— EYES ONLY · OPERATIONAL ORDER 006 —
The Tanker War, 1988
Mosquito Fleet · Mission 6 · Sassan Platform · Sirri Island
Operational Briefing
ORDRE OPÉRATIONNEL · 18.04.1988 · IRGCN
PLATEFORME SASSAN
Crewman K. Karami. Boghammar-class fast attack craft.
Hull number 3.
Defend Sassan platform against American attack. Surface
group designated USS WAINWRIGHT, USS SIMPSON, USS BAGLEY.
Air group designated A-6E INTRUDER, two pairs.
Buy the platform's evacuation chopper sixty seconds.
— Cmdr. R. Hashemi
Objective
- Primary: Down at least one A-6E Intruder with the bow-mounted 12.7mm DShK to disrupt the air group long enough for the Sassan platform's evacuation helo to escape.
- The mission cannot be "won" by sinking the American surface group. They are too many. You are one boat.
— Historical Anchor —
Set against Operation Praying Mantis (April 18, 1988) — the largest US Navy surface engagement since World War II. Two Iranian frigates and an oil platform destroyed in a single afternoon.