Gulf/Caribbean Naval Activity?

[kalos72]

That surely seems like enough fleet to have action...even if its just small skirmishes locally.

I would even imagine a good many of them still active, if not limited to fuel and crew. At this stage of the war, they would be prime assets.

[Olefin]

I am actually working on how the Royal Netherlands Marines and the Navy in the Caribbean may have reacted to the war and the invasion of the Netherlands by France - including some naval action in the Caribbean between them

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Olefin

I am actually working on how the Royal Netherlands Marines and the Navy in the Caribbean may have reacted to the war and the invasion of the Netherlands by France - including some naval action in the Caribbean between them

Would be interested to see what you come up with...it's something I've thought about a few times, especially somewhere like the island of St Martin, which is split between France and the Netherlands.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Barbados is a UK concern, but I can see it being basically neglected during the run up to '97 and then either left to wither and die (somewhat unlikely) or snapped up by the Franco/Belgians.

[kalos72]

Not sure if its a new thing but aren't there a fair amount of oil refinery/fields in the Caribbean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrotrin

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by kalos72

Not sure if its a new thing but aren't there a fair amount of oil refinery/fields in the Caribbean?

Trinidad and Tobago has fairly respectable oil reserves and a refinery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrotrin

Largest refineries appear to be on Aruba and Curacao, both of which are Dutch. Potentially they may have been large enough to warrant a nuke being dropped on them, but if intact and even semi operational could be of great interest to the French.

EDIT. We found the same link...

[Olefin]

Aruba and Curacao's refineries would be prime targets

Gateway to the Spanish Main lists Aruba as the target of the pirates once they had their ships ready - as in the oil rich island of Aruba - that implies the storage tanks and refinery may be intact there

but the omission of Curacao may be a real indication that it got nuked when Venezuela got hit - and considering how close it is that refinery (and the city surrounding it) probably got nailed

you could have a situation similiar to what spared Istanbul and Bremerhaven - i.e. the nuke went short or long and landed in the ocean and not on the island itself