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Blood of Patriots: Episode VIII- Shock and Awe, Part III

Just South of Kingston, Jamaica, altitude: 1,000ft
Colmillo Squadron, Kommerian Royal Air Force
January 3, 0722 hours

Colonel "Bote" Menendez and his wingman, Captain “Flaco” Fredrick, followed the exhaust trail of the trio of sub-launched cruise missiles, barely slower than sound. Five more pairs of F-18 fighters were stacked up behind them, with the swarm of F-5s even further behind.
At their speed, Bote and Flaco’s targets quickly came into view; moored where they were abandoned by the Navy. Fast attack ships ARK Kingston and ARK Havana.
Four shapes dropped from the wing-mounted hardpoints and fell toward the ships as the F-18s banked in opposite directions and flew off. The shapes, oblong canisters, split open; releasing a swarm of bomblets that showered the ships and the pier they were moored to like especially angry rain. A cascade of tiny explosions rocked the ships, blasting off weapons, equipment and rebels, and leaving the ships crippled.

Two more F-18s, piloted by Lieutenants “Risitas” Santana and “Odiador” Peña dropped another four cluster bomb canisters on the former Territorial Guard quarters attached to Port Royal Naval Station. These two continued on past the Navy Base, thundering over the city at just under the speed of sound; rattling windows, roofs, and tooth fillings with the unmistakable sound of angry warplanes.

Six more F-18s dropped high-explosive bombs on various military targets within Port Royal Naval Station and Sir Norman Manley airport; destroying armored vehicles, fuel bunkers, and radio equipment. These F-18s also buzzed Kingston, one pair breaking the sound barrier; cracking windows and eardrums in their wake. Another pair flew so low that one of them severed a radio antenna from a civilian roof with their wing.

Captain “Mago” Bolivar and Lieutenant “Mierda” Salinas had drawn the longest straws though, and would be the ones to deliver the coup de grâce on Port Royal Naval Station. The two women each dropped a single GBU-24 thermobaric GPS-guided bunker buster bomb on the base’s twin armories. The underground weapons caches both high-order detonated as thousands of rounds of ammunition, dozens of missiles, and several tonnes of high-explosives went up at once. One of the smaller vessels that the rebels captured, the patrol boat ARK Toco was caught in the blast and torn in two; sinking within two minutes.
The explosions didn’t completely destroy the base, the caches were better designed than that, but dozens of rebels were killed or thrown off their feet. Windows across Kingston were shattered, and debris and ash rained down.

Across Southern Jamaica
3rd Tactical Wing, Kommerian Royal Air Force
January 3, 0730 hours

With the F-18s clearing the way of major threats, the near-eldery F-5E Super Tigres of 3rd Wing were clear to attack their targets.
The highway leading to Sir Norman Manley airport was struck by several cratering bombs, rendering it impassible without repair. Bridges leading in and out of the city were dropped into Hope River and the Rio Cobre by 250kg bombs. With next to no traffic on major highways, the 3rd was free to bomb the Mandela Highway and the Port Kingston Causeway into so much gravel.
Several flights of F-5Es took their weapons past Kingston entirely to savage the A1 and Highway 2000, cutting off the Republican advance on Kommerian positions around Montego Bay.

Their missions completed, the thirty-six fighters of both wings flew on to Air Station Guantanamo in Cuba, where they will be based for the foreseeable future. None of the Kommeria jets had received threatening damage, and only a few had sustained any fire at all. The Kommerian Air Force had dropped over fifty tonnes of ordnance without sustaining a single casualty.