power and armour to the M1A1 Abrams or the T-80U. All that applies to those tanks also applies to the Leopard.
Sweden note: The Swedish Armed Forces operates an improved version of the Leopard 2
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NATO medium anti-air system - Gepard: Mounting two radar-guided 35mm automatic cannons, the Gepard provides very effective short-range defense against enemy helicopters. Since they are not heat-guided, enemy flares have no effect on these units. They are lightly armoured but quite agile. As an emergency measure they can engage ground targets with some limited effect.
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NATO heavy artillery - LARS: The Light Artillery Rocket System fires salvos of 110mm high-explosive unguided rockets, extremely efficient against buildings and emplacement. The blast-radius is quite low, and it has a substantial reload time, so effectiveness against moving targets is limited. The mobile nature of the system makes it well suited to "shoot and scoot" tactics. This is highly recommended, since the massive smoke trails and trajectory of the rockets make the system easily traceable and vulnerable to counter-artillery.
