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Would anyone be willing to build a scenario based on the following?:

Scenario Name: Operation Northern Fury
Time and Date: October 30, 1961, 02:00:00 (Zulu)

Friendly Forces:
Primary Country/Coalition: Soviet Union

Bases of Operation:

Airbase: Olenya Air Base, Kola Peninsula, Soviet Union (68.1550° N, 33.4606° E)

Order of Battle:

Aircraft:

1x 3M 'Bison-B' Strategic Bomber

Loadout: 1x AN.602 'Tsar Bomba' Nuclear Bomb

Home Base: Olenya Air Base

Adversarial Forces:
Primary Country/Coalition: United States (Implied)

Bases of Operation:

Airbase: Thule Air Base, Greenland (76.5312° N, 68.7032° W)

Order of Battle (Known and Suspected):

Ground-Based Threats:

Early Warning Radars:

AN/FPS-50 BMEWS Site I: Thule Air Base, Greenland (76.5312° N, 68.7032° W) - Note: This is the primary target and is expected to be active.

Aircraft (Suspected):

F-102 Delta Dagger Interceptors: Potentially operating from Thule Air Base on high alert.

Mission & Objectives:
Geopolitical Situation:
In a tense escalation of the Cold War, intelligence has confirmed that the United States has activated a new Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) site in Thule, Greenland. This site poses a direct threat to the strategic deterrent of the Soviet Union, capable of providing early warning of an ICBM launch and compromising the effectiveness of a retaliatory strike. In response to this aggressive posturing, Soviet high command has authorized a top-secret, high-stakes mission to demonstrate the nation's overwhelming power and resolve. A specially modified Tu-95V bomber has been prepared to deliver the most powerful thermonuclear device ever created, the AN.602, known as the 'Tsar Bomba'. The target is not the BMEWS site itself, but a designated test zone over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The purpose of the mission is twofold: to test the weapon's design and to send an undeniable message to the West about the futility of a first strike. The flight path will take the bomber near the Greenland coast, ensuring the BMEWS site tracks the aircraft, maximizing the psychological impact of the subsequent detonation.

Friendly Mission:
Your mission is to command the 3M 'Bison-B' bomber, designated 'Bear 71', and successfully execute the test detonation of the AN.602 'Tsar Bomba' over the designated target area. You must fly the prescribed course, ensuring you are detected by the American BMEWS radar at Thule, before proceeding to the release point. The success of this mission hinges on the flawless execution of the test and the powerful political statement it will make.

Success Criteria:

Primary Objective: Successfully release the AN.602 'Tsar Bomba' over the designated test zone at the Sukhoy Nos peninsula, Novaya Zemlya (73.8583° N, 53.6444° E).

Secondary Objective: Fly within the detection range of the AN/FPS-50 BMEWS radar at Thule Air Base for a minimum of 30 minutes.

Constraint: The 'Bear 71' bomber must return safely to Olenya Air Base after completing the mission.

I would suggest changing the title, as "Northern Fury" is already used by a very popular series of community scenarios (and now also a book series, based on the scenarios).

You should try yourself

It is very entertaining, even though you learn by trial and error, and frustration, you will learn a lot.

Suggested name: Operation TsB.

Some comments:

What are supposed to do the F-102 Delta Dagger Interceptors?

The AN/FPS-50 in the cold war db is an early ballistic missile detector, but is not able to detect ACs?

73.8583° N, 53.6444° E is water in Arctic Ocean a bit to the west of the site.

So not only are you relying on large language models to invent your scenarios, now you want other people to make them for you? These requests would be reasonable after you put some thought into making sure the scenario design is fun, unique, and makes sense within the context of CMO's constraints. But these chatbot-barfed scenarios (and yes, I've read the other documents you posted on Steam) in the absence of any human oversight frankly aren't that. You should make the scenario yourself and find out what happens.