Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
A Dutch mechanized infantry brigade would slice the separatists to ribbons - the only problem would come afterwards, assuming the Russians didn't intervene to protect the scumbags.
... flown there inside leased Russian Antonovs ...
Not anymore, NATO stopped using AN-124s a couple years ago. Now they would be flown there on NATO operated C-17s;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Strat ... CapabilityWinnipegger Winnipegger:
Good point. (:cough: BUK :cough:)
But Antonovs are Ukrainian. Built in and operated from Kyiv.
Yeah, I doubt they would go in unescorted. Flights of Dutch F-16s would 'clear a path' for them so to speak if NATO decided to intervene.
Again, NATO forces against poorly-trained separatists would be a one sided battle just like Gulf Storm was. The amount of training and technology behind NATO would crush them utterly.
The only real problem would be whether or not Russia came to their defence. Even that would be a fairly one-sided battle (although casualties would go up) - they simply don't have numbers, training or anything else on their side except for distance to the battlefield.