In January 2025 Iran's leader overturned the fatwa against the acquisition, development, and use of nuclear weapons. In May 2025, indications began to surface of nuclear detonation in remote part of the country. This was followed shortly after by confirmation by the Iranian government that they had detonated their first nuclear device. This test was condemned by the United States, Europe, Israel, and several middle eastern countries and across the middle east contingency plans for such an event were about to be put into action.
This scenario is designed as a sandbox to see what an Israeli, US, or combined strike on Iran might look like. As such, it is up to you the player to determine what aircraft to use, what weapons to arm them with, and what nuclear sites to target. Once you have set your aircraft loadouts you should execute the "Ready All Aircraft" special action to instantly ready all of your aircraft.
This is meant to be a limited strike against the Iranian nuclear program, it is not meant as a general air campaign as seen in Desert Storm or in other conflicts since. You will not get points for damaging or destroying units not related to this objective.
While this scenario is set in 2025 it is intended to be a showcase of capabilities that should be available in the mid-2020s to the early 2030s, hypersonic weapons, UCAVs, more 5th generation fighters, etc.
This scenario makes heavy use of lua randomization for overflight requests, basing rights, etc. It's possible to remove the randomization by using the "Remove Randomization" special action. This will give any randomized action a 100% chance of executing.