Gulf/Caribbean Naval Activity?

[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

[boogiedowndonovan]

Anyone remember the old Harpoon computer game? A few of the convoy escort scenarios, I can't remember which, had the NATO convoys going as far south as the Caribbean.

The US, British and Canada had bases on Bermuda. I could see the personnel "stranded" on Bermuda during T2k.

US had NAS Bermuda, operating P3's and NF Tudor Hill listening post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Bermuda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_NA...int,_1941-1995
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Facility_Bermuda

According to the wikipedia article, Canadian CP-140 Aurora ASW aircraft periodically operated from NAS Bermuda.

British had HMS Malabar, supply station for the RN ship assigned to the Caribbean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ma...t)#HMS_Malabar

Canada also operated CFS Bermuda.

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

[kalos72]

Don't forget St Croix has a LARGE refinery as well...

With such a rich target environment, I would imagine the navies would keep active to some degree.

Or else there is a port somewhere with 3 OSA class patrol boats just looking for a new home. :P

[Apache6]

I don't think there is any cannon coverage. What do you think happened to the base at Gitmo?