With enemy forces holding strategic bases in the UAE B-52 bombers have recently been ordered into the region to shut down the runway, so far the missions have by all accounts suffered 100% loss rates.

Forward scouts and the rare crew members recovered in CSAR operations have told of flak so thick you could walk on it over the Minhad region, with one claiming the thump of the guns firing could be heard from as far away as Abu Dubai.

At the same time long-range strikes into Iran have so far failed to achieve significant damage with one image showing a reported Aotearoan doing what some have claimed is a war Haka on top of the ditched bird while shouting deranged about injections from her Empress Jazzinder the First.