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The Tanker War, 1988

Mosquito Fleet · Mission 6 · Sassan Platform · Sirri Island

Location

Sassan Platform · Sirri Island

Date · Local

Monday, April 18, 1988 — 09:14 local

Duration

60 seconds

Act

Act 2

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.

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